Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary p...

This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandis comprehensive new edition o...

Gorgiass Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgiass epistemological thought and p...

This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine bet...

Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in ...

Origen has been always studied as a theologian and too much credit has been given to Eusebius implausible hagiography of him. This book explores wh...

In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica, the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collec...

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the sou...

Boethius is largely underrated in the history of Western thought. Scholarship often regarded him and his era Late Antiquity as mere intermediaries...

Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously situated at the fraught scene of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in conte...

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together...

Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, st...

Ever since Vlastos Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought, scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention...

This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that phil...

Der Band nimmt gewisse, mit dem Begriff Theurgie assoziierte Wandlungen innerhalb des spätantiken Neuplatonismus in den Blick. Theurgie wird vor al...

Numerous thinkers have considered the Principle of Non-Contradiction, but none has clearly identified its inherent limitation: that it is itself on...