Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

The world has seen several financial and economic crises in the past few years.

This lively and original guidebook offers an invitation to the study of Greek philosophy and signposts to lead the student deeper.

In order to compete in the modern world, any society today must rank education in science, mathematics, and technology as one of its highest priorities.

Maatian Ethics in a Communication Context explores the ethical principle of Maat: the guiding principle of harmony and order that permeated classical African political and civil life.

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.

The presocratic philosopher Protagoras of Abdera (490 420 BC), founder of the sophistic movement, was famously agnostic towards the existence and nature of the gods, and was the proponent of the doctrine that 'man is the measure of all things'.

Stoicism was a key philosophical movement in the Hellenistic period.

Plato's dialogues were part of a body of fourth-century literature in which Socrates questioned (and usually got the better of) friends, associates, and supposed experts.

An accessible 2001 translation of Cicero''s important work on ethics.

The Stoic Doctrine of Providence attempts to reconstruct the Stoic doctrine of providence (as argued for in ancient texts now lost) and explain its many fascinating philosophical issues.

Much of the work that has been done on virtue has been devoted to getting virtue ethics a seat at the theoretical table.

A major new history of classical Greece-how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from itLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew.

First published in 1992.

Explaining the Cosmos analyzes the writings of three thinkers associated with Gaza: Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius.

Dictado primero y mimeografiado en Estrasburgo en 1953, luego transformado en "Curso de la Sorbona" reproducido en mimeógrafo en 1957, este Curso interpreta con rigor los sentidos de las tres palabras del título: "ser", "esencia" y "sustancia" -los conceptos fundamentales de la filosofía occidental- o como tales representan un progreso considerable de la razón conceptual en relación con los presocráticos, que todavía hablaban de los "elementos".

Ancient Greek Cosmogony is the first detailed, comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world.

This book provides a glimpse into 17th-century Zhuangzi (?

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The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has been one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, both in antiquity itself and in modern times.

Originally published in 1938.

Written by a master of the subject with a long teaching experience, this book is a concise and accessible overview of the response of early Christian thought to classical philosophy and its integration into Christian theology.

Book 3 of Aristotle's Physics primarily concerns two important concepts for his theory of nature: change and infinity.

Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues.

Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism is one of the most important and influential texts in the history of Greek philosophy.

What are reason and rationality?

A full study of the surviving evidence for Xenarchus of Seleucia, one of the earliest interpreters of Aristotle.

In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void.

O''Shaughnessy investigates bodily action in a new edition of this classic work of analytical philosophy.

This book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

This book describes how French Christian culture allowed the dissemination of Epicureanism, which denied divine design.

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.

Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figures including Galileo Galilei, Thomas Hobbes, Ren Descartes, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton.

A fresh interpretation of this important and widely misunderstood concept as an acquired ability to make principles and essences intelligible.

This volume addresses the complex and conflicted vision in Augustine''s City of God, as a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage.

Full literary-critical study of Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles, reassessing their importance for the history of Greek poetics.

This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.

The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections.

The first of two volumes collecting the published work up to 2000 of one of the greatest living scholars of ancient philosophy alive today.

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

This study of Augustine''s Confessions presents his testimony of conversion as an antidote to modern culture''s tendency toward disbelief.

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

This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy.

Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas.

Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions; traditions that are now largely neglected by philosophers and scholars.