Жанр "Философия. Религия"

When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation

Very...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a...

Diogenes, Julian

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics

From their founding in the fifth century...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge,...

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously...

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives...

This fresh and brilliant history of how philosophy became established in English presents a new form of philosophical...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from...

One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained...

Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek...

'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell

Published shortly after...

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and...

Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life

This landmark...

Mill John... , Bentham...

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of...

Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic...

Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free...

Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature…

The I Ching is a book of oracles containing...

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this...

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times

What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us?...

'Wealth and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of...

''Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. "
First written during the sixth...