A compilation of all previously published writings on philosophy and the foundations of mathematics from the greatest of the generation of Cambridge scholars that included G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maynard Keynes.

Regarded as the 'father of conservatism', Edmund Burke was one of the most versatile and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. The first volume of F.P. Lock's acclaimed biography covers his Irish upbringing, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence.

The first volume of a new biography of Edmund Burke, one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. A writer and philosopher as well as an active politician, his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, he has exercised a profound posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'.

This volume concludes Professor Lock's magisterial biography of Edmund Burke, one of the most influential political philosophers in the Western tradition. Covering the most interesting years of Burke's life, the leading themes are India and the French Revolution. Burke was a key figure in shaping long-term British attitudes to both.