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The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia by Epicurus 9780872202412
RRP: €15.46€13.16TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction The ancient biography of Epicurus The extant letters Ancient collections of maxims Doxographical reports The testimony of Cicero The testimony of Lucretius The polemic of PlutarchShort fragments and testimonia from known... -
Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision by Pierre Hadot
RRP: €27.37€26.33Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation--complete with a useful chronology and analytical... -
Commentary on Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics Thomas Aquinas 9781883357511
RRP: €42.84€41.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883357511Author Thomas AquinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Dumb Ox Books,USPublisher Dumb Ox Books,USWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Unshakable Freedom: Ancient Stoic Secrets Applied to Modern Life by Chuck Chakrapani 9780920219188
RRP: €21.36€17.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920219188Author Chuck ChakrapaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Stoic GymPublisher Stoic GymWeight(grams) 231g -
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans by Charles H. Kahn 9780872205758
RRP: €24.98€21.94A 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... -
Confessions, Volume II: Books 9-13 by Augustine
RRP: €29.69€27.83The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica... -
Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads by Dominic J. O'Meara 9780198751472
RRP: €58.89€44.36This is the ideal introduction to the thought of the third-century AD writer Plotinus, one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, now enjoying a major revival of interest. Dominic O'Meara has tailored the book carefully to the requirements of students:... -
The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot
RRP: €30.88€24.56Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of... -
Ancient Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: €16.65€12.08Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially... -
Politics: v. 21 by Aristotle
RRP: €29.69€27.83The natural state of mankind.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 ... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.64Three late dialogues.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson 9780198728023
RRP: €34.50€25.85Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics,... -
Aristotle's Theology: The Primary Texts by Aristotle 9781647920814
RRP: €27.36€22.30"Even those already familiar with Aristotle may be surprised to learn that discussions of theological topics can be found in so many of his works. Reeve's idea of packaging these texts sequentially along with commentary and notes is brilliant. This book... -
Theology of Arithmetic by Iamblichus 9780933999725
RRP: €16.65€12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933999725Author IamblichusFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Phanes Press,U.S.Publisher Phanes Press,U.S. -
Natural Law: A Study in Legal & Social History & Philosophy by Heinrich Albert Rommen 9780865971608
RRP: €21.36€18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971608Author Henrich RommenFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 701g -
Symposium and The Death of Socrates by Plato
RRP: €5.94€4.12With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith.In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an... -
Confessions: Volume I by Augustine
RRP: €29.69€27.83The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: €29.69€27.83A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.64The ethics of a statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a... -
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom by David Bradshaw 9780521035569
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite,... -
Socrates' Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus by Charles Ives 9781498528504
RRP: €99.96€87.64Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Critias but was presumably never written. There is demand,... -
The Greek Sophists by John Dillon
RRP: €17.84€13.03By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of rhetoric and the... -
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary by Heraclitus 9780521286459
RRP: €55.92€45.39Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of... -
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics by Jr S K Heninger 9781621380375
€27.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380375Author S K Heninger, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West by Philip C. Almond 9781009346795
RRP: €35.70€31.36Alongside Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is the most significant figure in the history of religion. Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about Siddhartha Gautama's life with an authoritative account of... -
Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations & Plato's Writings by Eva Brann 9781589880757
RRP: €28.55€18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880757Author Eva BrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 548g -
Aristotle and Other Platonists by Lloyd P. Gerson
RRP: €33.31€28.73"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it... -
A Manual for Living by Epictetus
RRP: €13.08€9.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062511119Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 62gDimensions(mm) 120mm *... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary by Sarah Broadie
RRP: €51.16€48.55Amongst the works of Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics stands virtually alone in speaking not only to classicists, historians of ideas, and technical philosophers, but to anyone trying to make sense of practical human ideals. In this major new... -
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: €17.85€11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036326Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 112mm * 9mm -
The Ecological Self by Freya Mathews
RRP: €20.22€18.11Environmental disasters, from wildfires and vanishing species to flooding and drought, have increased dramatically in recent years and debates about the environment are rarely far from the headlines. There is growing awareness that these disasters are... -
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691167701
RRP: €17.84€13.97Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second... -
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings by Peter King 9780521806558
RRP: €89.24€75.81The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; on the other hand, God's grace is required for these... -
Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: €20.22€15.46Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought... -
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter by Melissa Lane
€22.54In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of... -
Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.2 by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: €29.69€27.83Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title ... -
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald Robertson 9781250196620
RRP: €26.17€21.47"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." --Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The... -
A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics: From Plato to Winnie the Pooh by James M. Russell 9781849010016
RRP: €13.08€9.25Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects seventy-six works - from Plato, Descartes and Wittgenstein to Philip K Dick and the Moomins as well as... -
The Eccentric Core - The Thought of Seth Benardete Ronna Burger 9781587315800
RRP: €24.99€21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587315800Author Ronna BurgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 499g -
Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by James E. G. Zetzel
RRP: €24.98€21.53Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's understanding of government and remain his most...