'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.

Included in this new edition, along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, are Kennedy's correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews of the book, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing ...

As a result, this collection has a coherence and internal development that makes it comparable with a good monograph."—Christopher Gill, University of Exeter

In this third edition, Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in social and political philosophy, clarifying misunderstandings of Hart's project and highlighting central ...

The works of the earlier Stoics survive only in fragmentary quotations from other authors, but from the Renaissance until well into the nineteenth century, Stoic ethical thought was one of the most important ancient influences on European ...

The dialog in Greek with introduction, notes and appendices in English

This new edition contains Margaret Canovan’s 1998 introduction and a new foreword by Danielle Allen.

And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient religion and philosophy. Yet the clarity and ease of the work's style are deceptive.

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THE argument for animal rights, a classic since its appearance in 1983, from the moral philosophical point of view.