Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity.

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

In the Hellenistic period (c.

Ammonius, who taught most of the leading sixth-century Neoplatonists, introduced the methods of his own teacher, Proclus, from Athens to Alexandria.

The second edition of James E.

These six diverse and difficult dialogues are seen together as aspects of Plato''s project of reformulating his theory of Forms.

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems.

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe.

Aimed at students of classics and of philosophy who would like a taste of the subject before being committed to a full course and at those who have already started and need to find their bearings in what may seem at first a complex maze of names and schools, "e;Introducing Greek Philosophy"e; is a concise, lively, philosophically aware introduction to ancient Greek philosophy.

The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy.

Over the centuries leading up to their composition many genres and authors have emerged as influences on Horace's Satires, which in turn has led to a wide variety of scholarly interpretations.

This book represents a series of incursions or philosophical forays between realms of Byzantine and Russian thought and territory long claimed by Western philosophy and theology.

As the final work by Ye Xiushan, one of the most famous philosophers and philosophy scholars in China, this two-volume title scrutinizes the historical development of both Chinese and Western philosophies, aiming to explore the convergence between the two philosophical traditions.

Examines why Plato wrote the Parmenides and what role it played in his philosophical development.

Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece.

Connecting several strands of Aristotle's thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the axioms of Aristotle's ethics and political philosophy that every community has a ruler and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships.

Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, "e;What is self?

Consciousness and the Great Philosophers addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to the contemporary problem of consciousness.

Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power.

Argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress.

Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim?

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.

Step into the captivating world of Sappho, the legendary poetess of Lesbos, whose verses have inspired and mystified readers for over two millennia.

Echeñique discusses Aristotle''s views on moral agency and voluntariness and presents a theory of moral responsibility that is both original and compelling.

With detailed annotation and references, this is the first complete English translation of Plotinus in one volume for several decades.

With an new foreword by James WarrenLong renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.

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

This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics.

A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.

Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari's philosophy to the disciplines of Christian Origins and Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through such Deleuzioguattarian concepts as the 'rhizome', the 'machine', the 'body without organs' and the 'multiplicity', using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so.

The shape and course which Christian thought has taken over its history is largely due to the contributions of individuals and communities in the second and third centuries.

This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love.

Roman Stoicism, first published in 1911, offers an authoritative introduction to this fascinating chapter in the history of Western philosophy, which throughout the 20th century has been rediscovered and rehabilitated among philosophers, theologians and intellectual historians.

This book provides a unified account of the connection between justice and the good life.

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy.

Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice?

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

The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds.

'The interpretours of Plato,' wrote Sir Thomas Elyot in The Governour (1531), 'do think that the wonderful and incomprehensible order of the celestial bodies, I mean sterres and planettes, and their motions harmonicall, gave to them that intensifly and by the deepe serche of raison beholde their coursis, in the sondrye diversities of number and tyme, a forme of imitation of a semblable motion, which they called daunsigne or sltation.

Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of 'contemplation,' the interior presence of God to the soul.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject around the world.

Presents an up-to-date overview of the new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies responds to and celebrates the explosion of research in this inter-disciplinary field over recent decades.

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.