Edited, with introduction, by Bernard Williams.

Provides a flexible resource which has been developed from research into the needs of PSE teachers. This full-colour core text for Key Stage 4 PSE can also be used or adapted for General Studies use.

A new translation and edition of this important and influential statement of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Claims that while we are in many ways different from the Greeks the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. This book argues that we are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we grasp our differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery.

New edition of the Meditations with introductions by John Cottingham and Bernard Williams.

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers. This collection of essays addresses many of the core subjects of political philosophy: justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself.

Presenting a critique of moral theory from Kant onwards, the author, one of the greatest philosophers of his generation, reorients ethical theory towards 'truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life'. He explores and reflects upon the most difficult problems in contemporary philosophy.

This classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers, not only analyses Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search.

A collection of essays, addressing the core subjects of political philosophy such as justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself.

Explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. This book identifies two basic virtues of truth, accuracy and sincerity. It describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them.

Utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice.

A collection of essays on the history of philosophy. It covers subjects such as the sixth century BC to the twentieth AD, from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche.

Written in line with the short course GCSE specifications, starting in September 2001, this work is developed after market research into what teachers need from a short course textbook. It is illustrated throughout and has passages, excerpts and references to the belief systems of all the major religions.

Covers a range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett.

What can, and what can't, philosophy do? What are its ethical risks - and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? This book addresses these questions and presents a vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy something that counts as getting it right.

A collection of essays on the history of philosophy. It covers subjects such as the sixth century BC to the twentieth AD, from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche.

A new translation and edition of this important and influential statement of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams.

Like the two earlier volumes of Bernard Williams's papers published by CUP, Problems of the Self and Moral Luck, this book will be welcomed by all readers with a serious interest in philosophy.