Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world.

Title first published in 2003.

This book explores the circumstances surrounding Socrates' death, critically analysing conflicting sources to establish a framework for understanding his intellectual activities in the cultural, political, and religious context of 5th-century BC Athens.

A 2006 translation of four treatises by Galen on the classification and causation of diseases and symptoms.

Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Categories is the most comprehensive philosophical critique of the work ever written, representing 600 years of criticism.

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

In the second half of the twentieth century, ethics has gained considerable prominence within philosophy.

Tracing the historical origin and the critical development of Hellenic philosophy from vague and indeterminate beginnings to its classical maturity and fruition in the minds, words and works of the Athenian philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, this book argues that dignified nobility, respectful critique and unfettered freedom of thought and expression clearly defined the character of Classical Hellenic philosophy and that this distinguishes it from philosophies of different eras.

Of all the topics in the history of philosophy, the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked.

Offers a re-appraisal of the sources and philosophical significance of Peripatetic ethics as interpreted and appropriated by Antiochus of Ascalon.

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

This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought.

This book explores how politeia (constitution) structures both political and extra-political relations throughout the entire range of Greek and Roman thought.

This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE.

The Lysis is one of Plato''s most engaging but also puzzling dialogues, often regarded as a philosophical failure.

Ancient lessons for sustainable citizenshipAn ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference.

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017).

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

Reveals how ancient philosophers approached questions about the nature of poetry, its ethical and social impact and access to truth.

Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition.

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-Northeast's Yale H.

A close and selective commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, offering a novel interpretation of Aristotle's teachings on the relation between reason and moral virtue.

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

This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past.

The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory.

Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity.

An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series comprises some 114,000 entries.

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman).

Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World, first published in 1984, was the first comprehensive study of this recurrent theme in political sociology with specific reference to antiquity, and led to significant revaluation of the role of intellectuals in everyday political life.

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Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly.

What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text?

The first comprehensive study of the function and value of aporia, or puzzlement, as a key tool in ancient philosophical enquiry.

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

A literary approach to Roman philosophy demonstrating the relevance of gender, feminism and rhetoric to the history of the self.

Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret.

Soon after Aristotle's death, several schools of ancient philosophy arose, each addressing the practical question of how to live a good, happy life.

The first study in its entirety of this fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato''s Timaeus, also addressing the Latin translation.

First published in 1973, this title offers a concise and readable account of Burke's political philosophy.

This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides.

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

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times.

In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire.

This is the fourth and last volume of the translation in this series of the commentary on Aristotle On the Soul, wrongly attributed to Simplicius.

In this book, first published in 1978, Allen Brent sets out to explore some of the questions raised by theorists and philosophers regarding curriculum.

Warfare has long been central to a proper understanding of ancient Greece and Rome, worlds where war was, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, 'both king and father of all'.