Originally published in 1955, this book covers most of the problems of moral philosophy but concentrates on two of them: the criterion of right action and the nature of moral judgment.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

A work by an eminent critic which addresses itself to values in literature, and attempts to answer the simple and elusive question, Why read a work of imaginative literature?

Aims to provide data for a consideration of that vital question: the place of literature in human activity & the extent to which the nature & function of literature are determined by the social conditions under which the writer lives.

From Anglo-Saxon times to the present, the poetry, prose, and dramatic achievements of each period in English literature.

This book, which is both expository and critical, concentrates on Hobbes' s ethical and political theory, but also considers the effect of these on his metaphysics.