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In this practical, refreshingly optimistic guide, philosopher William B. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with everything from the everyday stresses ...
A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as The Philosopher Meditations is a series of personal journals written ...
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin ...
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics ...
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 ...
Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness.
He argues that happiness ...
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and ...
The Myth of Sisyphus is one of the most profound philosophical statements written this century. It is a discussion of the central idea of absurdity ...
A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read.
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is ...
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly ...
'Splendid . . . The Precipice is a powerful book, written with a philosopher's eye . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious ...
What are the secrets to a contented life?
One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers ...
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do - but it is also the closest you can come to divinity ...
'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.' Kant
In today's increasingly fractured world of oppression and uncertainty, Kant's moral philosophy ...
'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.'
So indeed it would ...
