Takes the reader back to first principles, re-reading the key texts to reveal what the philosopher actually said.

As such this is an essential title for all commercial law practitioners, arbitration and commercial dispute resolution practitioners, and banking law practitioners.

"Williams had intended to weave these essays into a connected narrative on political philosophy with reflections on his own experience of postwar politics.

Réflexion sur l'objectivité que peut atteindre l'éthique en se fondant sur la réalité sociale plutôt que sur les fondements philosophiques traditionnels depuis Socrate. Un ouvrage à contre-courant, donc stimulant.

In this volume, a summation of his career, Williams was drawn to the subject of the history of philosophy which he distinguished clearly from the history of ideas.