Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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

This important commentary by Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's work on biochemistry was previously lost.

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity.

This exciting new textbook provides a sophisticated examination of the Socratic method for teaching political science students in higher education.

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

A comprehensive and wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world.

This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of the individual, apocalyptic speculation and hope for cosmological renewal, in a wide range of societies from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Byzantine era.

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the views of the Ancient Greeks on the central foundation myths of their civilisation.

In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work.

One of the most important developments in modern moral philosophy is the resurgence of interest in the virtues.

This book studies the pilgrimage of the Ancient World in its search for moral truth.

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism.

Exploring the political ideology of Republicanism under the Roman emperors of the first century AD, Sam Wilkinson puts forward the hypothesis that there was indeed opposition to the political structure and ideology of the rulers on the grounds of Republicanism.

This book argues that late antiquity introduced a legal form of punitive imprisonment, complicating the concept of the ''birth of the prison''.

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This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment.

Sprache und Schmerz werden üblicherweise als Gegensätze gedacht: Auf der einen Seite die Sprache, die sich mit Ausdruck und Kommunikation befasst und Beziehungen herstellt, während der Schmerz auf der anderen Seite gerade nicht mit Worten auszudrücken, zerstörerisch und isolierend ist.

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers.

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry.

Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, etc.

Originally published in 1932, and therefore inevitably of its time, this book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth.

Comprehensive and in-depth study of this important text, the first book of Aristotle''s foundational treatise on natural philosophy.

Modern studies of classical utopian thought are usually restricted to the Republic and Laws of Plato, producing the impression that Greek speculation about ideal states was invariably authoritarian and hierarchical.

Why does a wine glass break when you drop it, whereas a steel goblet does not?

This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations.

This valuable work of reference provides a comprehensive bibliography on all scholarly work that was published on Plato and Socrates during the years 1958-73.

Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest.

More than 2,400 years after his death, Socrates remains an iconic but controversial figure.

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

The word 'rationality' and its cognates, like 'reason', have multiple contexts and connotations.

This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.

This seventh edition of Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers.

A completely accessible but thought-provoking 2007 introduction to one of the greatest of Latin poets, Lucretius.

This book, originally published in 1965, discusses the political implication of the spread of science in antiquity.

The first ever book-length study of the influential Stoic concept of wisdom.

Explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals.

The purpose of this book, first published in 1957, is to make a critical analysis of the controversial Socratic problem.

'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy.

Women in Plato's Political Theory argues that Plato's philosophy is a gendered philosophy; it contains within its basic tenets notions associated with masculinity.

A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius'' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique and profoundly influential work.

The study of creativity is as old as western thought.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response.

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The first comprehensive guide in English to ''Middle'' Platonism, based on a wealth of source-texts in English translation.

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An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophersSocrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age.

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science.

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written.