Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work.

The third edition of this classic text contains a new preface and additional reflections at various points in which the author takes account both of recent debates on science and on the impact of scientific products and practices on the ...

This volume is an essential source for scholars seeking to understand the contemporary significance of the dawning of the modern era.

Covering such issues as the aims of science, the role it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibiliby of the scientist, the function of a university, and the choice between reason and revolution, this book defends science and ...

'This is a timely book, with penetrating discussion of issues very much in the forefront of the contemporary philosophy.

In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature.

Part 1 discusses ways in which theories about morality and rationality can be self-defeating and Part 2 the relations between what a single person can rationally want or do at different times, and what different people can rationally want ...

This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss's thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work.