Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to th...

Wissenschaftliche Mathematik ist eine der wichtigsten Kulturleistungen des antiken Griechenland. Doch wann und wo genau hatte sie ihren Ursprung? D...

This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical a...

This book provides a critical edition as well as a French translation of the Doubts About Galen, a polemical treatise written by Ab Bakr al-Rz, one...

Die antike Philosophie bietet eine differenzierte Diskussion zu akteurs- und handlungstheoretischen Fragen. Die deutschen und englischen Beiträge d...

Die Epitome physica des Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197 nach 1269) gilt als eines der meistverbreiteten Lehrbücher aristotelischer Naturphilosophie in ...

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...

Welche Rolle spielt die allegorische Exegese der drei Theologen Homer, Hesiod und Orpheus für die philosophische Systematik des spätantiken Neuplat...

This study contains the first collection of preserved fragments, in Greek and Arabic, of the peripatetic philosopher Boethus of Sidon (first centur...

Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus acts of summary, ther...

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he inv...

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them ac...

When Seneca the Younger turned his back on politics, having previously advised the increasingly volatile Emperor Nero, he became one of Rome's most...

A Platonic evangelists lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platon...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociol...

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, a...

This book examines in detail the strategic relevance of the Arthashastra. Attributed to the fourth century B.C., this classical treatise on state a...

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic ...

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sens...

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, availa...

An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Co...

In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing cr...

An edited text of the teaching of Adam of Bockenfield, a key figure in the history of the introduction of Aristotle's natural philosophy in England...

Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and m...

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the...

An argument for why Platos Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws,...

In Plato's Letters, Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive note...

The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, reve...

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philos...

Unlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version...

For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex phil...

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

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway thr...

The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a...

Seit Dodds Anwendung des Begriffs Schamkultur auf die griechische Kultur genießt das Thema Scham die besondere Aufmerksamkeit der Gräzisten. Basier...

Our Revision Workbooks help you develop vital skills throughout your course in preparation for the exam with: One-to-one page match with the Revi...

Im vorliegenden Band führt Christoph Markschies seine Studien zur Geschichte der Valentinianischen Gnosis, einer der einflussreichsten Schulen der ...

Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy  [Rober...

This new critical edition aims to provide a new standard text of Apuleius' De Deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, and De mundo, allowing read...

Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue, moderation and self-discipline, adapting this ancient knowled...

Contents: I. Eidos. II. Demon and Eros. III. Beyond Being. IV. The Academy. V. The Written Work. VI. Socrates in Plato. VII. Irony. VIII. Dialogue....

In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and pr...