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Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory by John M. Cooper
RRP: £52.00£41.03This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic... -
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy by A. A. Long 9780521446679
RRP: £44.99£29.79The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus,... -
Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation by Joseph Bobik 9780268006174
£21.67In Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation, Joseph Bobik interprets the doctrines put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On Being and Essence. He foregrounds the meaning of the important distinction between first and... -
Plato's Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws by Andre Laks
£23.29An argument for why Plato's Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, Andre Laks argues that the Laws, Plato's last and longest dialogue, is also his most important political work, surpassing the Republic in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates by Peter E. Pormann
RRP: £28.99£24.82Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his... -
Fragments by Heraclitus 9781548591342
RRP: £5.99£5.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548591342Author HeraclitusFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Aristotle on Women: Physiology, Psychology, and Politics by Sophia M. Connell
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with his practical philosophy. Scholars have often debated how these two fields are related. The current study shows that according to... -
Charmides by Christopher Moore 9781624667787
£11.83"Moore and Raymond's Charmides is very impressive. The translation is excellent, and the Introduction and notes guide the reader into thorny problems in a way that renders them understandable: e.g., how to translate sophrosune, why we should care about... -
The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 4 by Plato 9780300077292
RRP: £25.00£23.94Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the... -
Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £34.95£22.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044875Author Susan Buck-MorssFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens by John David Lewis 9780715637289
£31.70In "Solon the Thinker" John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal... -
Plato Prehistorian: Myth, Religion, Archeology by Mary Settegast 9781584208976
RRP: £45.00£28.69In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilisations that flourished more than 9,000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right. In Plato,... -
Works: v. 4 by Dio Chrysostom
£23.39The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to ... -
The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised by Richard Kraut 9780198868729
RRP: £25.49£22.95The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the... -
The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics by Allan Silverman
£41.03The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the... -
Form without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780198717904
£103.17Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he... -
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity by Algis U'Zdavinys 9781621386346
£30.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386346Author Algis U'ZdavinysFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Plato: Meno by Plato
£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585109937Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co -
Works: v. 1 by Dio Chrysostom
£23.39The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to... -
A Fortunate Storm: The Improbable Story of Stoicism: How it Came About and What it Says by Chuck Chakrapani 9780920219102
RRP: £7.95£6.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920219102Author Chuck ChakrapaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Stoic GymPublisher Stoic GymWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm -
A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Jorge J. E. Gracia 9780631216735
RRP: £40.95£36.89This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. Provides a comprehensive "who's who" guide to medieval philosophers.Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by... -
Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy by Brad Inwood
RRP: £30.99£25.45Philosophers and doctors from the period immediately after Aristotle down to the second century CE were particularly focussed on the close relationships of soul and body; such relationships are particularly intimate when the soul is understood to be a... -
The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue by Nancy Sherman 9780198239178
RRP: £43.99£41.68There is a resurgence of interest in Aristotle's ethical theory, and this book contributes to the debate by asserting that, in Aristotle's view, excellence of character is constituted both by the sentiments and by practical reason. Throughout the... -
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans by Charles H. Kahn 9780872205765
£46.85A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.About the AuthorCharles Kahn is Professor of Philosophy, University of... -
Memorabilia by Xenophon
£19.19An essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the compelling tribute of an affectionate student to his teacher, providing a rare firsthand account of Socrates' life and philosophy. The Memorabilia is invaluable both as a work of... -
Reading Plotinus: A Practical Introduction to Neoplatonism by Kevin Corrigan 9781557532343
RRP: £28.95£19.29This title provides a practical reading guide to the thought of Plotinus, the great philosopher who was born in Alexandria in the third century AD, lived in Rome and wrote in Greek. Deeply immersed in earlier Greek philosophy, especially Plato and... -
Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy by Marina Berzins McCoy 9780199672783
£118.50This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. In this book, McCoy... -
Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy by David Wolfsdorf
RRP: £26.99£22.80The Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy that remain of philosophical interest today. In this volume Professor Wolfsdorf... -
Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories by Ana Laura Edelhoff
RRP: £17.00£14.72The main objective of this Element is to reconstruct Aristotle's view on the nature of ontological priority in the Categories. Over the last three decades, investigations into ontological dependence and priority have become a major concern in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus by Lloyd P. Gerson
RRP: £34.99£29.76Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One... -
Analogical Investigations: Historical and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Reasoning by G. E. R. Lloyd 9781107518377
RRP: £23.99£20.37Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results... -
Aristotle: Selections by Aristotle 9780915145683
£58.08Selections seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this... -
Historia Animalium: Bk. 1-3 by Aristotle
£23.39Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes "differences"-in parts, activities, modes of life, and character-across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes, which are the concern of his other zoological works. Over... -
The Soul of the Greeks: An Inquiry by Michael Davis
RRP: £24.00£23.03The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and... -
Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato by Francis M. Cornford 9780872203877
£38.58A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.Reviews. . . one of the masterpieces of classical scholarship. . . . Contemporary work on the Timaeus will inevitably take Plato's Cosmology as its starting point. --Charles H. Kahn, University of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Plato by Gail Fine 9780199769193
RRP: £57.00£52.01Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one commissioned articles in The Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics and... -
Science before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy by Daniel Graham 9780199959785
RRP: £67.00£58.16In Science before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato... -
Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 by Dominik Perler 9780199383481
£59.66What are emotions? How do they arise? How do they relate to other mental and bodily states? And what is their specific structure? The book discusses these questions, focusing on medieval and early modern theories. It looks at a great number of authors,... -
Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity by Antonio Donato 9781474228572
£38.14In the last fifty years the field of Late Antiquity has advanced significantly. Today we have a picture of this period that is more precise and accurate than before. However, the study of one of the most significant texts of this age, Boethius'... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science by Liba Taub 9781107465763
RRP: £24.99£21.18This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural...