Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

In this insightful new book David J.

The Platonic Form is often presented as an instrument of explanation and as a cause in ontology, epistemology, and ethics.

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered "e;No!

The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle provides in-depth studies of the main themes of Aristotle's thought, from art to zoology.

These essays demonstrate the contemporary vitality of existential thought, engaging critically with the main concepts and figures of existentialism.

'We are all Greeks.

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles.

Ashrams in Europe twenty-five hundred years ago?

Focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from ca.

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

Collection of essays exploring theories of language developed by philosophers during the Hellenistic period.

In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K.

An original theory that connects the development of coinage to the origins of rational philosophy in ancient Greece.

First published in 1961, Forrest E.

Eric Osborn''s book presents a major study of Irenaeus (125–200), bishop of Lyons.

Aristotle's On Interpretation, the centrepiece of his logic, examines the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements.

This book explores the ways in which the origins of time, of the gods, and processes associated with time were conceptualised in antiquity, examining a variety of ancient sources from across the ancient world and addressing issues surrounding the sources themselves.

Explains how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy.

In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two.

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

Proclus' commentary on Plato's Cratylus is the only ancient commentary on this work to have survived, and is illuminating in two particular respects.

Soon after Nero's accession in 54 CE, his tutor, the philosopher Seneca, addressed to his young pupil an essay called De Clementia in which he offered advice on how to behave in his new role.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship.

This is the first book written by Chinese scholars with more accurate interpretation of Master Xun's philosophy and quoted texts from other Chinese classics.

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

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

This volume provides an overview of political problems as Aristotle conceived of them his Politics.

Discussing Plato's views on knowledge, recollection, dialogue, and epiphany, this ambitious volume offers a systematic analysis of the ways that Platonic approaches to education can help students navigate today's increasingly complex moral environment.

These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday.

This volume presents fourteen of William E.

A collection of essays bringing diverse approaches to Plato into conversation in the spirit of its honorand, Christopher Rowe.

Reissuing works originally published between 1938 and 1993, this set offers a range of scholarship covering Aristotle's logic, virtues and mathematics as well as a consideration of De Anima and of his work on physics, specifically light.

For Plato, philosophy depends on, or is perhaps even identical with, dialectic.

What are emotions?

This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines.

Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea that he set out to define justice in the Republic; the idea that knowledge is a kind of true belief, or that Plato ever thought that it might be something like that; the idea that "e;knowledge proper"e; is propositional, and that the Theaetetus was Plato's best attempt to define knowledge as a species of belief, and that it only failed due to his incompetence.

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Analyses the female in Aristotle''s biology, leading to a reassessment of his hylomorphism, scientific methodology and psychology.

Explores the impact of the governing method of hypothesis in Plato''s Phaedo on the dialogues'' arguments for the soul''s immortality.

The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought.

"e;A Plato Primer"e; introduces beginning students and the general reader to the main theses, concepts and arguments in Plato's philosophy.

The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece, from the times when the immensely influential Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed, to the period of the equally influential author, Aristotle.

In this companion to his best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran explores the essential themes of this much-loved Indian scripture.