Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience?

Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception.

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics.

A comprehensive, authoritative, innovative and accessible account of Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West.

Examines the engagement of Aristophanes'' Thesmophoriazusae with Parmenidean philosophy to issue a political critique of tragic deception and its effects.

This book pursues a strand in the history of thought - ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations - that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms.

Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence?

This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators.

A new and accurate translation of an important work of ancient Greek scepticism.

This book, first published in English in 1933, provides a detailed analysis of the life and concepts of the Greek philosopher Plato.

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English.

Can the education which so many search for today on our college campuses be found in the works of a past author?

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Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter.

Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.

Provides new translations of Plato''s important works of ancient philosophy with an introduction explaining the major arguments.

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This book challenges popular modern views of Socrates by examining the political significance of his activity in ancient Athens.

Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries.

Diogenes Laertios, der Biograph der griechischen Philosophen, soll seinen Nachnamen von der Stadt Laërte in Kilikien erhalten haben.

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

With a novel approach to Aristotle's zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals' bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live.

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

Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest oratorAll of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision.

A COMPANION TO MARCUS AURELIUS Considered the last of the Five Good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire from ad 161 until his death in 180 yet his influence on philosophy continues to resonate in the modern age through his Meditations.

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores 'Absence' and 'Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being.

This book explores the process during 100 BCE–100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.

In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary.

This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy.

A study of Plato''s ethics, focusing on the concept of virtue.

The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership- reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers.

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From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic.

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Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments?

An original and lucid discussion of the Republic''s philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relationship to the form of the good.

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.

An incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny.

Plato was born around 2,500 years ago.

In a new interpretation of Parmenides' philosophical poem On Nature, Vishwa Adluri considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals.

A major reassessment by a senior scholar of the whole of Plato''s work and philosophical approach.

The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new 'cultivation of the self' strand within contemporary moral philosophy.

Although Neoplatonism has long been studied by classicists, until recently most philosophers saw the ideas of Plotinus et al as a lot of religious/magical mumbo-jumbo.

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Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and objectivity.

A comprehensive overview of rhetorical practice and theory in Graeco-Roman antiquity, from Homer to early Christianity.

First published in 1917, Theophrastus and the Greek Physiological Psychology Before Aristotle is on the history of ancient Greek physiological psychology.