Metaphysics is Aristotle's most famous and influential philosophical work, consisting of 14 books. The name Metaphysics is not Aristotle's – it came later because the writings were placed "behind physics" (meta ta physika).
Plato's dialogue Gorgias (c. 380 BC) in which Socrates debates with Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles about the nature of rhetoric, power, justice, and the good life. A harsh criticism of the Sophists and their oratory as flattery rather than knowledge.
Montaigne is considered the father of the essay (The Views were first published in 1580), a literary form that combines a scientific approach and the author's personal view of the subject.
With his exuberant and uncompromising critique of capitalism, Marx transformed our understanding of human history. Is Marxism, in the wake of today's devastating financial crisis, just a mere relic from another era?
"Discourses on Method" is a collection of essays and discussions by the prominent Croatian sociologist Ivan Kuvačić (1924–2005), written during his many years of work at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.