Arthur Schopenhauer's The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (1841) consists of two groundbreaking essays: 'On the Freedom of the Will' and 'On the Basis of Morals'. The essays make original contributions to ethics and display Schopenhauer's erudition, prose-style and flair for philosophical controversy, as well as philosophical views that contrast sharply with the positions of...(展开全部)

Reading Hobbes in light of both the history of ethics and the conceptual apparatus developed in recent work on normativity, this book challenges received interpretations of Hobbes and his historical significance. Arash Abizadeh uncovers the fundamental distinction underwriting Hobbes's ethics: between prudential reasons of the good, articulated via natural laws prescribing the ...(展开全部)

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

The fundamental theorem of algebra states that any complex polynomial must have a complex root. This book examines three pairs of proofs of the theorem from three different areas of mathematics: abstract algebra, complex analysis and topology. The first proof in each pair is fairly straightforward and depends only on what could be considered elementary mathematics. However, eac...(展开全部)

The fundamental theorem of algebra states that any complex polynomial must have a complex root. This book examines three pairs of proofs of the theorem from three different areas of mathematics: abstract algebra, complex analysis and topology. The first proof in each pair is fairly straightforward and depends only on what could be considered elementary mathematics. However, eac...(展开全部)

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's birth, his works continue to spark debate, resounding with unmatched timeliness and power. The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific c...(展开全部)

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's birth, his works continue to spark debate, resounding with unmatched timeliness and power. The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific c...(展开全部)

理查德·A. 波斯纳（Richard A. Posner, 1939- ），先后以第一名毕业于耶鲁大学文学系（1959）和哈佛法学院（1962）。曾任美国联邦最高法院大法官助手、政府律师。联邦司法部副部长助理，总统交通政策特别工作组首席法律顾问等职。后任斯坦福大学和芝加哥大学法学院教授和L.B. 弗雷曼讲座法学教授，联邦上诉法院法官，并担任芝加哥大学法学院法律经济学高级讲座主持人。1981年出任联邦第七巡回区上诉讼院至今（1993-2000年任首席法官），同时担任芝加哥大学法学院高级讲师。 “他是著述最丰的联邦法官，前无古人。任职上诉法院、仍属最高产的法学家之列，同样前无古人。如果以引证率测度影响力，那么当仁不让，波斯纳是世界的最有影响的法学家”（莱西格语）。

In recent years, libertarian impulses have increasingly influenced national and economic debates, from welfare reform to efforts to curtail affirmative action. Long out of print, Murray N. Rothbard's classic The Ethics of Liberty stands as one of the most rigorous and philosophically sophisticated expositions of the libertarian political position. What distinguishes Rothbard's ...(展开全部)