Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the worlds first systematic political philosopher, but also the western worlds first think-tank acti...

Discover Sun Tz's The Art of War with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Art of War...

Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of the twin pillars of Platonism the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Tr...

This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is inform...

The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple reviv...

Plutarchs writings, for a long time treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods and authors, are now studied in their own right. T...

Shadow Philosophy: Platos Cave and Cinema is an accessible and exciting new contribution to film-philosophy, which shows that to take film seriousl...

If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancie...

Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations...

In Living Chinese Philosophy, Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology (the scienc...

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammati...

In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democra...

In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of...

This volume offers a detailed interpretation of Platos texts and Platonic philosophy in its various forms and shapes as a living force in the histo...

Thought experiments by ancient philosophers are often open to debate: in what sense did their reasoning really concern thought experimentation? For...

The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entir...

This book investigates one of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas. While the first chapter briefly retraces the history of humanitas from it...

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to todays 24/7 ...

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to todays 24/7 ...

Grow in wisdom with this practical guide to Stoic philosophy for modern day-to-day lifeDiscover the path to a more contented, fulfilled life throug...

How did Collingwood become Collingwood? It is by thinking through the nature of persons, art, play, history, archaeology, anthropology, ideas, perc...

Aristotle's Induction and the Inference of First Principles observes that Aristotles reputation as an empiricist has come under threat. In the Post...

A transcript of Leo Strausss key seminars on Platos Protagoras.   This book offers a transcript of Strausss seminar on Platos Protagoras taught at ...

Philosophy at the Gymnasium returns Greek moral philosophy to its original contextthe gyms of Athensto understand how training for the body sparked...

Philosophy at the Gymnasium returns Greek moral philosophy to its original contextthe gyms of Athensto understand how training for the body sparked...

thales of Miletus (7th-6th centuries BC) is regarded as one of the most important figures in Greek philosophy and science. In spite of this we know...