Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing ph...

This work is the first English translation of Scotuss commentary on Aristotles Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin c...

Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despi...

This volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than s...

Marsilio Ficino (14331499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficinos comment...

A history of philosophy in twelve thinkersThe whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is a...

Are we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruc...

Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times. This summary of Hegel's sy...

Imperial Plato presents new translations of three introductions to Platos thought from the second half of the second century CE: the Introduction t...

Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussi...

Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the titl...