John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached...

Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its...

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and...

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks...

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the...

The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King...

Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his...

'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'.
Darwin's theory of natural selection...

This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and...

The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years. Such is his importance that the...

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the...

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description'...

Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of...

With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle...

Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the...

Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson. The two political classics in this book...

The three works in this collection, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, show him at his most stimulating and...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy...

Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario.
John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential...