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The Philosophers’ Library f eatures the most important philosophy manuscripts and books as stepping stones to take your through the history of philosophy.  By cataloguing the history of phi …

Originally delivered as a set of lectures at Manchester College ‘On the Present Situation in Philosophy, ‘ ‘A Pluralistic Universe’ is a classic of philosophical thought. In it, William James explore …

Francis Hutcheson’s first book, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue , was published in 1725, when its author was only thirty-one, and went through four editions during his …

Written between 1873 and 1876, The ‘Untimely Meditations’, or ‘Thoughts out of Season’ is a collection of four essays by famed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In the first essay ‘David Strauss: the …

What, exactly, is human nature? What makes humans different from animals (if there is any difference)? In this book, Howard Kainz presents a philosophical analysis of the various concepts of human na …

Philosophy is the quest for a life that is fully alive. Drawing on the insights of philosophers through the ages, The Way of Philosophy clarifies what it means to live life intensely. It exposes the …

Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration. An essential guide for both philosophers and Trekkers, Star Trek and Philosophy combines a philosophical sp …

Gershom Carmichael (1672–1729) was the first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, preceding Hutcheson, Smith, and Reid. He defended a strong theory of rights and drew attention …

The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks is one of the major products of the Scottish Enlightenment and a masterpiece of jurisprudence and social theory. Drawing on Adam Smith’s four-stages theory of h …

Elements of Criticism is Kames’s most influential work. When it first appeared, in 1762, it was the most comprehensive philosophical work on “criticism” in English, and it was published in five editi …