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Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra: A Guide by Matthew R. Dasti 9780197625934
RRP: £19.99£18.21Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra is one of classical India's most important philosophical works. This Guide offers both a map and interpretation of this challenging canonical text, suitable for any student or novice reader. Treating them as... -
Black Ships and Sea Raiders: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus' Second Cretan Lie by Jeffrey P. Emanuel 9781498572231
RRP: £39.00£34.37The end of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean was a time of social, political, and economic upheaval - conditions reflected, in many ways, in the world of Homer's Odyssey. Jeffrey P. Emanuel examines the Odyssey's Second Cretan Lie (xiv 191 -... -
Aristotle on Thought and Feeling by Paula Gottlieb
RRP: £90.00£75.12Aristotle's discussion of the motivation of the good person is both complicated and cryptic. Depending on which passages are emphasized, he may seem to be presenting a Kantian style view according to which the good person is and ought to be motivated... -
The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics by Barbara Sattler
RRP: £125.00£90.28This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain... -
Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of "Metaphysics" VII-IX by Charlotte Witt
RRP: £34.00£30.87Substance and Essence in Aristotle is a close study of Aristotle's most profound-and perplexing-treatise: Books VII-IX of the Metaphysics. These central books, which focus on the nature of substance, have gained a deserved reputation for their... -
Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond by Julia Annas 9780198755746
RRP: £72.00£64.42Julia 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... -
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto by Editor 9780198147619
£33.45Marcus Aurelius governed Rome and its empire from 161 to 180 AD. The "Meditations" were written in his old age, composed while on campaign, and provide an insight into the emperor's mind. They reveal, albeit subtly, the personality of the writer:... -
Generation of Animals by Aristotle
£23.39Efficient causes of life.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 ... -
Aristotle: Topics Book VI by Dr Annamaria Schiaparelli 9780199609765
RRP: £25.00£22.54This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes providing insight into the history of the transmission of the text with its variants. In the Topics,... -
Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame by Christina H. Tarnopolsky 9780691163420
£19.59In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of... -
Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader by Julia Annas 9780195126952
£71.45This topically organized collection is intended as an introduction to the many varied voices of ancient philosophy that involves the reader directly in the issues. Rather than proceeding chronologically through different systems, the student engages with... -
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology by Charles H. Kahn 9780872202559
£17.21Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander's thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists.About the AuthorCharles H. Kahn is Professor of... -
Cicero and the People’s Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Lex Paulson 9781316514115
RRP: £75.00£67.74This book tells an overlooked story in the history of ideas, a drama of cut-throat politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will in Western thought, from criminal will to moral... -
The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus by Seth Benardete
RRP: £30.00£29.25"The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy", one of the most groundbreaking works of twentieth-century Platonic studies, is now back in print for a new generation of students and scholars to discover. In this volume, distinguished classicist Seth Benardete... -
Rhetoric by Aristotle 9780486437934
RRP: £6.49£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437934Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Laches by Rosamond Kent Sprague 9780872201347
£9.00Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. This edition includes notes by Sprague and an updated bibliography.About the AuthorRosamond Kent Sprague is... -
Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Francis Hutcheson
£16.80This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Frances Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the... -
Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination by J. P. F. Wynne 9781107683563
RRP: £24.99£22.37During the months before and after he saw Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cicero wrote two philosophical dialogues about religion and theology: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination. This book brings to life his portraits of... -
The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word by Gregory Crane 9780847681297
RRP: £110.00£89.27Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Hereodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the... -
Energy Dreams: Of Actuality by Michael Marder
£19.59The question of energy is among the most vital for the future of humanity and the flourishing of life on this planet. Yet, only very rarely (if at all) do we ask what energy is, what it means, what ends it serves, and how it is related to actuality,... -
Practices of Reason: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by C. D. C. Reeve 9780198235651
£41.68Practices of Reason is an exploration of the epistemological, metaphysical, and psychological foundations of the Nicomachean Ethics. In a striking reversal of current orthodoxy, Professor Reeve argues that scientific-knowledge (episteme) is possible... -
On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze
£22.89Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and... -
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens by Michael A. Rinella 9780739146873
RRP: £46.00£40.35Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750-146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period... -
Plato's Forms: Varieties of Interpretation by William A. Welton 9780739105146
£101.96The "theory of forms" usually attributed to Plato is one of the most famous of philosophical theories, yet it has engendered such controversy in the literature on Plato that scholars even debate whether or not such a theory exists in his texts. Plato's... -
From Stoicism to Platonism: The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE-100 CE by Troels Engberg-Pedersen
RRP: £36.99£30.73From Stoicism to Platonism describes the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE, when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy, to around 100 CE, when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand - with huge consequences... -
Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy by Simon Swain 9780199255214
£54.30Dio Chrysostom (c. AD 45-115) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and politicians from the flourishing world of the Greeks under Rome. His many surviving essays and speeches offer historians, philosophers, and students of literature an... -
An Essay on the Unity of Stoic Philosophy by Johnny Christensen 9788763538985
£19.52Ancient Stoics repeatedly stressed the monolithic unity of their philosophy. In this ground breaking "essay" Johnny Christensen takes their claim at face value: "It is a presupposition of the present essay that Stoic philosophy is a... -
History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs 9781604449464
RRP: £24.95£22.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604449464Author Georg LukacsFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780801485329
RRP: £12.99£9.48With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the... -
Aristotle's Metaphysics by Aristotle 9781888009033
RRP: £34.95£23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888009033Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Green Lion PressPublisher Green Lion PressWeight(grams) 658g -
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper 9780691138602
£43.31This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient... -
One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today by Richard D. Mohr 9781930972322
£98.03The much-anticipated anthology on Plato's Timaeus-Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos-examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western... -
Studies in Presocratic Philosophy Volume 1: The Beginnings of Philosophy by David Furley 9781138201552
RRP: £37.99£33.78Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover: The nature of Presocratic thought The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics The earliest philosophers up... -
Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Francis Hutcheson 9780865975118
RRP: £10.95£8.98This 1742 translation is a collaborative work by Frances Hutcheson and a colleague at Glasgow University, the classicist James Moor. Although Hutcheson was secretive about the extent of his work on the book, he was clearly the leading spirit of the... -
The Ethics of the Family in Seneca by Liz Gloyn 9781107145474
RRP: £92.99£83.67This book is the first extensive study of the role of the family in the work of Seneca. It offers a new way of reading philosophy that combines philosophical analysis with social, cultural and historical factors to bring out the ways in which Stoicism... -
Two Studies in the Greek Atomists by David Furley
£27.74The two studies, "Indivisible Magnitudes," and "Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action," explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of the ancient Greek and Latin texts which describe them, and second by... -
Aristotle's On the Soul: A Critical Guide by Caleb Cohoe
RRP: £75.00£67.74Aristotle's On the Soul aims to uncover the principle of life, what Aristotle calls psuche (soul). For Aristotle, soul is the form which gives life to a body and causes all its living activities, from breathing to thinking. Aristotle develops a general... -
Introduction to Presocratics: A Thematic Approach to Early Greek Philosophy with Key Readings by Giannis Stamatellos
RRP: £30.95£27.45INTRODUCTION TO PRESOCRATICS "The general public and scholars alike will find Introduction to Presocratics stimulating, engaging and exceptionally useful. Stamatellos' intriguing and illuminating theme-based approach to this subject and his inclusion of... -
The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader by Daniel McKaughan 9781474232722
£39.27The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo,... -
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's 'Republic': Volume 2 by Dirk Baltzly
£80.43The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of...