Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

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...

How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus Against the Gnostics. For the Gnost...

The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it was with Aristotle that it acquired, together with ene...

This series in the field of classics grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal is to collect, edit, and comment on ...

This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelli...

Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern wo...

Plotinus Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as a...

This is the first modern edition of Book X of the Historia Animalium. It argues that the first five chapters are a summary, from the hand of Aristo...

Ennead IV.4.3045 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with...

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient...

The much-anticipated anthology on Platos TimaeusPlatos singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the...

Discovered in Egypt in 1945, the fascinating and challenging Nag Hammadi writings forever changed our understanding of early Christianity. State-of...

The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme provides a historical-logical analysis of Aristotles rhetorical syllogism, the enthymeme, through its Medieval...

Exploring Aristotles concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the...

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts i...

How does ideology function and, more importantly, how can we resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these questions by applyi...