Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand ...

Socrates is perhaps the most famous philosopher in the Western intellectual tradition. He raised fundamental questions, such as 'what is justice?' ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

Pythagorean thought, from the civilisation of Ancient Greece, is still prevalent in religion, poetry, philosophy, music, architecture and the class...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on suc...

A timely book for today's world, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations explores how to endure hardship, how to cope with change and how to find something p...

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000 year old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we...