Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Among the most important, but frequently neglected, figures in the history of debates over skepticism is Augustine of Hippo (354430 CE). His early ...

Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings is designed as an approachable guide to the most important and influential works of ancient ph...

An authoritative new translation of Plato's The Republic by Christopher Rowe, with notes and an introduction.'We set about founding the best city w...

'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly'The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argue...

Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However...

'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen'How can we cope when life's events seem beyond ...

Leo Strauss famously asserted that the fundamental, defining debate within Western civilization is that between Jerusalem and Athens, piety and phi...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial leng...

The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this twentieth volume, ten renowned...

Profiles of Power: Philosopher-Kings, Princes, and Supermen examines the concept of power in the form of three iconic personifications: Platos Phil...

An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed ...

Antisthenes (c. 445- c. 365 BC), was a prominent follower of Socrates and bitter rival of Plato. In this revisionary account of his philosophy in a...

Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was thre...

The conflict of religions during the Christianization of the Greco-Roman aristocracy in Late Antiquity is typified by Synesius (ca. A.D. 365/70414?...

Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long caree...

Die Tabulae Vindobonenses und Summaria Alexandrinorum sind Unterrichtswerke aus dem spätantiken Alexandria (5.-7. Jh.). Diese Werke waren als Ergän...

This new translation of On Coming to Be and Passing Away and Meteorology 1 and 4 fits seamlessly with the other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotl...

By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible,...

In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does no...

This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of imp...

Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to have to borrow...

How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat othersand ourselvesmore fairly and mercifully There are times when weve all felt that we havent bee...

Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate a...

In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual res...

Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation traditions. Philosophical ...

The book contains a new critical edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium and an English translation of the new text by Benjamin ...

In Living toward Virtue, Paul Woodruff shows how we can set about living ethically through self-questioning, which enables us to avoid moral injury...

Philosophy means the love of wisdom. Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates to help the reader grow in that love. He says that no master of the art ...

Antisthenes was famous in antiquity for his studies of Homers poems, his affiliation with Gorgias and the sophistic movement, his pure Attic writin...

A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I, is the first English-language commentary on the Latin text of Marcus Tullius Ciceros dialogue in almost o...

Confronting the scientific revolutions dismissal of Aristotles physics and epistemology, Nathan R. Colaner revives this foundational philosophers w...

This study of the Confessions engages with contemporary philosophers and psychologists antagonistic to religion and demonstrates the enduring value...

The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimen...