G. E. R. Lloyd
Although there is no exact equivalent to our term "science" in Greek,
Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks.More
Emile Capouya, Keitha Tompkins
More than any Russian thinker of his time, Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) anticipated the great social and ethical problems of the twentieth century.More
G. E. R. Lloyd
Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to attempt to explain natural phenomena consistently in naturalistic terms, and they initiated the practices of rational criticism of scientific theories.More
Thorleif Boman
"Builds on the premise that language and thought are inevitably and inextricably bound up with each other. . . . A classic study of the differences between Greek and Hebrew thought."—John E. Rexrine, Colgate UniversityMore
Bertrand Russell
The fireworks fly when the great Bertrand Russell writes about a subject as provocative as marriage and morals. But they are a rational and devastatingly logical kind of fireworks . . . for that was the nature of the man.More
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moses Hadas
The philosophy of Seneca has extended in influence from first-century
Rome to the essays of Montaigne, to Elizabethan tragedy, to the
theology of Calvin and the doctrines of the French Revolution.More
José Ortega y Gasset
A work powerful and pervading in its implications not only for metaphysics but also for art, political science, and the philosophy of history.More
Evelyn Barish
An explosive biography, decades in the making, reveals the secret past of the Svengali-like academic who held an entire generation in his thrall.More