Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B.

Katja Maria Vogt's Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about the difference between belief and knowledge.

Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English.

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

Was Plato a Pythagorean?

This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

In this book, Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space-a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God.

Stoic Warriors explores the relationship between soldiers and Stoic philosophy, exploring what Stoicism actually is, the role it plays in the character of the military (both ancient and modern), and its powerful value as a philosophy of life.

Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529.

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius.

Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories.

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

An investigation of the multiple meanings and functions of sacrifice in diverse religious texts and practices from the late Hellenistic and Roman imperial periods.

Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English.

Aristotle is known as a philosopher and as a theorist of poetry, but he was also a composer of songs and verse.

Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview.

Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life.

Most people think that the difficulty of balancing career and personal/family relationships is the fault of present-day society or is due to their own inadequacies.

Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher.

Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer.

Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas.

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity.

In the sixth and fifth centuries B.

Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529.

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

This book offers a new argument for the ancient claim that well-being as the highest prudential good -- eudaimonia --consists of happiness in a virtuous life.

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life.

Plotinus on Number studies the fundamental role which number plays in the architecture of the universe in Neoplatonic philosophy.

The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the 1970s.

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

How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience?

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

Are the just happier than the unjust?

Scholarship on Plato's dialogues persistently divides its focus between the dramatic or literary and the philosophical or argumentative dimensions of the texts.

The notions of the cosmic city and the common law are central to early Stoic political thought.

Ever since "e;Know Thyself"e; was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest.

By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture.

Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology.

Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world.

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time.

In this study, Levin explores Plato's engagement with the Greek literary tradition in his treatment of key linguistic issues.

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius.

In this book, Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space-a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God.

In the past quarter century, enormous philosophical attention has been paid to Plato's "e;Socratic"e; dialogues, as interpreters have sought to identify which dialogues are truly Socratic and interpret and defend the moral theories they find in those works.

This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "e;How ought we to live?

Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories.