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Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be ...
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity.
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers ...
Considered othe Voltaire of his timeo, Bertrand Russell was a fearless iconoclast who stood unbowed before political and religious leaders; his disdain for conventional thinking ...
New translation for Penguin Classics
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD ...
Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest ...
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought ...
Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of ...
Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay
Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present ...
Five hundred years after his death, Niccolo Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican ...
Isaiah Berlin was one of the great thinkers and most electrifying speakers of his time. A magnetic public intellectual and beacon of liberal philosophy, he ...
The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's ideological, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible.
In these troubled times, even ...
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts ...
'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of ...