Arthur Schopenhauer 
Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings [PDF ebook] 

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and wha …

This title, first published in 1973, brings together a variety of papers by Israel Scheffler, one of America’s leading educational philosophers. The essays each stress the importance of critical thou …

Playwright, novelist, political theorist, literary critic and philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) remains an iconic figure. This book examines his philosophical ideas and methods. It is an introd …

Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we seek to avert the arrival of old age using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. …

The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy »s greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it f …

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle  »does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain ». Phantasia in Aristotle »s Ethics investigat …

God and fictional objects are central topics within philosophy, but rarely do the respective discussions overlap. Until now the two fields have remained independent. Applying the debate about fiction …

Tracing a dialectical path, The Maturing of Monotheism emphasises the plausibility of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and kindred forms of monotheism and responds to anti-theistic challenges of our day. T …

First published in 1999, this volume represents Kit-Man Li’s attempt to wrestle with the complicated issues and ideas drawn from Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Weber’s studies of western c …

Originally published in 1999, Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds explores human relations and the issues raised by one immensely influential response to the problems generated by the claims ab …