Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is prefer...

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to m...

The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to m...

All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of ...

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, acco...

Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern soc...

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

This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelli...

In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy...

In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripidess revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversi...

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied...

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied...

In Plato's Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind's eye the eternal and purely...

Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the Epicurean influence on Spinoza has profou...

The Athens of Socrates's time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet this city put Socrate...

This celebratory Festschrift dedicated to Charles Kahn comprises some 23 articles by friends, former students and colleagues, many of whom first pr...

The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical ...

In Aristotles Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotles natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored. She shows t...

A compendium of ruminations and reflections by thesecond-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the Stoic philosophy. It is a...

This concise anthology of primary sources designed for use in an ancient philosophy survey ranges from the Presocratics to Plato, Aristotle, the He...

'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of...

A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works-- Euthyphro , Apology , Crito , Meno , Phaedo , Symposium , Phaedrus , and Republic --unabr...

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, rough...

Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy. It prov...

Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and ...