Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Nicholas D.

The present work is an attempt to analyse critically Plato's views on mind and body and more particularly on the mind-body relationship within the wider setting of Plato's metaphysics.

Scholars of the patristic era have paid more attention to the dogmatic tradition in their period than to the development of Christian mystical theology.

In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.

Moral Motivation presents a history of the concept of moral motivation.

Why Cicero Matters shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a new political world.

In this bold new study, Andrew J.

In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E.

This book reconstructs Heidegger's philosophy of time by reading his work with and against a series of key interlocutors that he nominates as being central to his own critical history of time.

Originally published in 1973.

Here is an outstanding new intellectual biography of Augustine of Hippo.

This book studies the pilgrimage of the Ancient World in its search for moral truth.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy.

The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership- reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers.

Investigates Plato''s account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

Plotin ist der intensivste und kraftvollste Denker im Kontext spätantiker Philosophie, von großer unmittelbarer und geschichtlich weitreichender Ausstrahlung.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

This book represents the cutting edge of theoretical works on Confucianism.

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in contrast to the continuous historical interest in that life as an object for biographical reconstruction and description.

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback.

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.

Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving.

First published in 1962, this book provides a systematic account of the development of Plato's theory of knowledge.

Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato''s method of argument in the early dialogues.

This book is a response to the literary pleasures and scholarly problems of reading the texts of Apuleius, most famous for his novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass.

This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (he/?

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle's perspective.

This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato's Protagoras.

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

Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors.

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Dieser Studie liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass die Ausformulierung einer normativen Ethik nicht ohne eine ethische Güterlehre möglich ist.

Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition consists of twelve essays originally published between 2006 and 2015, dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieval Platonic tradition.

The first collection of ancient texts on the Sceptic Aenesidemus, providing a reference book for the history of Scepticism.