Category - Philosophy

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a short introduction to the whole of his philoso...

Descartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a p...

A major treatise on moral philosophy by Aristotle, this is the first time the Eudemian Ethics has been published in its entirety in any modern la...

Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic ...

With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion fo...

Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is the most widely read novel of its time. A young...

"The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love." So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life its...

Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the...

Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes's Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including...

These new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato's remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events...

For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal le...

An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. AD 475-525) was also an exceptional Greek scholar and it was to the Gre...

Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. Hackforth A translation with introduction and commentary of Plato's Phaedo. This celebrated ...

Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneousl...

Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with...

Diogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior wer...

The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants...

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s th...

Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophic...