Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Listening to the Philosophers offers the first comprehensive look into how philosophy was taught in antiquity through a stimulating study of lectur...

Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Gre...

In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thi...

Seneca the Younger was a playwright, essayist, lecturer (and tutor to the emperor Nero) who remains one of the most important Stoic philosophers. E...

Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece. The book introduces the lives of the ancient Gre...

This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which...

This new series of scholarly reflections on the interpretation of Socratic philosophy is an inviting combination of intuition and meticulous analy...

A pioneering work in the history of philosophy, the ancient text of the Lives presents engaging portraits of nearly a hundred Greek philosophers. I...

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage w...

The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and di...

From Aristotle to Darwin, from ancient teleology to contemporary genealogies, this book offers an overview of the birth and then persistence of Ari...

What is mathematics about? And how can we have access to the reality it is supposed to describe? The book tells the story of this problem, first ra...

What is mathematics about? And how can we have access to the reality it is supposed to describe? The book tells the story of this problem, first ra...

Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy offers a new account of Plato's view of eros, or romantic love, by focusing on a question which has vexed ma...

Plato, in the Protagoras, suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Rea...

Aristotle offers a searing rejection of Plato's commitment to a Form of the Good; core among his complaints is that goodness is not univocal, that ...