History of Western Philosophy

Advaita Vedanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history--a history closely interwoven with that of medieval ...

Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson pla...

Ruth Boeker offers a new perspective on Locke's account of persons and personal identity by considering it within the context of his broader philos...

Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and m...

Stephen Langton ( 1228), later Archbishop of Canterbury, was a prominent master of theology, belonging to the first generation of scholars working ...

As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author wh...

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the...

An argument for why Platos Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws,...

In Plato's Letters, Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive note...

The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, reve...

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philos...

This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteen...

Unlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version...

For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex phil...

A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) h...

Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat...

The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojty?a/John Paul II. Under the a...

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Tradit...

A provocative reassessment of Heideggers critique of German Idealism from one of the traditions foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Weste...