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Plato's Republic [Hardback]
D.J. Sheppard (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780748627783
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This volume provides a concise introduction to Plato's famous Republic , and summarises current interpretations of the dialogue. It takes the form of a commentary on the text presented throughout in English. .... Learn More -
Plato's Republic [Paperback]
D.J. Sheppard (Author)
£12.99ISBN: 9780748627790
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This volume provides a concise introduction to Plato's famous Republic , and summarises current interpretations of the dialogue. It takes the form of a commentary on the text presented throughout in English. .... Learn More -
Simplicius: On Aristotle On The Heavens 3.1-7 [Hardback]
I. Mueller (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780715638439
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The subject of Aristotles On the Heavens, Books 3-4, is the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, which exist below the heavens. Book 3, in chapters 1 to 7, frequently criticises the Presocratic philosophers. Because of this Simplicius' ... .... Learn More -
Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 3.7-4.6 [Hardback]
I. Mueller (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780715638446
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
Commenting on the end of Aristotle On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle's criticisms of Platos theory of elemental chemistry in the Timaeus. Plato makes the characteristics of the four elements depend on the shapes of component... .... Learn More -
Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9 [Hardback]
Catherine Osborne (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780715637876
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
In the chapters discussed in this section of Philoponus Physics commentary Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter,... .... Learn More -
Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2 [Hardback]
Owen Goldin (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780715637883
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The Posterior Analytics is a difficult text, raising may problems concerning how to construe individual sentences, particular arguments, whole lines of argument, and different aspects of the comprehensive theory of scientific understanding tha... .... Learn More -
Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle [Paperback]
Miira Tuominen (Author)
Regular Price: £17.99
Special Price: £6.95
ISBN: 9780520260276
Published by : University of California Press
In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these commentaries were understood chiefly as sources... .... Learn More -
Introducing Greek Philosophy [Hardback]
M. R. Wright (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781844651825
Published by : Acumen Publishing
This book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from ... .... Learn More -
Introducing Greek Philosophy [Paperback]
M. R. Wright (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9781844651832
Published by : Acumen Publishing
This book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from ... .... Learn More -
Seneca and the Self [Hardback]
Shadi Bartsch (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780521888387
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This new collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical selfhood. The contributors explore the mai... .... Learn More