A salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave.

This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method , bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.

A man goes in search of himself in the Swiss Alps with the help of Nietzsche.

Parenthood. It’s a role we often take for granted, yet it demands everything from us. We give, care, and guide, but how often do we pause to reflect on what it truly means to be a parent? What do we pass on to our children? What do we learn about ourselves through raising them? And what values do we want to instill in them for the future? This book invites you, through 100 questions, to explore yourself as a parent. It gives you the opportunity to reflect on your choices, your relationship ...

Why do human beings interpret their overall experience in terms of selfhood? How was the notion and sense of self shaped at different times and in different cultures? What sort of problems or paradoxes did these constructions face? These lectures address these and related questions by sketching a roadmap of possible theoretical avenues for conceiving of the self, bringing to the foreground its soteriological implications, while also testing this theoretical outlook against insights offered by...

By combining Saturnian philosophy with Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, This book could provide readers with a structured, holistic approach to living a disciplined and purpose-driven life that balances personal growth with larger societal influences. In an era defined by rapid change and instant gratification, the principles embodied by Saturn—discipline, responsibility, structure, and long-term thinking—offer a profound counterbalance. As we reflect on the insights presented ...

It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive.

Simon Blackburn, author of thebest-selling Think, structures th...

The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophy Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge; what is the purpose of education? ...

Originally delivered as a lecture in Paris in 1945, "Existentialism and Humanism" is Sartre's seminal defence of his original doctrine of existentialism and a plan for its practical application to everyday human life.