Offers an introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organised around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This work is suitable for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them.

Deftly introduced and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the translation of the complete work, Lombardo and Addiss provide the reader with a measure of interaction with the

Features the central principles of what is broadly known as political liberalism.

Illustrates the origins, progress, and unfulfilled republican promise of the Latin American Wars for Independence (1780-1850).

This new translation of a short, classic, early work of Aquinas, which nevertheless offers an elegant and sophisticated exposition of many themes to which he returned in later works, offers more the reader more aids -- including notes and a commentary -- than does any other translation.

This new translation of a short, classic, early work of Aquinas, which nevertheless offers an elegant and sophisticated exposition of many themes to which he returned in later works, offers more the reader more aids -- including notes and a commentary -- than does any other translation.

This edition includes the entire surviving corpus attributed to Plato in antiquity. In addition to the texts, it contains introductions to the works, discussion on the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and guidance on reading and studying Plato.

Features introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Hause.

Features introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Hause.

Since its publication in 1974, scholars throughout the humanities have adopted G M A Grube's masterful translation of the Republic as the edition of choice for their study and teaching of Plato's most influential work. In this brilliant revision, C D C Reeve furthers Grube's success both in preserving the subtlety of Plato's philosophical argument and in rendering the dialogue in lively, fluent ..

An introduction that places the underground man in the historical context of nineteenth-century modernity's movement toward secularism, examines his psychological dynamics, and identifies the developments in Russian intellectual life that the work parodies and criticises.

Part 1 of the 'Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences' with the 'Zusatze'. Translated, with introduction and notes, by T.F. Geraets.

A translation of the Mengzi (Mencius) that provides some of the most frequently studied portions of the work along with relevant passages from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi - one of the most influential and insightful interpreters of Confucianism. It includes a glossary and bibliography.

The Classic Writings.

This is a translation of three works by Mirandola: On the Dignity of Man , a document of early Renaissance humanism; One Being and the One , a treatise on the relationship between unity and being; and Heptaplus , an interpretation of the first verses of Genesis .

A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which ...

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's 'Utilitarianism' includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.

Subtitled 'The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection'. Edited, with introduction, by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn.Provides a magisterial overview of all of Darwin's ideas in a brief and useful format.

Presents translations of five dialogues from Plato, as well as additional notes on history and mythology.