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Initiation Into the Philosophy of Plato by Asram Vidya Order Raphael 9781931406079
RRP: £16.80£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931406079Author (Āśram Vidyā Order) RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Aurea VidyaPublisher Aurea VidyaWeight(grams)... -
Sophists by Mauro Bonazzi
RRP: £16.99£14.71From Socrates and Plato onwards, the Sophists were often targeted by the authoritative philosophical tradition as being mere charlatans and poor teachers. This book, translated and significantly updated from its most recent Italian version (2nd edition,... -
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy by Susanne Bobzien 9780199247677
RRP: £68.00£50.31Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important intellectual legacies of the ancient Greek world: the Stoic theory of causal determinism. The book identifies the main problems that the Stoics... -
How to Live - A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and the Enchiridion by Epictetus 9789358565744
RRP: £4.95£4.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358565744Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! Publishing -
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... -
Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta by Michael V. Wedin 9780199253081
RRP: £72.00£58.56Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. In the early theory of the Categories... -
The Republic by Plato 9780300136371
RRP: £17.99£17.97A major new translation of one of the central works of Western Civilization R. E. Allen's highly regarded translations of the dialogues of Plato have been praised for their faithfulness and readability. Many years in the making, his translation of The... -
Cosmos in the Ancient World by Lecturer in Classics Phillip Sidney Horky
RRP: £29.99£27.40How 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... -
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... -
The Four Books of Pseudo-Democritus: Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry: Sir Robert Mond Studies in the History of Early Chemistry Matteo Martelli 9781909662285
RRP: £45.99£40.12The Four Books of pseudo-Democritus, written in the first century AD, rank among the very earliest known alchemical writings. In this volume, Matteo Martelli presents not only a fresh edition and translation of the surviving Greek fragments, but also,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates by Peter E. Pormann
RRP: £28.99£25.21Hippocrates 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... -
Feelings Transformed: Philosophical Theories of the Emotions, 1270-1670 by Dominik Perler 9780199383481
RRP: £68.00£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,... -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: £25.00£19.39In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or... -
Plato's Lysis by Terry Penner 9780521103190
RRP: £39.99£30.09The Lysis is one of Plato's most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical failure. The full philosophical and literary exploration of the dialogue illustrates how it in fact provides a... -
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 4 by Myles Burnyeat
RRP: £90.00£81.43Myles Burnyeat (1939-2019) was a major figure in the study of ancient Greek philosophy during the last decades of the twentieth century and the first of this. After teaching positions in London and Cambridge, where he became Laurence Professor, in 1996... -
Rationality in Greek Thought by Michael Frede 9780198250029
£49.77Rationality in Greek Thought, a collection of specially written essays by leading international scholars, re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. Conceptions of reason, rationality, and reasonableness have changed considerably over time,... -
Aristotle's De Anima: A Critical Commentary by Ronald M. Polansky 9780521148856
RRP: £29.99£27.80Aristotle's De Anima is the first systematic philosophical account of the soul, which serves to explain the functioning of all mortal living things. In his commentary, Ronald Polansky argues that the work is far more structured and systematic than... -
Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed by John Vella 9780826497086
RRP: £22.99£22.85"Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed" offers a clear and thorough account of the work and thought of this key thinker, providing an outline of his central ideas and the ways in which they have influenced the history of western philosophy.For... -
The Unity of Plato's Sophist: Between the Sophist and the Philosopher by Noburu Notomi 9780521037327
RRP: £36.99£33.55Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist, is deemed one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, but scholars have been shy of confronting the central problem of the dialogue. For Plato, defining the sophist is the basic philosophical problem: any... -
Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era by Stephen Gersh 9781108415286
RRP: £90.00£81.43The extensive influence of Plotinus, the third-century founder of 'Neoplatonism', on intellectual thought from the Renaissance to the modern era has never been systematically explored. This collection of new essays fills the gap in the scholarship,... -
Dyskolos: 2-volume set by Menander 9780929524207
RRP: £14.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524207Author MenanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g -
De Anima: Books II and III (with passages from Book I) by Aristotle 9780198240853
£40.25Aristotle's "De Anima" has a claim to be the first systematic treatment of issues in the philosophy of mind, and also to be one of the greatest works on the subject. This volume provides an accurate translation of Books 2 and 3, together with some... -
Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias by Thomas Kjeller Johansen 9780521067485
RRP: £39.99£33.26Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It... -
The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium by Sophia Xenophontos 9781108986595
RRP: £26.99£24.08Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity... -
Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens by John David Lewis 9780715637289
£32.55In "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... -
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 3, Book 3, Part 1, Proclus on the World's Body by Proclus 9780521845953
RRP: £78.99£67.25Proclus' Commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text of Plato, offering unparalleled insights into eight centuries of Platonic interpretation. This edition offered the first new English translation of the... -
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics by Mark Balaguer 9780195122305
£37.74Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism. He does this by establishing that both platonism and anti-platonism are defensible views. Introducing a form of platonism ("full-blooded platonism") that solves... -
Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values by Richard Sorabji 9780198708667
£26.21Richard Sorabji presents a fascinating study of Gandhi's philosophy in comparison with Christian and Stoic thought. Sorabji shows that Gandhi was a true philosopher. He not only aimed to give a consistent self-critical rationale for his views, but also... -
Being, Essence and Substance in Plato and Aristotle Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) 9780745660554
RRP: £18.99£17.13Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the outstanding French philosophers of the 20th century and his work is widely read in the English-speaking world. This unique volume comprises the lectures that Ricoeur gave on Plato and Aristotle at the University of... -
Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy by Vilius Bartninkas 9781009322614
RRP: £29.99£25.94This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed... -
The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece by Andrew Barker 9780521289955
RRP: £50.99£43.42The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers,... -
Ancient Epistemology by Lloyd P. Gerson 9780521691895
RRP: £25.99£21.99This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In... -
Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £32.00£21.90Apologies 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 -
Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud by Miriam Leonard
RRP: £26.00£24.85"What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Posed by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed, and conflicts raged... -
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus by John M. Cooper 9780691138602
RRP: £55.00£43.65This 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... -
Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific Norms by James G. Lennox
RRP: £90.00£75.52Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the nature of scientific knowledge. How then do his philosophical... -
Cities and Thrones and Powers: Towards a Plotinian Politics by Stephen R L Clark 9781621388555
RRP: £20.00£19.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388555Author Stephen R L ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Works: v. 4 by Dio Chrysostom
RRP: £24.95£23.76The 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 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... -
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 4, Book 3, Part 2, Proclus on the World Soul by Proclus 9780521845960
RRP: £127.00£107.99In the present volume Proclus describes the 'creation' of the soul that animates the entire universe. This is not a literal creation, for Proclus argues that Plato means only to convey the eternal dependence of the World Soul upon higher causes. In his...