Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the...

After Socrates is sentenced to death by the Athenian court, his friend Crito comes to the prison to help him escape and go to another country. Socrates responds by saying that he...

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Socrates questions Ion, an actor who just won a major prize, about his ability to interpret the epic poetry of Homer. How does an actor, a poet, or any other artist create? Is it...

Hippias of Elis travels throughout the Greek world practicing and teaching the art of making beautiful speeches. On a rare visit to Athens, he meets Socrates who questions him...

Although never intended for publication, ‘Meditations’ has gone on to become one of the most important collections of philosophical thought, of all time. During his reign as...

The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be...

Socrates is in prison, sentenced to die when the sun sets. In this final conversation, he asks what will become of him once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution....

This is a really eclectic and fascinating bundle of five books on Science and Technology all in one volume.Future Predictions by an Engineer and Seer. This book does a thoroughly...

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and physicist. In his work "On Electricity", the prodigious inventory describes the development and influence...