Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Welche Rolle spielt die allegorische Exegese der drei Theologen Homer, Hesiod und Orpheus für die philosophische Systematik des spätantiken Neuplat...

This study contains the first collection of preserved fragments, in Greek and Arabic, of the peripatetic philosopher Boethus of Sidon (first centur...

Across several texts, Epicurus memorably and accessibly summarizes his doctrines. This study systematically analyzes Epicurus acts of summary, ther...

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he inv...

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them ac...

When Seneca the Younger turned his back on politics, having previously advised the increasingly volatile Emperor Nero, he became one of Rome's most...

A Platonic evangelists lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platon...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociol...

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, a...

This book examines in detail the strategic relevance of the Arthashastra. Attributed to the fourth century B.C., this classical treatise on state a...

The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic ...

Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sens...

Socrates, the largely enigmatic Greek thinker, is universally considered to have laid the foundations of western philosophy. His philosophy, availa...

An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Co...

In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing cr...

An edited text of the teaching of Adam of Bockenfield, a key figure in the history of the introduction of Aristotle's natural philosophy in England...

Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, this book illuminates our understanding of friendship in moral philosophy, moral psychology, and m...

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the...

An argument for why Platos Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws,...

In Plato's Letters, Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive note...

The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, reve...

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philos...

Unlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version...

For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex phil...