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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a…
The I Ching or Book of Changes
A translation of the early document of Chinese philosophy with explanatory notes.
The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy
One of this century's most important philosophers here focuses on Plato's Protagoras, Phaedo, Republic, and Philebus and on Aristotle's three moral treatises to show the essential continuity of Platonic and Aristotelian reflection on the nature of…
