Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

In this companion to his best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran explores the essential themes of this much-loved Indian scripture.

The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.

Easwarans best-selling translation of this classic Buddhist text The Dhammapadais reliable, readable, and profound.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

In the reincarnation myth in Book X of Plato's Republic, the unnamed first soul, who has lived a good life and has been rewarded in the afterlife, chooses a new life and fate, and chooses catastrophically badly.

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic.

Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people.

This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.

Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Ubergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum.

The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in relation to one another.

The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in relation to one another.

In the reincarnation myth in Book X of Plato's Republic, the unnamed first soul, who has lived a good life and has been rewarded in the afterlife, chooses a new life and fate, and chooses catastrophically badly.

In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums-by asserting some very strange things.

From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic.

The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.

Easwarans best-selling translation of this classic Buddhist text The Dhammapadais reliable, readable, and profound.

In this companion to his best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran explores the essential themes of this much-loved Indian scripture.

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic.

Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Ubergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum.

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years.

This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.

Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people.

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human relationships, society and leadership - and shaped the whole tradition of Western philosophy.

¿Es la ficción un discurso interpretativo de la realidad?

Desde hace dos milenios, los Diálogos de Platón constituyen un hito ineludible de la filosofía occidental.

Did the ancient Greeks—celebrated as the founders of Western rational thought—once offer human lives to their gods?

¿Qué significa vivir bien y alcanzar la verdadera felicidad?

What questions define a good life-and a just society?

Discover the full works of Plato-one of the greatest philosophers in history and the foundational voice of Western intellectual tradition.

El estoicismo es un modo de vida, una práctica filosófica que implica un trabajo sobre sí, un fortalecimiento interior que debe llevarse a cabo con perseverancia y paciencia.

Marcia era una mujer romana famosa por su fortaleza y coraje.

Epicteto, uno de los más insignes representantes del estoicismo romano, nos dejó un legado breve y directo, pero también brillante, rotundo e imperecedero.

Una seleccion contemporanea de las cartas de Seneca a Lucilio.

Una seleccion contemporanea de las cartas de Seneca a Lucilio.

Este texto, publicado en 1925, se sitúa en una tendencia de escritura del pensamiento que tuvo su inicio, quizás, en la década de 1910 con los libros de aforismos de José María Vargas Vila.

La obra que fundó la teoría política occidental y sigue dando forma a nuestro modo de entender la ciudadanía y el poder.

Der Kern dieser Studie der – traditionell als unbefriedigend angesehenen – Toposlehre des Aristoteles liegt darin, die überlieferten, teils fragmentarisch gebliebenen, teils offensichtliche Inkonsistenzen aufweisenden Textzeugnisse zur Toposlehre (Kategorienlehre, Physik) systematisch als Zeugnisse für die Momente der von Aristoteles vollzogenen Denkbewegung zu interpretieren und nicht nur als Teil- oder Bruchstücke des »Aristotelischen Systems«.

¿Qué es filosofía?

"La excelencia no es un acto, sino un hábito.

Mit den Paradoxen der Stoiker richtet Marcus Tullius Cicero ein ebenso elegantes wie scharfes Gedankenspiel an seinen Freund Marcus Brutus.

En la mejor tradición de denuncia del existencialismo de Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus e Ionesco, Conciencia del tiempo existencial es un grito desgarrador de rebeldía ante una humanidad que parece haber perdido el rumbo.