Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers.

This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited.

Arguing against Socratic intellectualism, this book explains why Socrates believed that emotions, desires and appetites can lead to error.

The Platonic Forms of the Platonic dialogues.

Seneca was a man of many facets: statesman, dramatist, philosopher, prose stylist.

This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that prevailed until the 16th century.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.

This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle 'does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain'.

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback.

Pierre Aubenque, der Nestor der Aristotelesforschung in Frankreich und Europa, verbindet wie kein zweiter das Interesse an der richtigen Nachzeichnung des Denkens der griechischen Philosophie der Antike mit dem intellektuellen Projekt der philosophischen Aufhellung und Beantwortung der Frage nach der Funktion und Bedeutung der von den Griechen begründeten Ethik in unserer Zeit.

This book examines religious and ''scientific''/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.

The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first.

Through a close textual analysis and a contrastive examination of documents from both cultures, Mark Glouberman explores the biblical roots of our Western sense of self-identity and the ways in which non-philosophical Greek materials enhance our understanding of how that cultural view developed.

Bringing together the history of educational philosophy, political philosophy, and rhetoric, this book examines the influence of the philosopher Isocrates on educational thought and the history of education.

Philostratus is one of the greatest examples of the vitality and inventiveness of the Greek culture of his period, at once a one-man summation of contemporary tastes and interests and a strikingly individual re-inventor of the traditions in which he was steeped.

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Vth century BCE) is best known in the history of philosophy for his stance that there is a share of everything in everything.

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.

This is the first English translation of Simplicius' responses to Philoponus' Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World.

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.

By "e;literary criticism"e; we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art.

In the sixth and fifth centuries B.

Originally published in 1949.

Previously out of print for three years, this classic translation by the late Father Leslie J.

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.

The Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle, are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence.

Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophersWorried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too?

Adriel M.

Interdisciplinary survey of the mind-body relation, providing detailed studies of themes and figures and considering both pagan and Christian thought.

In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world.

Plato's Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people's general view of the natural world.

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

The author explores the relation between language and thought, referring to a Chinese translation of Aristotle''s Categories.

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

In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C.

In Plato's Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument.

An interesting interpretation of the historical trajectory of pre-modern mathematics.

This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.

The books in this set, originally published between 1939 and 1991: Focus on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, Study the pilgrimage of the Ancient World in its search for moral truth.

What if the world you see is only a shadow of the truth?

J.

Leadership has become a prevalent concept across a variety of disciplines, among them history, politics, management studies, economics, and psychology.

Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers.

Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato''s method of argument in the early dialogues.

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato''s Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years.