Selected Letters
10 best books like Selected Letters (Seneca): Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, Four Comedies, Logical Positivism, The Thomas Paine Reader, Selected Essays, 12 Books That Changed the World, Le coq de bruyère, The Frege Reader, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68
| Author | Anthony A. Long |
| ISBN | 0199245568 |
The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient philosophy, gives the definitive presentation of the...
| Author | Plautus |
| ISBN | 0192838962 |
Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid dialogue, bawdy humor, and irreverent characterizations...
| Author | A.J. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0029011302 |
This collection of essays is well-formatted, detailed yet not impossible to understand, and gives a great general overview of the philosophical movement known as logical positivism that dominated Western philosophy for the first half of the 20th century. Ayer's choice in essays gives the reader...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
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12 Books That Changed the World
| Author | Melvyn Bragg |
| ISBN | 0340839821 |
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence...
| Author | Michel Tournier |
| ISBN | 2070372294 |
Comment le Père Noël donnerait-il le sein à l'Enfant Jésus ? L'Ogre du Petit Poucet était-il un hippie ? Un nain peut-il devenir un surhomme ? Est-il possible de tuer avec un appareil de photographie ? Le citron donne-t-il un avant-goût du néant ?À ces questions - et à bien d'autres plus graves...
| Author | Gottlob Frege |
| ISBN | 0631194452 |
This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include all of his seminal papers and substantial selections from all three of his major works. It is intended to provide the essential primary texts for students of logic, metaphysics and philosophy of...
| Author | Epictetus |
| ISBN | 0199595186 |
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice...
| Author | H.H. Scullard |
| ISBN | 0415025273 |
I enjoyed reading (or maybe more accurate--I enjoyed having read) H. H. Scullard's masterpiece. Scullard's first publishing of the book was in 1959, and he updated the information and republished in 1963, 1970, 1976, and 1982. In fact, what prevented further publishing was Scullard's death in 1983....
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0875484433 |
I learned that metaphysical inquiry has stalled due to questions about epistemological methods; learned that quibbling over the ways to reason can sometimes keep us from moving the discussion forward; was struck by the argument that statements of belief are statements of fact (from the perspective...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0192825127 |
'But I must stop now, I can no longer speak for tears--and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.'
Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world: he dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defence. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion:...
| Author | Daniel N. Robinson |
| ISBN | 1565853687 |
Daniel Robinson is my favorite Great Courses lecturer. His wit, humility, and brainpower bring a fun edge to every half hour in this 48 lecture series on the history and philosophy of psychology. The lectures begin in Ancient Greece when humanity first began a systematic evaluation of our behavior....
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings
| Author | Emmanuel Levinas |
| ISBN | 0253210798 |
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative...
The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic
| Author | Mike Ashley |
| ISBN | 1780339917 |
Even after finishing this book I cannot discern in much detail as to what are the distinguishing characteristics between dark and light ( the possible antithesis of dark) magic. The stories are of different shades where the magic ranges from overt, visible and dramatic magic to subtle and insanely...
OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 2
| Author | Dave Shreiner |
| ISBN | 0321335732 |
OpenGL is a powerful software interface used to produce high-quality, computer-generated images and interactive applications using 2D and 3D objects, bitmaps, and color images.The OpenGL® Programming Guide, Fifth Edition, provides definitive and comprehensive information on OpenGL and...
| Author | Karl N. Llewellyn |
| ISBN | 0195368452 |
For over seventy years, there has been one book that law students have read to prepare for what they were about to encounter. That book is The Bramble Bush. After all these years and many imitators, The Bramble Bush remains one of the most popular introductions to the law and its study.
Llewellyn...
| Author | Patrick Grim |
| ISBN | 1598034227 |
If you like dualism, you will like this lecture series. If, like me, you think many of the arguments in support of dualism amount to pseudoscience founded upon truly bad logic, then the focus of this lecture series will annoy you, to a very large degree. There are extremely simple, and readily available,...
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre
| Author | Jonathan I. Israel |
| ISBN | 0691151725 |
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics,...
| Author | J.M.G. Le Clézio |
| ISBN | 0803280076 |
Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clézio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes...
