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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 ...
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'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range ...
If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and ...
Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist, Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, whose work ...
Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society ...
When The Stone Reader?a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy series?first published, the world urgently needed insight ...
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumatic.
Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always ...
'This is a superb new translation that is remarkably accurate to Plato's very difficult Greek, yet clear and highly readable. The notes are more ...
The inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C.S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further ...
'Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions - for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?' - La Stampa
What lies at the ...
The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice.
In his timely new book ...
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 ...
Why life's shortness - more than anything else - is what makes it meaningful.
Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a ...
