Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

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

This new translation of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristot...

Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice introduces new research about the first secular discussions concerning the value of j...

This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel res...

We still pay homage to one of the most relevant philosophies ever devised when we call someone stoic for the way they handle the challenges in thei...

This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he fo...

People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone - or oneself - was tr...

According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing t...

Even those already familiar with Aristotle may be surprised to learn that discussions of theological topics can be found in so many of his works. R...

?Happiness is not a comfortable state of well-being, but an energetic and carefully considered endeavour to lead a rich and meaningful life. Fe...

In God as Reason: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Vittorio Hösle presents a systematic exploration of the relation between theology and philosoph...

Ciceros Practical Philosophy marks a revival over the last two generations of serious scholarly interest in Ciceros political thought. Its nine ori...

Augustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions. Paul Kolbet uncover...

The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for un...

This new translation of Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, noteworthy for its consistency and accuracy, is the latest addition to the New Hackett Aristot...

A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) h...

Plotinus Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve...

Deeply erudite but also playful and full of wit. Salman Rushdie Fashion | Sense is designed to explode fashion, and with it, the stigma in philos...

In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers. It is for this re...

Few surviving works of classical literature have cast the haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie spell conjured by the Satyricon of the Neronia...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, der bedeutendste Redner, Staatsmann und Philosoph Roms, prägt mit seinen beiden politischen Hauptwerken De re publica und De...

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...