He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world to enter, that of THE MONK. He had studied the book with great care and finally selected...

Philosophy is the art of seeing through appearances to discern the hidden reality.

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill’s essay On Liberty, or Hobbes’s Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen...