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Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley 9780520260061
RRP: £30.00£22.82The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was... -
Poems and Letters: v. 2 by Sidonius
RRP: £24.95£22.92Belles lettres.Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallo-Roman, was born at Lugdunum (Lyon) about AD 430. He married Papianilla, daughter of the Emperor Avitus in whose honor he recited at Rome on 1 January 456 a panegyric in verse. Sidonius later joined a... -
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought by Tae-Yeoun Keum
RRP: £35.95£28.81Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the HumanitiesWinner of the Istvan Hont Book PrizeAn ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato's basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical... -
The Little Book of Hermetic Principles: Heal Your Energy, Seek Enlightenment, and Deepen Your Understanding of Your Mind, Body, and Spirit by Amber D Browne
RRP: £15.99£9.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646043118Author Amber D. BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press -
The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy by Christopher Shields 9780631222156
RRP: £31.95£28.69The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive treatment of the principal figures and movements of philosophy from its origins before Socrates, through the towering achievements of Plato and Aristotle, and into its final developments... -
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780915145799
RRP: £10.99£8.76Includes a translator's Introduction, selected bibliography, note on the text, glossary of technical Terms, and a biographical inde.Book InformationISBN 9780915145799Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Hackett Publishing Co,... -
Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Parmenides by Proclus 9780691180403
RRP: £88.00£68.57This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist... -
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Richard Bett 9780691206042
RRP: £13.99£11.15How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking... -
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: £45.00£35.07Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to... -
Plato's Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the Republic by Sarah Broadie
£75.12Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the good. With detailed arguments Sarah Broadie explains how, if we think of the form of the good as... -
The Stoic Idea of the City by Malcolm Schofield
RRP: £30.00£29.25The Stoic Idea of the City offers the first systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrating on Zeno's Republic. Renowned classical scholar Malcolm Schofield brings together scattered and underused textual evidence, examining the Stoic ideals that... -
Plato: Laws 10: Translated with an introduction and commentary by Robert Mayhew
£29.71The Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. Although it has been neglected (compared to such works as the Republic and Symposium), it is beginning to receive a great deal of scholarly attention. Book 10 of the Laws contains Plato's fullest defence of... -
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility: Character and Cause by Susan Sauve Meyer 9780199697427
RRP: £29.99£25.76This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauve Meyer's 1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a... -
Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond by Julia Annas
RRP: £25.99£23.38Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach... -
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 4: Ennead III, Part 1 by Marsilio Ficino
RRP: £29.95£23.19Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin... -
Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics by Graziano Ranocchia 9783110554762
RRP: £15.50£14.27Historically speaking, the majority of efforts in the study of ancient Greek physics have traditionally been devoted either to the analysis of the surviving evidence concerning Presocratic philosophers or to the systematic examination of the Platonic and... -
Understanding Plato's Republic by Gerasimos Santas 9781405120180
RRP: £27.95£24.25Understanding Plato's Republic is an accessible introduction to the concepts of justice that inform Plato's Republic, elucidating the ancient philosopher's main argument that we would be better off leading just lives rather than unjust ones. Provides a... -
Heraclitus: Fragments by Heraclitus
RRP: £33.00£28.50The Phoenix Pre-Socratic series is designed for modern students of the Pre-Socratic philosophers. This volume provides the Greek text of Heraclitus with a new, facing page translation together with a commentary outlining the main problems of... -
Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind by Nancy Sherman 9780195315912
RRP: £13.99£11.43While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism guides the actions of many in the military. Soldiers and seamen learn early in their training "to suck it... -
The Enneads of Plotinus: A Commentary Volume 2 by Paul Kalligas
RRP: £75.00£57.07The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the second volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus-a text that... -
The Cambridge Companion to Galen by R. J. Hankinson
RRP: £34.99£26.83Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis,... -
Forms and Structure in Platoas Metaphysics by Professor of Philosophy Anna Marmodoro
RRP: £56.00£50.59This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. The book introduces a fresh perspective on... -
The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter by Myles Burnyeat 9780198733652
£72.17The Seventh Platonic Letter describes Plato's attempts to turn the ruler of Sicily, Dionysius II, into a philosopher ruler along the lines of the Republic. It explains why Plato turned from politics to philosophy in his youth and how he then tried to... -
Avicenna's Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology by Riccardo Strobino
RRP: £80.00£61.21Avicenna is the most influential figure in the intellectual history of the Islamic world. This book is the first comprehensive study of his theory of science, which profoundly shaped his philosophical method and indirectly influenced philosophers and... -
Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £36.00£30.99Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the collected works, the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient... -
Cosmos in the Ancient World by Lecturer in Classics Phillip Sidney Horky
£30.33How did the ancient Greeks and Romans conceptualise order? This book answers that question by analysing the formative concept of kosmos ('order', 'arrangement', 'ornament') in ancient literature, philosophy, science, art, and religion. This concept... -
Plato for Beginners by Robert Cavalier 9781934389089
RRP: £12.99£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389089Author Robert CavalierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Plato and the Question of Beauty by Drew A. Hyland
RRP: £18.99£17.34Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland's... -
Aristotle's De Motu Animalium by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £45.00£34.67Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal activity, along with commentary and interpretive... -
A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought by Michael Frede 9780520272668
RRP: £25.00£19.18Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the... -
Hardship and Happiness by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £80.00£76.61Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new... -
Plato's Academy: Its Workings and its History by Paul Kalligas
RRP: £36.99£30.73The Academy was a philosophical school established by Plato that safeguarded the continuity and the evolution of Platonism over a period of about 300 years. Its contribution to the development of Hellenistic philosophical and scientific thinking was... -
The Plato Cult: and Other Philosophical Follies by David Stove
RRP: £36.95£32.51This is a book of philosophy, written by a philosopher and intended for anyone who knows enough philosophy to have been seriously injured, antagonised, mystified or intoxicated by it. Stove is passionately polemical, a philosophical counterpart to Tom... -
Two Comic Dialogues: Ion and Hippias Major: Ion AND Hippias Major by Plato 9780915145775
RRP: £10.99£8.76Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on poetry and beauty.About the AuthorPaul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.Book InformationISBN 9780915145775Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Aristotle's Chemistry: On Coming to Be and Passing Away Meteorology 1.1–3, 4.1–12 by Aristotle 9781647920890
RRP: £24.99£19.86This new translation of On Coming to Be and Passing Away and Meteorology 1 and 4 fits seamlessly with the other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotle Series, enabling Anglophone readers to study these works in a way previously not possible. The... -
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: Books Alpha to Delta by Edward Halper
RRP: £62.00£51.23Edward Halper's three volume One and Many in Aristotle's 'Metaphysics' contends that Aristotle argues for his central metaphysical doctrines by showing that they alone resolve various versions of what is known as "the problem of the one and the many."... -
Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity by Mary Louise Gill
RRP: £55.00£42.14This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary... -
Parmenides and the Way of Truth by Richard G Geldard
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976684343Author Richard G GeldardFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing... -
Plato's Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love by David K O'Connor
RRP: £23.00£19.63Plato's Bedroom is a book for people who want to be better at falling in love and being in love, with all the ecstasies and dangers erotic life can bring. It is also an inviting book for readers who are intellectually playful and up for a challenge,... -
Philosophy and the Passions: Toward a History of Human Nature by Michel Meyer
RRP: £39.95£34.83The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a force of excess and lawlessness in humanity that produces troubling, confusing paradoxes.Michel Meyer...