Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

First Published in 2004.

A fresh and exciting study of Cicero''s philosophical activities and the enduring interest of his ethical and political thought.

Exploration of Aristotle''s philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.

Aristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are individuated by their matter.

In the reincarnation myth in Book X of Plato's Republic, the unnamed first soul, who has lived a good life and has been rewarded in the afterlife, chooses a new life and fate, and chooses catastrophically badly.

First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians.

Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M.

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

This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions.

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

This title was first published in 2002.

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous clich : the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political communities.

For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one's life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.

Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric.

In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality.

How should I live?

Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato's famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth.

In this deft and vigorous book, Mark Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism (ie.

In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

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

The most influential doctor of later antiquity, Galen wrote extensively on logic and the philosophy of science.

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-a-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans.

In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics, and the arts.

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

What does the study of Plato s dialogues tell us about the modern meaning of sex ?

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.

Argues that, for Aristotle, scientific inquiry is governed both by a domain-neutral erotetic framework and by domain-specific norms.

This first of two volumes on the Greeks by Rush Rhees addresses the central philosophical question: In what sense does philosophy investigate reality?

Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment.

Until the launch of this series over ten years ago, the 15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 600 AD, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages.

This book confronts a question central to political philosophy and contemporary political theory: what is a citizen?

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions?

The first book to show how Cicero invented the idea of ''the will of the people'' and its ramifications today.

'But where shall wisdom be found?

Pioneering collection of essays contributing to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics.

From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy, written by Sir Anthony Kenny in the early years of the 21st century.

A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living-ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agricultureWhether you farm or garden, live in the country or long to move there, or simply enjoy an occasional rural retreat, you will be delighted by this cornucopia of writings about living and working on the land, harvested from the fertile fields of ancient Greek and Roman literature.

An introduction to the philosophical and religious thought of Proclus the Neoplatonist, one of the most complex thinkers of antiquity.

As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of three periods in Ancient Greece: the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Greco-Roman periods.

Discovered one hundred years ago, Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia is invaluable to contemporary understanding of Athenian democracy.

Originally published in 1993.

Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us--a view still dominant in philosophy now.

The Cyrenaic school of philosophy (named after its founder Aristippus' native city of Cyrene in North Africa) flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE and whose importance was much recognized in ancient times.

Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself?

'The universe is, as it were, one machine, wherein the celestial spheres are analogous to the interlocking wheels and the particular beings are like the things moved by the wheels, and all events are determined by an inescapable necessity.