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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also ...
'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of ...
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private ...
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing ...
There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deserve-that we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a ...
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan ...
Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas
Written by an intellectual Roman ...
Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in the heavens ...
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 ...
DISCOVER THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ANCIENT STOICISM
Since Roman antiquity, Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters have been one of the greatest expressions of Stoic philosophy ...
From the bestselling philosopher, a gripping history of science, thought, life on earth and the human mind - and what we might know in the future ...
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely ...
Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life.
Few ancient works have been ...
This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran.
In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus ...
Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how ...