Philosophy

translated by Robert F. Dobbin 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in ...

translated by R.J. Hollingdale In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobi...

Published shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a ...

translated by Desmond M. Clarke Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty--even to deny those things that seemed most...

translated by D.C. Lau Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defend...

translated by Michael Grant Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is trans...

translated by Martin Palmer The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure of C...

Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many wa...

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athen...

Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In hi...

The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and...

translated by Michael A. Scarpitti and R. Kevin Hill New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and c...