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Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other …
In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. …
A major treatise on moral philosophy by Aristotle, this is the first time the Eudemian Ethics has been published in …
The Nicomachean Ethics (; ; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of …
If you’re interested in Rhetoric and what to get deeper into this now lost discipline, this is probably one of the best modern expositions you will find.
Throughout this book, the authors shows a remarkable mastery of the subject, rendering even the more subtle aspects of Rhetoric simple and easy to follow.
The authors also provides a remarkable wealth of materials in order to kickstart any course on the subject, making this a reliable manual on Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student.
This book, though not being very long, offers an interesting glimpse onto a fundamental text of the Buddhist canon: the Book of Eights.
The superb translation of this canonical text is accompanied by a very thorough explanation of its context and meaning by the translator, making its content and subtleties more easily understandable and graspable by the modern reader.
It also provides a very insightful glimpse into the Buddhist scholarship around this text and how it supposedly came to be composed, as well as providing clues as to the authenticity of its author and content.
So, even if you’re not even interested in Buddhism, Buddha’s words, or Buddhist scholarship, this book will still provide you with many snippets of timeless wisdom that in some way will enrich your life and understanding. You won’t regret having read it.
