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'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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings'Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on ...
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 ...
'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions ...
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 ...