History of Western Philosophy

'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your ...

'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced fro...

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do any...

With this volume, we present a collection of writings, each offering their own novel perspective regarding the question of realism. Realism has und...

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could comma...

When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly d...

An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Roman...

Amid the so-called crisis of metaphysicsof the last several hundred years, philosophers in the 20th century re-encountered and began a reappreciat...

From the depths of their existential angst, these profound pooches ask some of the most pertinent questions of their time. ...

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Ka...

Platos Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philos...

This lively book offers a wide-ranging study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood from Homer through Plotinus. A. A. Long anchors his discus...

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the ...

The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic,...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhe...

Typically, mystery does not receive much attention in philosophy. Although Heidegger and other key philosophers have made a place for mystery in ph...

Plato versus Parmenides investigates the concept of genesis, or coming into being, a problem that has absorbed the greatest philosophical thinkers....

Typically, mystery does not receive much attention in philosophy. Although Heidegger and other key philosophers have made a place for mystery in ph...

Naturalisms Philosophy of the Sacred: Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana offers an interpretation of the sacred based on the ordina...

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Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Becketts library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosophers relevance to the Nobel laureates work i...