"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses" (Simone Weil, Selected Essays).

Ben Mulvey's podcasts about Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil are here.

Major Philosophers

Bibliography for beginners (The following general surveys are suitable for beginners):

Julia Annas. Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press, 2000. [Available in NSU library collection, B111 .A56 2000.]

James Arieti. Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction . Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

Thomas Cahill. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter . Anchor Books, 2003. [Available in NSU library collection, DF77 .C28 2003.]

Anthony Gottlieb. The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance . W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. [Available in NSU library collection, B72 .G68 2000.]

Justin Pollard and Howard Reid. The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World . Penguin, 2007.

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