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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship

A superb compilation that explores the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship. It gives an overview...

Early Greek Ethics

Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Pres...

Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy - Essays in Honor of David Keyt

This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. Th...

Women's Perspectives on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

This book promotes the research of present-day women working in ancient and medieval philosophy, with more than 60 women having contribut...

Philosophy of the Ancient Maya - Lords of Time

This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particul...

Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche - The Bow with the Greatest Tension

In this book, Matthew P. Meyer analyzes the archer and the bow as a metaphor for the human condition in Lacan, Nietzsche, and Greek liter...

Pythagoras redivivus - Studies on the Texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

This original collection of essays by some of the best world specialists of ancient Greek philosophy focuses on the philosophical texts w...

Plato's Charmides

A close text commentary showing the interplay of the philosophical issues, the characters and the dialectic across the dialogue.

Space in Hellenistic Philosophy - Critical Studies in Ancient Physics

Historically speaking, the majority of efforts in the study of ancient Greek physics have traditionally been devoted either to the analys...

Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike. Corporeità nella filosofia tardoantica

In diesem Sammelband wird die Idee des Körpers und der Körperlichkeit in der Philosophie der Spätantike untersucht. Dazu werden Fragen de...

Couch City - Socrates against Simonides

Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Be...

Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life

Daniel Russell develops a fresh and original view of pleasure and its pivotal role in Plato's treatment of value, happiness, and human ps...

Damaskios - Philosophie, Religion und Politik zwischen Ost und West

Damaskios (ca. 458-538) ist der letzte systematische Philosoph der Antike. Sein Lebensweg führte ihn von Damaskus nach Alexandrien, wo er...

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought

A guide to the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans.

The Cambridge Companion to Galen

The most influential doctor of later antiquity, Galen wrote extensively on logic and the philosophy of science.

Aristotle's Theory of Conduct

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

Conversations in the House of Life - A New Translation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth

Conversations in the House of Life offers a new translation of a text first published as The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth (2005). The c...

Ancient Greek Philosophers

"Philosophy begins in wonder." —Plato

Platon: Phaidon

Platons "Phaidon" stellt eindringlich dar, wie Sokrates angesichts des Todes seine philosophische Lebensführung und seine Überzeugung von...

A Guide to the Good Life - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the ancient Roman Stoics, Irvine offers a road map for anyone seeking to...

How to Care about Animals - An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small

An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals-and our vital relationships with them How to ...

How to Die - An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "stu...

How to Say No - An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism

"An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinki...

How to Be Free - An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywh...

How to Have a Life - An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely

"A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of a precious asset: our timeWho d...

Meditations

A new translation of the philosophical journey that has inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton in a beautiful hardcover ...

Letters from a Stoic - Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-cat...

How to Stop a Conspiracy - An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic

"In 63 BC the corrupt aristocrat Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline in English) aimed to topple the Roman Republic. Catiline attracted a w...

The Ten Golden Rules: Ancient Wisdom from the Greek Philosophers on Living the Good Life

Folks have always tried to get to the essence of how to live the good life. Ben Franklin created Poor Richar's Almanac that provided maxi...

The Nicomachean Ethics

A new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time A Penguin Classic Aristotle's classic treatise is based on...

Discourses and Selected Writings

A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Ep...

Plato in 60 Minutes - Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes

Platös great discovery was radically new but has echoed down the ages. His ¿theory of Ideas¿ has shaped the whole of Western culture and ...

Aristotle on What Emotions Are

Providing the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks emotions are and pointing to some philosophical merits of his acco...

Aristotelian Metaphysics - Essays in Honour of David Charles

Sixteen prominent scholars offer fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's metaphysical thinking: his accounts of definition a...

The Pontifical Law - Religion and Religious Power in Ancient Rome

Of the four major priesthoods in ancient Rome, none wielded powers as extensive as the pontificate's; holders of this office not only ove...

Fractured Goodness - Aristotle's Response to Plato's Form of the Good

A book about Aristotle's rejection of Plato's doctrine of the Form of the Good. It argues that, according to Aristotle, when we generaliz...

Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic

Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato's most read di...

Seneca's Affective Cosmos - Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond

Chiara Graf examines the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger, reading several of t...

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 2

Al-Farabi, Syllogism: An Abridgement of Aristotle's Prior Analytics

French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substa...

What God Would Have Known - How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine

In this book, J. L. Schellenberg argues that humanity has developed spiritually and morally in a way that would have been reflected in Ch...

Meditations

In Meditations, now available in a highly designed hardcover gift edition, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 AD, r...

365 Lessons from the Stoics - Transform Your Daily Life Using the Stoics' Wisdom and Understanding

The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced mult...

The Symposium

The six Enneads

Aristotle

The collected dialogues of Plato

Introducing Plato

Aristotle's Ethics

The republic