At the end of the eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several...

The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's...

Euthydemus, written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists.In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a...

Epicurus' Epistle to Menoeceus is a summary of the ethical teachings of Epicurean philosophy written in the epistolary literary style, and addressed to a...

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what...

Written by a Nobel Prize winner philosopher Bertrand Russell, 'Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays' was first published in the year 1910. This book consists articles...

A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his...

Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction, and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, a revision of an earlier effort, A Treatise of Human Nature. This book has...

Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. The Greek spectators, by looking into...