Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books II--IV Translated with an introduction and commentary

Während die griechische Philosophie lange auf das Notwendige als Basis sicherer Erkenntnis fokussiert war, spielen in der Metaphysik des Aristoteles der Begriff des Vermögens und der Möglichkeit eine zentrale Rolle.

The mythical narrative of transmigration tells the story of myriad wandering souls, each migrating from body to body along a path of recurrence amid the becoming of the All.

What role does food play in the shaping of humanity?

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With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato's dialogues in search of his conception of woman.

Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items.

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.

Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato.

This book offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the reception and reworking of the Peripatetic theory of the soul in the Kitab al-Nafs (Book of the Soul) by Avicenna (d.

Plato's Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people's general view of the natural world.

No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity is the first sustained study examining the circumstances under which the emotions of remorse and regret were manifested in Greek and Roman public life.

The present monograph on Plato's Sophist developed from series of lectures given over a number of years to honours and graduate phi- losophy classes in the University of Waterloo.

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The first collection of essays on Aristotle''s philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking.

Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of both reality and the nature of human experience.

The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

In this book, Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space-a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God.

This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations.

A detailed analysis of oikonomia, an underexplored branch of knowledge in ancient Greek philosophy.

The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato''s Republic.

Examines the engagement of Aristophanes'' Thesmophoriazusae with Parmenidean philosophy to issue a political critique of tragic deception and its effects.

This volume provides a geographically and historically diverse overview of philosophical traditions that establish a deep connection between truth and practice, or even see truth itself as a kind of practice.

Everyone wants to live a meaningful life.

This book develops a new concept-"e;martial culture"e;-with which to problematize and reframe thinking surrounding the lifeways of US servicemembers, by exploring the values, beliefs, norms, and rituals they are exposed to and practice during military service.

Covers all the important aspects of Boethius''s thought and his influence on poets as well as philosophers and theologians.

St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos.

Senecas Prosawerke als Schriften eines Stoikers zu erschließen und in den Kontext des stoischen Systems zu stellen - diese Aufgabe unternimmt Jula Wildberger mit der seit langer Zeit ersten detaillierten und ausführlichen Gesamt- und Neuinterpretation der stoischen Physik.

Heraklit, im Altertum der "Dunkle" genannt, ist einer der tiefsten Denker Griechenlands.

Comprehensive account of Melissus of Samos and his contribution to the philosophy of monism in early Greek thinking.

Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century.

Grow in wisdom with this practical guide to Stoic philosophy for modern day-to-day lifeDiscover the path to a more contented, fulfilled life through the teachings of Stoic philosophers, from Marcus Aurelius to Epictetus.

While scholarship on Lucretius has looked to connect De rerum natura to its larger cultural and historical context, it has never turned to speech act theory in this quest.

Twenty-first century neuroscience has discovered that in some severe cases, addiction may so constrain human freedom that the will is only able to choose to use substances of abuse.

The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the 1970s.

This book argues that Aristotle's aporia on time in the Physics figures both as an aporia in the subjective sense of a mental state of perplexity and in the objective, textual sense of a contrast between opposing views.

Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview.

Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition provides a fresh examination of the relationship of Greco-Roman philosophy to Pauline Christianity.

This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, humans) in Aristotle and Aristotelianism.

Mou Zongsan (1909-1995), one of the representatives of Modern Confucianism, belongs to the most important Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century.

In Volume Two of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays, Fortin deals with the relationship between religion and civil society in a Christian context: that of an essentially nonpolitical but by no means entirely otherwordly religion, many of whose teachings were thought to be fundamentally at odds with the duties of citizenship.

First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers.

This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between two of the main drivers of intellectual discourse in ancient Greece: the epic tradition and the Sophists.