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This book is a meticulously researched but very readable story of Huguenot Paul Fourdrinier's journey from being an apprentice in Holland to a highly recognized printmaker in London in the eighteenth century.

Paul is almost forgotten and artistically underrated but was an accomplished copper engraver who founded the English Fourdrinier dynasty, which produced the developers of the Fourdrinier papermaking machine and the mother of Cardinal Newman.

The reader will be immersed in his world and his connections to aristocrats, artists, and great projects of the age--including the...

Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is no serious dispute among scholars that the Eudemian Ethics is authentic. The Eudemian Ethics is increasingly read and used by scholars as a useful support and confirmation and sometimes contrast to the Nicomachean Ethics. Yet, it remains a largely neglected work in the study of Aristotle's ethics, both among scholars and moral philosophers.

Peter L. P. Simpson provides an analytical outline of the entire work together with summaries of each individual section, making the overall...

Political Illiberalism deconstructs the story of liberalism that John Rawls, author of Political Liberalism, and many others have put forward. Peter L. P. Simpson argues that political liberalism is despotic because it denies politics a concern with the comprehensive human good and that political illiberalism overcomes this despotism and restores genuine freedom. This work provides a detailed account of these political phenomena and presents a political theory opposed to that of the proponents of modern liberalism.

Simpson analyzes and confronts the assumptions of...

In this follow up to The Eudemian Ethics of Aristotle, Peter L. P. Simpson centres his attention on the basics of Aristotelian moral doctrine as found in the Great Ethics: the definition of happiness, the nature and kind of the virtues, pleasure, and friendship. This work's authenticity is disputed, but Simpson argues that all the evidence favours it. Unlike the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics, Aristotle wrote the Great Ethics for a popular audience. It gives us insight less into Aristotle the theoretician than into...