The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius, to which are appended the Treatise on rhetorical invention, The Orator, Topics, On Rhetorical Partitions.

The Enchiridion or Manual of Epictetus is a guide on Stoic philosophy and ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. The book...

The Discourses are a series of extracts of the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus written down by Arrian c. 108 AD. It is a guide for the advanced student of Stoicism to...

At the end of the eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several...

The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's...

Euthydemus, written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists.In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a...

Epicurus' Epistle to Menoeceus is a summary of the ethical teachings of Epicurean philosophy written in the epistolary literary style, and addressed to a...

More Charles Kuralt's American Moments takes us on a wonderful, joyous exploration of Americana with this second volume of never-before-available spoken-word accounts of what...

Written by a Nobel Prize winner philosopher Bertrand Russell, 'Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays' was first published in the year 1910. This book consists articles...

A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his...