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Philosophical Inquiries by Nicholas Rescher 9780822960751
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $74.35In Philosophical Inquiries, Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy and reminds us that the purpose of philosophy is to “question the questions.”... -
Coming to Terms with Timelessness: Daoist Time in Comparative Perspective by Professor Livia Kohn 9781931483506
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Time, and in particular timelessness, plays a key role in Daoism, both in its more speculative and practical dimensions. This book explores this in comparison with other philosophies and religions... -
The Quest For Meaning: Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak 9780823222780
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $51.32One of our most distinguished thinkers, Adriaan Peperzak has masterfully explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion, and the social and historical contexts of human experience. ... -
Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries by Amber D. Carpenter 9780198880844
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.58Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave brings philosophers from two of the world's great philosophical traditions--Platonic and Indian Buddhist--into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics,... -
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 7-8 by Barrie Fleet 9781472557346
Booksplease Price: $78.74In Categories chapters 7 and 8 Aristotle considers his third and fourth categories - those of Relative and Quality. Critics of Aristotle had suggested for each of the non-substance categories that... -
Monopsychism Mysticism Metaconsciousness: Problems of the Soul in the Neoaristotelian and Neoplatonic Tradition by Fr. Merlan 9789401031813
Booksplease Price: $90.25Part of the material contained in the present book was presented in the form of a lecture course given by me at the University of Oxford in 1962 as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer. Scripps College and... -
Long Platonism: The Routes of Plato’s Reception to the Italian Renaissance Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides 9783111430980
RRP: $266.18Booksplease Price: $170.86The impact of Platonism in shaping the Abrahamic traditions is yet to be fully explored. The papers in this volume examine the influence of Plato and his commentators in the conception and... -
A Taste for the Secret by Jacques Derrida 9780745623344
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.91In this series of dialogues, Derrida discusses and elaborates on some of the central themes of his work, such as the problems of genesis, justice, authorship and death. Combining autobiographical... -
The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy by David Machek 9781009257879
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53The account of the best life for humans - i.e. a happy or flourishing life - and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not... -
Definition in Greek Philosophy by David Charles 9780198704553
Booksplease Price: $117.00Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions. In Definition in Greek Philosophy his views on definition are examined, together with those of his... -
Secularism: The Hidden Origins of Disbelief by Mike King 9780227172452
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $59.30Spirituality is a difficult subject in the modern world. Everywhere, from popular media to the university, from the bookshelf to the dinner table, religions are derided or marginalised and public... -
'Simplicius': On Aristotle On the Soul 3.1-5 by H. J. Blumenthal 9781472558527
Booksplease Price: $78.74In On the Soul 3.1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five sense to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the of which was still a matter of... -
Discernment in the Desert Fathers: Diakrisis in the Life and Thought by Antony Rich 9781842274316
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $58.31Discernment in the Desert Fathers is a study of discernment (Diakrisis) in the life and thought of the fourth- and fifth-century Egyptian Desert Fathers. Rich argues that their understanding of... -
Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis by Sarah Catherine Byers 9781107017948
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $176.61This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate... -
Harmony and Contrast: Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period by Anna Corrias 9780197267295
Booksplease Price: $131.24Plato and Aristotle were very much alive between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The essays in this volume investigate the interaction, both in terms of harmony and contrast, between the... -
Aristotle and Other Platonists by Lloyd P. Gerson 9780801441646
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $83.66"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... -
Mystical Languages of Unsaying by Michael A. Sells
Booksplease Price: $55.67This text examines a mode of mystical discourse, "apophasis", which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as "negative theology," apophatic discourse embraces the impossibility of... -
The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy by George E. Karamanolis 9781107526631
Booksplease Price: $62.63Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their shared use of aporia - translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons - as a core tool in... -
Aristotle and Other Platonists by Lloyd P. Gerson
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $35.70"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... -
Our Divine Double by Charles M. Stang 9780674287198
RRP: $95.45Booksplease Price: $72.89What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the... -
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Techne by Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Booksplease Price: $62.63This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or techne and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out... -
From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance: Resurrecting the Mind by Howard Robinson
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $47.97This book presents a strong case for substance dualism and offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, showing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain the 'hard problem' of... -
Psychology by Stephen Everson 9780521353380
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $185.84This second Companion deals with the ancient theories of the psyche. The essays range over more than eight hundred years of psychological enquiry and provide critical analyses not only of the ancient... -
Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire: From Augustus to Justinian by Albrecht Dihle
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $98.85Professor Dihle sees the Greek and Latin literature between the 1st century B.C. and the 6th century A.D. as an organic progression. He builds on Schlegel's observation that art, customs and... -
Ancient Philosophical Poetics by Malcolm Heath
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $39.80What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study... -
Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 2: Plato and the Platonists by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $62.50G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the... -
The Principles of Epistemology in Islamic Philosophy: Knowledge by Presence by Mehdi Ha'iri Yazdi 9780791409480
Booksplease Price: $50.84This book aims to present to western philosophers the most important theme in Islamic epistemology: knowledge by presence, the knowledge that results from immediate and intuitive awarenes, advocated... -
Psychology by Stephen Everson 9780521358613
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $77.32This second Companion deals with the ancient theories of the psyche. The essays range over more than eight hundred years of psychological enquiry and provide critical analyses not only of the ancient... -
Computer Ethics: A Global Perspective by Giannis Stamatellos 9780763740849
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $123.94The rapid advancement of information technology in modern societies affects the way we live, communicate, work, and entertain. Computers and computer networks formulate an information age in which... -
The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy David Machek 9781009257862
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $47.07The account of the best life for humans - i.e. a happy or flourishing life - and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not... -
Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness by Alison Scott-Baumann 9781780936369
Booksplease Price: $67.22Ricoeur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive writings on this... -
Cosmos in the Ancient World by Lecturer in Classics Phillip Sidney Horky
Booksplease Price: $60.92How 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,... -
Plato and the Divided Self by Rachel Barney 9780521899666
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $185.84Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It... -
Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity by Dominic J. O'Meara 9780199285532
Booksplease Price: $155.63Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension... -
Ancient Philosophy: Textual Paths and Historical Explorations Lorenzo Perilli 9781138668812
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $78.96'We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece', the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny... -
Time-Fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence by Ned Lukacher 9780822322733
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "discover" the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of... -
Philosophy of Beauty by Francis J. Kovach 9780806113630
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12There has long been a need for a work on the philosophy of beauty treating fundamental problems against the background of the history of aesthetics - ancient and medieval as well as modern and... -
Plato and the Divided Self by Rachel Barney 9781107654273
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $88.55Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It... -
The Transcendent Beloved: Platonic Eros and Its Graeco-Arabic Paths to Kabbalah Tanja Werthmann 9780197842775
RRP: $177.45Booksplease Price: $162.18Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in erotic terms. Plato envisions eros as creating and sustaining the permeability... -
Exploring Personhood: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Nature by Joseph Torchia 9780742548381
Booksplease Price: $88.34Exploring Personhood examines the metaphysical underpinnings of theories of human nature, personhood, and the self. The history of western philosophy provides the framework for broaching critical...