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Aristotle Ethica Eudemia by R. R. Walzer 9780198145752
£54.99BLWith new text and full apparatus criticus The Eudemian Ethics was one of two ethical treatises which Aristotle wrote on the subject of ethica or `matters to do with character'. Although the two works cover much the same ground, the Nicomachean... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title is... -
Epictetus's 'Encheiridion': A New Translation and Guide to Stoic Ethics Scott Aikin (Vanderbilt University, USA) 9781350009516
RRP: £17.99£16.05For anyone approaching the Encheiridion of Epictetus for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding a complex philosophical text. Including a full translation and clear explanatory commentaries, Epictetus's... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Phaedo by Plato 9780941051699
RRP: £12.99£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051699Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 141g -
Learning to Live Naturally: Stoic Ethics and its Modern Significance by Christopher Gill 9780198866169
RRP: £112.50£101.64At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism among scholars and the general public, this book offers a sustained examination of the core Stoic ethical claims and their significance for modern moral theory. The first part considers the Stoic ideas of... -
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by Macrobius
RRP: £30.00£23.29'Book InformationISBN 9780231096287Author MacrobiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: by Diogenes Laertius by Pamela Mensch
RRP: £44.49£40.37Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work covers a larger number of figures and a longer period of time than any other extant ancient source,... -
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.09A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus,... -
A Companion to Plato's Republic by Nicholas P. White 9780915144921
RRP: £15.99£13.36A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic. White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections among its elements, and the coherent and carefully developed train of though which motivates its... -
Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39Socrates without Plato.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BC to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle
RRP: £14.00£13.96One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord's justly acclaimed translation has served as the standard English edition... -
Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology: A Study of Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides by Shaul Tor
RRP: £36.99£30.33This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it rethinks fundamentally the emergence of systematic epistemology and reflection on speculative... -
Aristotle by Christopher Shields 9780415622493
RRP: £25.99£23.03In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the... -
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £16.99£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466646Author Thomas NailFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life by A. A. Long
RRP: £31.49£27.18The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient... -
Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience by Nancy Sherman
RRP: £23.49£16.61How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what we most value? Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others, Nancy Sherman's... -
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction by Michael Pakaluk 9780521520683
RRP: £34.99£30.33This is an engaging and accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy. Michael Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of the entire work, uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views... -
Plato's "Symposium" by Seth Benardete
£13.50Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth... -
When Philosophers Rule: Ficino on Plato's Republic, Laws and Epinomis by Arthur Farndell 9780856832574
RRP: £18.95£16.95Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance-who translated all the... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Helene Landemore 9780691212395
RRP: £20.00£15.89"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."-Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in... -
In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley 9781890350017
RRP: £14.99£9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890350017Author Peter KingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Publisher Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: £14.99£10.98One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights... -
Memorize the Stoics!: The Ancient Art of Memory Meets the Timeless Art of Living by Kevin Vost 9781621388296
RRP: £16.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388296Author Kevin VostFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine J. L. Schellenberg 9780198912323
RRP: £30.00£25.95Classical Christian ideas loom large in philosophy of religion today. But arguments against Christian doctrine have been neglected. J. L. Schellenberg's new book remedies this neglect. And it does so in a novel way, by linking facts about human... -
The Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: £8.99£6.45'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life... -
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes
RRP: £30.99£25.22Aristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition of... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Western Greek Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.39A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
RRP: £24.95£23.39From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled ... -
Republic, Volume II: Books 6-10 by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In ... -
Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4: with the fragments of Aristotle, On Poets by Richard Janko
£53.68The On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC) survived amid the library of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The papyrus-rolls in this, the only... -
Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Michael Davis 9781587312083
RRP: £16.00£15.77Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles with problems that bear his indelible mark. In the extant... -
The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Proclus 9780198140979
RRP: £32.99£28.50Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed form; and for the student of late Greek thought second in importance only to the Enneads of Plotinus. Professor Dodds has provided a critical text based on... -
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks Simone Weil 9781032533995
RRP: £16.99£15.22Simone Weil (1909-1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist... -
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity by Algis U'Zdavinys 9781597310864
£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597310864Author Algis U'ZdavinysFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle came to work. Aristotle was the greatest... -
Topics Books I and VIII: With excerpts from related texts by Aristotle 9780198239451
£57.29The Topics is Aristotle's treatise on dialectical argument, a practice perhaps as old as human language, systemized for the first time by Aristotle. This seminal text offers many important insights into his conception of logic, his development of the... -
The Sun-Tzu - the Art of Warfare: The First English Translation Incorporating the Recently Discovered Yin-Ch'Eueh-Shan Texts / Tr. [from Chinese] by Roger T.Ames. by Roger Ames
RRP: £26.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345362391Author Roger T. AmesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 618gDimensions(mm)...