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Works: v. 6 by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£23.74Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus by Lloyd Gerson
£27.80Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 62 by Victor Caston 9780192885265
RRP: £25.00£22.54Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and... -
Descriptions by Callistratus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Artful descriptions.This volume presents kindred works important for evidence relating to late Greek art. They are attributed to two men each known as Philostratus and to a third man called Callistratus, otherwise unknown. To an elder Philostratus, the... -
On Academic Scepticism by Cicero 9780872207745
RRP: £18.99£15.33Charles Brittain's elegant new translation of Cicero's Academica makes available for the first time a readable and accurate translation into modern English of this complex yet crucial source of our knowledge of the epistemological debates between the... -
How Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato's Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic by Laurence Lampert
RRP: £36.00£34.83Plato's dialogues show Socrates at different ages, beginning when he was about nineteen and already deeply immersed in philosophy and ending with his execution five decades later. By presenting this model philosopher across a fifty-year span of his life,... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780941051545
RRP: £12.99£10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051545Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 227g -
Republic by Plato 9780195003642
RRP: £48.99£45.89Essestially an inquiry into morality, the Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Containing crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy, it is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is... -
Ennead: Bk. 7 by Plotinus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded... -
First Principles by Ricks Thomas . E
RRP: £29.99£20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062997456Author Ricks Thomas . EFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy by Myrto Garani
£97.77Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical... -
Metaphysics by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£22.92First things.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of... -
Physics: Bks. 5-8 by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£22.92Natural causes.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the court... -
Aristotle's Ethics by James O. Urmson
RRP: £36.95£32.51Aristotle's ethical writings are among the world's greatest, but are easily misunderstood by the inexperienced. Professor Urmson, after 50 years of study, provides a clear account of the main doctrines in an easily intelligible way and without dwelling... -
The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic by Gerasimos Santas 9781405115643
RRP: £31.95£28.29The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic consists of thirteen new essays written by both established scholars and younger researchers with the specific aim of helping readers to understand Plato's masterwork. This guide to Plato's Republic is designed... -
Plato's Symposium: The Ethics of Desire by Frisbee Sheffield 9780199567812
RRP: £47.99£47.90Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with... -
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creating Change by Armand D'Angour 9780691213736
RRP: £13.99£10.85What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient GreeksWhen it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and... -
Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato 9780872206342
RRP: £32.99£26.63The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.About the... -
A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues by Plato 9781603848114
RRP: £24.99£22.18A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube,... -
Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of David Charles by David Bronstein 9780198908678
RRP: £103.00£93.18This volume provides a rich collection of original essays on Aristotle's metaphysics written by sixteen prominent scholars in the field. Honouring the seminal influence of David Charles to philosophical scholarship, it offers fresh interpretations and... -
Richard Rufus of Cornwall: In Aristotelis De generatione et corruptione by Neil Lewis 9780197264997
£80.44Richard Rufus of Cornwall was an early Scholastic philosopher-theologian who taught at the Universities of Paris and Oxford between 1231 and 1255. In those years he played a vital part in the transformation of philosophy and theology in early... -
Enchiridion: The Handbook by Epictetus 9781911052104
RRP: £8.00£5.23The Enchiridion (‘handbook’) of Epictetus is one of the most well-known and best-loved works of ancient Greek literature. Based on the solid theoretical foundation of Stoic thought, this is indeed a highly accessible handbook giving practical advice on... -
Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice by Merrick Anderson 9780197267660
£76.11Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice introduces new research about the first secular discussions concerning the value of justice from the Western Tradition. In Part I, Anderson addresses the debates of the sophists, a group of... -
Ethics for Rational Animals: The Moral Psychology at the Basis of Aristotle's Ethics by Dr Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi 9780198886846
RRP: £70.00£63.74Ethics for Rational Animals brings to light a novel account of akrasia, practical wisdom, and character virtue through an original and comprehensive study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It argues that practical wisdom is a... -
Plotinus Ennead II.9: Against the Gnostics: Translation, with an Introduction, and Commentary by Sebastian Gertz 9781930972377
RRP: £46.95£29.65How 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 Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality-it is the evil... -
The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman by Mitchell Miller 9781930972162
RRP: £34.95£21.99In the Statesman, Plato brings together-only to challenge and displace-his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reissued here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis... -
To Think Like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides, The Origins of Philosophy by Arnold Hermann 9781930972001
RRP: £46.95£32.21To Think Like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C.E. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his... -
The Language of Love: An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus by Stanley Rosen 9781587314544
RRP: £30.00£25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314544Author Stanley RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's Press -
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking by Kenneth Maly 9781487556075
RRP: £83.00£78.29A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries – beginning with the late... -
Plato and Aristophanes: Comedy, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Just Life by Marina Marren 9780810144187
RRP: £34.95£28.78In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such... -
Perception in Aristotle's Ethics by Eve Rabinoff 9780810136427
RRP: £34.95£28.78Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle's accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and... -
Socrates among Strangers by Joseph P. Lawrence 9780810131699
RRP: £34.95£33.55In Socrates among Strangers, Joseph P. Lawrence reclaims the enigmatic sage from those who have seen him either as a prophet of science, seeking the security of knowledge, or as a wily actor who shed light on the dangerous world of politics while... -
Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato's Many Devices by Gary Alan Scott 9780810123540
RRP: £60.00£56.66Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably, the question arises: if Plato wanted to present collections of arguments, why did he write dialogues... -
Substance, Body and Soul: Aristotelian Investigations by Edwin M. Hartman 9780691642079
£114.85Edwin Hartman explores Aristotle's metaphysical assumptions as they illuminate his thought and some issues of current philosophical significance. The author's analysis of the theory of the soul treats such topics of lively debate as ontological primacy,... -
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium by Leo Strauss 9780226776859
£97.05In this volume Leo Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of Plato's "Symposium", proceeding by meticulous reading, from beginning to end. Strauss, operating on the idea that commentary is an useful method of expounding the truth, sheds... -
The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion by James L. Kastely 9780226278629
£39.56Plato isn't exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist. In this book, James L. Kastely recasts Plato in just these lights, offering a vivid new reading of one of Plato's most important works:... -
The Powers of Aristotle's Soul by Thomas Kjeller Johansen 9780199658435
RRP: £99.00£92.50Aristotle is considered by many to be the founder of 'faculty psychology'-the attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to a few inborn capacities. In The Powers of Aristotle's Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen investigates his... -
Platonic Patterns: A Collection of Studies by Holger Thesleff by Holger Thesleff 9781930972292
RRP: £75.00£48.15Platonic Patterns is a reprint collection of many of Holger Thesleff's studies in Plato spanning from 1967 to 2003. It includes three books, four articles and a new introduction by the author, which sets the general outline of his interpretation of Plato... -
The Verge of Philosophy by John Sallis 9780226734316
£29.30"The Verge of Philosophy" is both an exploration of the limits of philosophy and a memorial for John Sallis' longtime friend and interlocutor Jacques Derrida. The centerpiece of the book is an extended examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his... -
Philosophy as Agon: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts by Robert Metcalf 9780810137981
RRP: £99.00£80.47In Philosophy as Agon: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended...