Aristotle and Aquinas - Pascal - Descartes and the Cartesian revolution - Hume - The logical and the psychological - Plato and Locke; Kant - Leibniz - The soul.
Bryan Magee discusses the greatest Western philosophers with fifteen leading contemporary writers and thinkers. The book begins with the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the writings of Plato, and...
Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.Considered to be one of the most...
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy—the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy...
This important new book analyzes the position of women in the writings of the major political philosophers. The authors argue that the moral status of women both affects and is affected by the...