Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convin...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished tea...

Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into e...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...

The Pythagorean Precepts by Aristotle's pupil, Aristoxenus of Tarentum, present the principles of the Pythagorean way of life that Plato praised in...

Aristotle argued that citizenship is like friendship, and this book applies his argument to modern society. Modern citizens may lack the concept of...

Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling ...

Aristotle's claims that 'man is a political animal' and that political community 'exists for the sake of living well' have frequently been celebrat...

Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confi...

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....

Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering r...

Cicero is increasingly recognised as a highly intelligent contributor to the ongoing ethical debates between Epicureans, Stoics and other schools. ...

One of a pair of books selected from Stanley Rosens career as a philosopher, scholar, and teacher over the last half of a century. They represent b...

The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human e...

This book is the first extensive study of the role of the family in the work of Seneca. It offers a new way of reading philosophy that combines phi...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus...

Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical exploratio...

What is the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger? Scholarship on Seneca has often historicall...

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova...

Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality. Modernity's break with the Middle Age...