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The `only pretension, of which I am tenacious,' declares William Hazlitt in The Plain Speaker, `is that of being a metaphysician' yet up till now his metaphysics, and particularly what is here identified as his `power principle', have not been examined in detail. This book identifies the ...

The `only pretension, of which I am tenacious,' declares William Hazlitt in The Plain Speaker, `is that of being a metaphysician' yet up till now his metaphysics, and particularly what is here identified as his `power principle', have not been examined in detail. This book identifies the metaphysical Hazlitt within the other and better-known Hazlitt, long acknowledged as a master of `the familiar style' and more recently celebrated for the fierceness and intensity of his political prose. Studying his development of the power principle as a counter to the pleasure principle of the Utilitarians, it examines the revelation of power in his philosophy of discourse, his account of imaginative structure, his theory of genius, and his moral theory, and asserts the tenacity of this principle throughout his work. Disseminated through the range of his writings, Hazlitt's metaphysics becomes a metaphysics of power in more senses than one: it is both argument and example, itself manifesting that force of human intellect that it seeks to explicate.

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical ...

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements:*Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides*The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates*Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus*Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics*Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero*Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine.This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains:*full references to primary sources*detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings*an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought*discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas*analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics*explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.