Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this w...

Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposit...

In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discoveredthe letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have b...

What kind of literature is the Talmud? To answer this question, Daniel Boyarin looks to an unlikely source: the dialogues of Plato. In these ancien...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an i...

Why Cicero Matters shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a new political world....

Ethics for Rational Animals brings to light a novel account of akrasia, practical wisdom, and character virtue through an original and comprehensiv...

An account of Socrates' encounter with divine revelation The philosopher Socrates was guided in his investigations by nothing other than his own r...

This book analyses the process of development of Byzantine thought, which carries original solutions to fundamental philosophical questions and an ...

Text in German. Philo of Alexandria was the first Middle Platonic thinker whose writings have largely survived. Otto Kaiser introduces the reader t...