Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools.

This volume features more than fifteen essays written in honor of Peter D.

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Uses the study of ancient societies and anthropology to suggest a new cross-cultural perspective for the history of science.

Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.

This book explores the vital role played by the family in Stoic ideas of moral development found in Seneca''s philosophical writing.

As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives.

In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism.

Beginning with Greece's earliest rites, this volume traces the development of the classic religion of the Olympian gods and discusses the religion of the philosophic schools of the fourth century BC.

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This guide to St Thomas Aquinas'' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.

This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply.

In Science before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato.

In one of the most original books of late antiquity, Philoponus argues for the Christian view that matter can be created by God out of nothing.

In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums-by asserting some very strange things.

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought.

Examines the first case of female engagement with Greek philosophy and analyses the first texts ascribed to women philosophers.

Aristotle's Meteorology influenced generations of speculation about the earth sciences, ranging from atmospheric phenomena to earthquakes.

On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection.

In this bold new study, Andrew J.

Simplicius and Priscian were two of the seven Neoplatonists who left Athens when the Christian Emperor Justinian closed the paganschool there in A.

The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out.

This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in political and moral philosophy.

Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways.

This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment.

Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics , lived in the sixth century A.

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue tradition in Greek from imperial Rome to the end of the Byzantine empire and beyond.

What is justice?

This is the only commentary on Aristotle's theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE – the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle.

A pioneering, original work of synthesis that traces modern ideas about systems science and sustainable living back to Classical antiquity.

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic.

A literary approach to Roman philosophy demonstrating the relevance of gender, feminism and rhetoric to the history of the self.

Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions.

This volume provides a clear, rigorous translation of one of the most important works of Platonic philosophy from late antiquity.

This book helps understand Plato's writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced.

The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new.

This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures.

Examines Aristotle''s vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.

In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career.

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The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour of the view that everything is necessary and examines the development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that this is compatible with moral responsibility and desert.

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.

This book, first published in 1992, introduces some of Socrates' problems and some of the problems about him.

The Asclepius is one of two philosophical books ascribed to the legendary sage of Ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistus, who was believed in classical and renaissance times to have lived shortly after Moses.