Ancient

ISBN: 9781844650132
Published by : Acumen Publishing
This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of philosophy and discusses its proponent, its cont... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780791463734
Published by : State University of New York Press
The term phusis has been defined as meaning simply `nature', but what did early Greek philosophers mean by the term? In this book, which is a revised English edition of the French original (published in 1992), Gerard Naddaf explores the historic... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780745629582
Published by : Polity Press
Robert Juette's introduction explores the recent revival in the popularity of the senses, rather unsurprisingly featuring prominently in marketing campaigns, on TV and the Internet, but also in museum exhibitions. This history of ideas, attitud... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789608818316
Published by : Institute for Philosophical Research
Papers from the Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Tertium Myconense held in Mykonos, 6th - 13th July 2003. The theme was Empedocles' conception of Kosmos , and contributors look at his theory on the foundation, order, and development of the world... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780954384593
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes's book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520233256
Published by : University of California Press
Cleomedes, philosopher and teacher, delivered a series of lectures to his students on the subject of astronomy around AD 200. The importance accorded these lectures is not one based on merit but on uniqueness as it is rare to find an intact text f... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780472113279
Published by : University of Michigan Press
The interpretation of the past by 4th-century historians `as a series of moral paradigms' had a major impact on later Greek and Roman historians. Frances Pownall's study presents an analysis of 4th-century authors and their texts within the contex... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780472113880
Published by : University of Michigan Press
Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers , written in the 3rd century AD, is an invaluable if rather salacious collection of biographies of Greek philosophers, in which Diogenes recorded every snippet of information he had ever heard. Thi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515083966
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
This volume provides the Greek text with facing English translation of Plato's 31st Socratic Letter. This letter was composed in response to Philip II's hostility towards Plato for his meddling in Macedonian affairs and, as a result, his withd... .... Learn More