Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

This book explores the circumstances surrounding Socrates death, critically analysing conflicting sources to establish a framework for understandin...

New perspectives on Epicureanism in the fields of Epistemology and Ethics.Epicurean philosophy is a philosophy of knowledge, nature and pleasure. T...

Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant to entail. It...

Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity. His writings contain the most subtle and detailed versions of the ancient...

This book argues that Aristotle's aporia on time in the Physics figures both as an aporia in the subjective sense of a mental state of perplexity a...

A compelling account of the continuing legacy of Greek writers and thinkers in the age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of...

Why did Greek tragedy and the tragic come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandin...

The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the second volume of a groundbreaking ...

In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and ...

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires peo...

A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy ...

Why philosophy was politics by other means for Rome's greatest statesmanIn the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's d...

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time. A pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, his work is foundational ...

In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from t...