Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

This volume investigates Proclus' own thought and his wide-ranging influence within late Neoplatonic, Alexandrine and Byzantinian philosophy and th...

Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are sti...

Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotles On memory and recollection and Plotinus On perception and memory (...

The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics argues that the Stoics were sophisticated metaphysical thinkers responding to Plato's Sophist and forging a bold new...

Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations   The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled per...

One of the best books ever written on the power and practicality of philosophy for building a good and successful life - Tom Morris, bestselling au...

Title first published in 2003. In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlig...

Title first published in 2003. In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlig...

This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplato...

Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the Peripatos or Lyceum, and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor...

What does life truly mean? Who do I want to become? And how do I get there? These are some of life's biggest questions that are hard to think thr...

With a new introduction placing Plato's great work at the heart of ancient concepts of human organization and justice, this new edition of The Repu...

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This installment of the distinguished RUSCH series focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers of the fourth and third centuries BCE: namely, Chamaeleo...

This monograph revisits one of the most debated aspects of Dionysian scholarship: the enigma of its authorship. To establish the identity of the au...

Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is no serious dispute among scholars that the Eudemian Ethics is authentic. The Eudemia...

First published in 1961, Forrest E. Baird's revision of Philosophic Classics continues the tradition of providing generations of students with high...

First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians. Originating f...

Hegels debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History...

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homers I...

Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did peo...

Theophrastus was Aristotle's pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Apart from two botanical works, a collection of character sketches, a...

Originally compiled and published in 1922, this volume contains three studies on Early Greek Thought: E. Hofmann's Qua Ratione; J. W. Beardslee's F...

The current study argues that different cultures can coexist better today if we focus not only on what separates them but also on what connects the...