Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Aristotle's Meteorology Book 4 provides an account of the formation of minerals, metals and other homogeneous stuffs.

This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution to both global Aristotelian studies and studies of Japanese philosophical traditions.

Listening is a social process.

Presents the best scholarship on Augustine''s Confessions which will facilitate a better understanding of this masterpiece.

Platons Höhlengleichnis ist weit mehr als nur eine philosophische Allegorie – es ist ein zeitloser Schlüssel zum Verständnis der menschlichen Wahrnehmung und der Suche nach Wahrheit.

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

There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato.

What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient GreeksWhen it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks.

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

Frank A.

This title was first published in 2002.

For Socrates, philosophy is not like Christian conversion from error to truth, but rather it is like the pagan process whereby a young man is initiated into cult mysteries by a more experienced man - the mystagogos - who prepares him and leads him to the sacred precinct.

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.

This book provides an exhaustive overview of the ontology of relations.

How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China?

It has been much disputed to what extent thinkers in Greek and Roman antiquity adhered to ideas of evolution and progress in human affairs.

Xenophanes of Colophon was a philosophical poet who lived in various cities of the ancient Greek world during the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC.

This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's Categories.

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.

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

Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy.

In his commentary on a portion of Aristotle's de Anima (On the Soul) known as de Intellectu (On the Intellect), Philoponus drew on both Christian and Neoplatonic traditions as he reinterpreted Aristotle's views on such key questions as the immortality of the soul, the role of images in thought, the character of sense perception and the presence within the soul of universals.

Das (Neo-)Sokratische Gespräch ist eine philosophische Unterrichtsmethode, die auf Leonard Nelson zurückgeht und von Gustav Heckmann weiterentwickelt wurde.

Spanning the twentieth century, this 4-volume set contains titles originally published between 1935 and 1990.

In this engaging introduction, Constance Meinwald shows how Plato has shaped the landscape of Western philosophy.

Early in his career, Fernand Brunner became one of the few specialists on Ibn Gabirol, a Jewish philosopher and poet in 11th-century Spain, whose treatise, the Fons vitae, is known only in Latin translation.

A guide to the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans.

A new collection of thirteen essays, covering the reception of Aristotle''s ethics from the ancient world to the twentieth century.

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.

Hailed as lucid and magisterial by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.

For over two millennia, the Cyropaedia, an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work and considered his masterpiece.

A collection of essays bringing diverse approaches to Plato into conversation in the spirit of its honorand, Christopher Rowe.

Elijah Del Medigo (1458-1493) was a Jewish Aristotelian philosopher living in Padua, whose work influenced many of the leading philosophers of the early Renaissance.

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An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.

By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations.

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch.

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models.

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought.

Julie K.

One of the arguments in Aristotle's On the Heavens propounds that the world neither came to be nor will perish.

Many contemporary philosophers develop political theories in an attempt to justify the societies that we currently live in.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der antiken Mythen und kosmischen Ursprünge!

This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek and Roman ethics.

Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World explores the relationship between the work of the Italian Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the study of classical antiquity.

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice.

Stoicism was a key philosophical movement in the Hellenistic period.