In New Atlantis, Francis Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon's House (or Solomon's House), envisioned...

"Apology" is the famous account of the trial of Socrates. Plato's dialogue presents the charges brought against Socrates by the people of Athens and lays out the arguments that the accused presented in his defense. Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth of the city with his radical ideas and of impiety against the pantheon of the Athenian gods, or more specifically, of not believing in the gods of the city and believing instead in no gods or...

This sourcebook includes "The ten best things ever said" on 250 topics and uses QR codes to digitally integrate it with Dr. Mardy's Dictionary of Metaphorical Quotations, the world's largest online database of metaphorical quotations.--

"In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben. 'We need to understand that when Thoreau sat in the dooryard of his cabin 'from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house,' he was offering counsel and example exactly suited for our...

Vom Redner ist ein grundlegendes Werk der rhetorischen Schriften Marcus Tullius Ciceros, in dem die Voraussetzungen des Rednerberufs, das Wesen der Rhetorik, der Aufbau der Rede, Fragen des Stils und der moralischen und philosophischen Pflichten des Redners erörtert werden. Die Schrift ist in der Form eines fiktiven Dialogs zwischen Lucius Licinius Crassus und Marcus Antonius Orator, Ciceros Lehrern und Vorbildern aufgebaut und datiert auf das Jahr...

One of the middle or transitional dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, "Gorgias" depicts a dinner gathering attended by Socrates and a group of sophists. Gorgias, a foreigner, has been drawn to Athens by its cultural and intellectual sophistication. In this dialogue Plato contrasts Gorgias, the rhetorician, with Socrates, the philosopher, whose differing specialties are persuasion and refutation, respectively. As Plato delves into arguments...

Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession". The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...

Written sometime in the 4th Century BC, Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is the definitive treatise on the art of persuasive public speaking. The art of oratorical persuasion was an essential skill for the successful politician during the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle's "Rhetoric" is considered one of the greatest works from antiquity on the subject. Like many of the surviving works attributable to Aristotle, "Rhetoric" was not intended for public dissemination,...

El arte de hablar en público o Retórica es hoy, si cabe, más necesario que nunca. Lo necesitan abogados y políticos, ejecutivos y comerciales en sus presentaciones de empresa, oradores sagrados, publicistas y el actual homo mediaticus en general. Desde la antigüedad griega y latina se había configurado una rica tradición retórica que llega hasta el siglo xvi. En 1515 Nebrija confecciona en latín un magnífico manual con textos de Aristóteles,...

"Este libro nació de la polémica abierta hace unos pocos años por la revista Arcadia en su artículo "¿Dónde están los filósofos?". La tesis que se planteó la investigación fue que tal vez era posible dar respuesta a esa inquietante pregunta si se hacía una investigación de archivo con análisis cualitativos y cuantitativos. Esos análisis podían dar cuenta de la presencia de los filósofos colombianos en el espacio social y de la manera...