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The World as Will and Representation

Volume 1

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy

Arthur Schopenhauers Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the

aesthetics, ethics, german, idealism, metaphysics, psychology

Kierkegaards Philosophy: Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age

An Introduction to the Writings of One of the Worlds Most Important Thinkers

John Douglas Mullen

Philosophy

Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ours

critic, ethics, existentialism, religion

Plutarchs Lives

Plutarch

History

Plutarchs Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world

ancient, biography, epistemology, ethics, hellenic, platonist, roman

The Politics

Aristotle

Philosophy

Aristotles Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows hi

ancient, ethics, greek, platoism, politics

Works of Spinoza

Political Treatise, Theologico-politiacal Treatise

Baruch De Spinoza

Philosophy

The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of

enlightenment, ethics, latin, rationalism

Makers of Rome

Plutarch

History

These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Romes greatest s

ancient, emperor, epistemology, ethics, hellenic, platonist, roman, rome

The Rise and Fall of Athens

Nine Greek Lives

Plutarch

History

The nine Lives translated here and arranged in chronological order follow the history of Athens from the legend

ancient, epistemology, ethics, greece, greek, hellenic, platonist, roman

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

Philosophy

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the

ethics, humanism, liberal, linguistics, psychology

Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good

Mark Matousek

Science

Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil.

anthropology, ethics, philosophy