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Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams writes about a broad range of subjects, from

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A collection of essays, addressing the core subjects of political philosophy such as justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself.

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What can, and what can't, philosophy do What are its ethical risks - and its possible rewards How does it differ from science This book addresses these questions and presents a vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy something that counts as getting it right.

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A collection of essays on the history of philosophy. It covers subjects such as the sixth century BC to the twentieth AD, from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche.

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Explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. This book identifies two basic virtues of truth, accuracy and sincerity. It describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them.