Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

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...

This collection of essays explores the rhetoric and practices surrounding views on life after death and the end of the world, including the fate of...

Dialogues and Debates from Late Antiquity to Late Byzantium offers the first overall discussion of the literary and philosophical dialogue traditio...

This title was first published in 2001. A collection of fifteen studies which explore topics in the psychology and philosophy of mind of Plotinus, ...

Published in 1987: The following essays form, as their title-page shows, only the first half of a collection which the writer hopes to complete in ...

Agent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality....

Few philosophers present themselves with as much complexity as Marcus Tullius Cicero. At once a philosopher, statesman, orator, and lawyer, Cicero ...

Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates is an account of the role friendship plays in ancient political thought. Examining Platonic dialogues and Aristot...

Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing ph...

This work is the first English translation of Scotuss commentary on Aristotles Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin c...

Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despi...

This volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than s...

Marsilio Ficino (14331499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficinos comment...

A history of philosophy in twelve thinkersThe whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is a...

Are we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruc...

Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times. This summary of Hegel's sy...

Imperial Plato presents new translations of three introductions to Platos thought from the second half of the second century CE: the Introduction t...

Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussi...

Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the titl...