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Plato's "Laws"
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Christopher Bobonich |
"Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade, and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dial… |
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The Cambridge companion to Socrates
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Donald R. Morrison |
"The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence com… |
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Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition
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Jeffrey Fish |
"Epicureanism after the generation of its founders has been characterised as dogmatic, uncreative and static. But this volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demon… |
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Aristotle on Time
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Tony Roark |
"Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book … |
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Radical platonism in Byzantium
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Niketas Siniossoglou |
"Byzantium has recently attracted much attention, but principally among cultural, social and economic historians. This book shifts the focus to intellectual history, exploring the thoughts of visiona… |
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Nature and divinity in Plato's Timaeus
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Sarah Broadie |
"Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major el… |
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The philosophy of Antiochus
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D. N. Sedley |
"Antiochus of Ascalon was one of the seminal philosophers of the first century BC, an era of radical philosophical change. Some called him a virtual Stoic, but in reality his programme was an updated… |
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Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics
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Jon Miller |
"Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics and moral psychology. This collec… |
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Plato's account of falsehood
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Crivelli, Paolo Dr |
"Some philosophers argue that false speech and false belief are impossible. In the Sophist, Plato addresses this 'falsehood paradox', which purports to prove that one can neither say nor believe fals… |
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Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility
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Javier Echeñique |
"Aristotle's Ethics develops a complex theory of the qualities which make for a good human being and for several decades there has been intense discussion about whether Aristotle's theory of voluntar… |
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Pleasure in ancient Greek philosophy
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David Wolfsdorf |
"The Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy that remain of philosophica… |
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How to Be a Stoic
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Massimo Pigliucci |
An engaging guide to how Stoicism--the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius--can provide lessons for living in the modern world. Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or si… |
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Socrates' children
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Peter Kreeft |
"How is this history of philosophy different from all others? 1. It's neighter very long (like Copleston's twelve-volumet tome, which is a clear and hepful reference work but pretty dull reading) nor… |
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Plato and Nietzsche
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Mark Anderson |
"It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche i… |
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