This text argues that justice is a virtue which everyone shares - a function of personal character and not just of government or economic planning. It uses examples from Plato to Ivan Boesky, to document how we live and how we feel.

A study of the world's great ideas from Plato and Aquinas to William James and Simone de Beauvoir. Aimed at those who wish to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy.

[This book] brings together primary texts in the history of West Philosophy focusing on the themes of love and desire. Complete and excerpted texts are preceded by substantive introductions and study questions. Introductions include brief biographies of the thinks and provide historical context, enabling students to appreciate both the continuity across and the historical breaks among these works. This anthology is suitable for general introductory courses in philosophy as well as specialized courses on philosophy of love and philosophy of th person.-Back cover.

The purpose of this engaging book is twofold: to explain and justify the primary objects and methods of the discipline of philosophy, and to show how philosophy is relevant to a person's life and happiness. Both purposes are implied in the idea of wisdom in its theoretical and existential dimensions. Philosophy is the 'love of wisdom, ' and wisdom involves coming into a right relation to the world of beauty, goodness, and truth

Sixty philosophers' memoirs revealing how they became philosophers and dedicated their lives to the pursuit of wisdom.