Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Critical Guides

Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. This Critical Guide presents essays by well-known scholars in the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the political theory and the metaphysics of the work.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close examination of the work.

This volume provides essays on the Laws, Plato's last dialogue and major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. The essays cover a wide range of topics in the Laws, including political and ethical philosophy, psychology, theology and aesthetics. It will interest philosophers, classicists and political theorists.

In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of contributors explores the Metaphysics of Morals in relation to Kant's earlier works, as well as examining the themes which emerge from the text itself, including the connections between right and virtue, and topics such as property, punishment, and moral feelings.

The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting aspects of Plato's Republic, addressing questions that continue to puzzle and provoke today. This volume will be essential to those looking for thoughtful and detailed excursions into the problems posed by Plato's text and ideas.

These 2010 essays offer a plurality of critical approaches to Kierkegaard's fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; and his contemporary pertinence.

This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by Mill's On Liberty, including the concept of liberty, the toleration of diversity, freedom of expression, the value of allowing 'experiments in living', the basis of individual liberty, multiculturalism and the claims of minority cultural groups.

This collection of essays examines all aspects of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, from its argumentative strategies to its continuing relevance to philosophical debates. In showing clearly that we have not yet exhausted the Phenomenology's insights, it demonstrates the need for contemporary philosophers to engage with Hegel.

In this volume of newly-commissioned essays, a distinguished team of contributors explores the Metaphysics of Morals in relation to Kant's earlier works, as well as examining the themes which emerge from the text itself, including the connections between right and virtue, and topics such as property, punishment, and moral feelings.