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Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate comp

The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D.

"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world.

Considerations on Representative Government is a book by John Stuart Mill published in 1861.

Boston College professor Peter Kreeft's lectures examine the eternal question of faith and present the most compelling arguments for and against God's existence, the seeming conflicts between relig

Describes the back-breaking but soul-strengthening task of building a stone wall on a New England farm.

After the success of his work "On bullshit," Frankfurt looks at the other side of the philosophical coin.