In the Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues that under capitalism the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them: instead of realizing their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in

"Platon a fait d'un evenement contingent, a savoir le proces puis la mort de Socrate, un mythe fondateur de la philosophie. Ce mythe modelera fortement la figure du Sage dans la tradition philosophique occidentale. Car Socrate, a l'approche de la mort, est en effet plus philosophe que jamais : seule la pratique de la philosophie rend la vie digne d'etre vecue, et en corollaire, permet d'accepter la mort."

Is it always better to be just than unjust? That is the central question of Plato's Republic, discussed here by Melvyn Bragg and guests. Writing in c380BC, Plato applied this question both to the individual and the city-state, considering earlier and current forms of government in Athens and potential forms, in which the ideal city might be ruled by philosophers. The Republic is arguably Plato's best known and greatest work, a dialogue between Socrates and his companions, featuring the allegory of the cave

Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. After her mother´s early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister, and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester. Motherhood and the obligations of a minister´s wife kept her busy. However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, ´Mary Barton´, which was published anonymously in 1848. It

‘...WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in finding out of truth, nor

Das Werk "Ecce Homo - Wie man wird, was man ist" von Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ist seine Autobiographie, in der er sich mit Hilfe seiner Schriften (Geburt der Tragödie; Unzeitgemaassen; Menschlisches, Allzumenschlisches; Morgenröthe; La Gaya Scienza; Also sprach Zarathustra; Jenseits von Gut und Böse; Genalogie der Moral, Götzen-Dämmerungs; Der Fall Wagner...) selbst darstellt.