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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Presocratics
Book SynopsisThe origins both of modern science and modern philosophy lie in Greek civilization of the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. It was then that a series of thinkers, usually known as "the Presocratic philosophers", created ways of looking at the world that were fundamentally new. In the middle of social and political changes, and exposed to intellectual influences from the Near East as well as to traditional Greek ideas, the first Presocratics, Thales and Anaximander of Miletus, had a vision of a universe governed by absolute and impartial law. In terms of this idea they and their successors tried to account for the observed structure of the physical world. An increasing awareness of the philosophical problems invloved in this attempt led to the striking and enigmatic pronouncements of Heraclitus, and to the struggle to escape from self-contradiction in which Parmenides created the first philosophical arguments and the beginnings of conceptual analysis. By 450 B.C. the thought of these men was having repercussions in wider areas of Greek culture, and was an important factor in the great outburst of intellectual energy in the "sophistic age" - the last half of the 5th century. This book presents a picture of these developments, using, wherever possible, translations of the surviving fragments of the Presocratics as a foundation for the discussion.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC History of Cynicism: From Diogenes to the Sixth Century A.D.
Book SynopsisA general introduction to the Hellenistic philosophy of Cynicism. In the BRISTOL CLASSICAL PAPERBACK series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy
Book SynopsisIt is a commonplace to say that in antiquity philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but precisely what such claims amount to has remained unclear. If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? John Sellars explores this question via a detailed account of ancient Stoic ideas about the nature and function of philosophy. He considers the Socratic background to Stoic thinking about philosophy and Sceptical objections raised by Sextus Empiricus, and offers readings of late Stoic texts by Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Sellars argues that the conception of philosophy as an 'art of living', inaugurated by Socrates and developed by the Stoics, has persisted since antiquity and remains a living alternative to modern attempts to assimilate philosophy to the natural sciences. It also enables us to rethink the relationship between an individual's philosophy and their biography. The book appears here in paperback for the first time with a new preface by the author.Trade Review'Sheds new light on the way philosophy was conceived ... rekindles the crucial question of how we should understand and practise philosophy' - Rhizai. 'Lucid and well-documented ... a useful contribution to the expanding body of new work on Hellenistic-Roman - especially Stoic - practical ethics' - Phronesis.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Topic 2 The Structure PART I: 1 Philosophy and Biography 2 The Socratic Origins of the Art of Living 3 The Stoic Conception of the Art of Living 4 Sceptical Objections PART II: 5 Philosophical Exercises 6 Exercises in the Handbook of Epictetus 7 Exercises in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Conclusion Additional Notes Glossary of Greek Words and Phrases Guide to Ancient Philosophers and Authors Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
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Aziloth Books The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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White Crow Productions Meditations
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The Matheson Trust Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
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Aziloth Books De Rerum Natura - On the Nature of Things
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Aurea Vidya Mandukyakarika: The Metaphysical Path of Vedanta
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Innovative Eggz LLC Meditations
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SD Publishing LLC Chakras & The Third Eye: 2 Books in 1 - How to Balance Your Chakras and Awaken Your Third Eye With Guided Meditation, Kundalini, and Hypnosis
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Antelope Hill Publishing The Agony of Polemos
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Warbler Classics Meditations (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
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Dalcassian Publishing Company On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
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PublishDrive Stoic Principles Reimagined for Modern Challenges
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Adultbrain Publishing The Secret Teachings of All Ages
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Hachette Livre - BNF Adversus Mathematicos, Hoc Est, Adversus EOS Qui
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Hachette Livre - BNF de la Vie Heureuse (Éd.1883)
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Hachette Livre - BNF Ad Lucilium (N Éd) (Éd.1886)
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BoD - Books on Demand Psychologie de lépicurisme
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De Gruyter Analytica Priora. Buch I
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De Gruyter Buch 21-23
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De Gruyter Buch 1-3
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De Gruyter Über das Schicksal / De fato
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De Gruyter Apokolokyntosis
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De Gruyter L. Annaei Senecae Opera Quae Supersunt: Volumen I
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De Gruyter L. Annaei Senecae Opera Quae Supersunt: Volumen
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De Gruyter L. Annaei Senecae Opera Quae Supersunt: Volumen
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de Gruyter Aristoteles Und Seine Weltanschauung
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De Gruyter Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and
Book SynopsisCicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, who eulogized his outstanding oratorical and political virtues but, not rarely, questioned the role he had in Roman politics and society. An international group of scholars elaborates on the figure of Cicero, shedding fresh light on his reception in late antiquity, Humanism and Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern centuries. Historians, literary scholars and philosophers, as well as graduate students, will certainly profit from this volume, which contributes enormously to our understanding of the influence of Cicero on Western culture over the times.
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De Gruyter Cicero: De officiis
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De Gruyter Der Umschlag von allem in nichts
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De Gruyter Afterlives of the Garden: Receptions of Epicurean
Book SynopsisThe collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as well as poetic texts by both minor and major writers in the Latin literary canon, including the anonymous poems, Ciris and Aetna, and an elegy from the Tibullan corpus by the female poet, Sulpicia. Major figures include the Augustan poets, Vergil and Horace, and the late antique Christian theologian, Augustine. The method of analysis employed in the essays is uniformly interdisciplinary and reveals the depth of the engagement of each ancient author with major preoccupations of Epicurean thought, such as the balanced pursuit of erotic pleasure in the context of human flourishing and the role of the gods in relation to human existence. The ensemble of nuanced interpretations testifies to the immense vitality of the Epicurean philosophical tradition throughout Greco-Roman antiquity and thereby provides a welcome and substantial contribution to the burgeoning field of reception studies.
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De Gruyter Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism
Book SynopsisThis volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, humans) in Aristotle and Aristotelianism. Aristotle’s innovative analysis of the nutritive faculty has laid the intellectual foundation for the increasing appreciation of nutrition as a prerequisite for the maintenance of life and health that can be observed in the history of Greek thought. According to Aristotle, apart from nutrition, the nutritive part of the soul is also responsible for or interacts with many other bodily functions or mechanisms, such as digestion, growth, reproduction, sleep, and the innate heat. After Aristotle, these concepts were used and further developed by a great number of Peripatetic philosophers, commentators on Aristotle and Arabic thinkers until early modern times. This volume is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth survey of the development of this rather philosophical concept from Aristotle to early modern thinkers. It is of key interest to scholars working on classical, medieval and early modern psycho-physiological accounts of living things, historians and philosophers of science, biologists with interests in the history of science, and, generally, students of the history of philosophy and science.
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De Gruyter Schleiermacher’s Plato
Book Synopsis Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Platons Werke (1804–28) changed how we understand Plato. His translation of Plato’s dialogues remained the authoritative one in the German-speaking world for two hundred years, but it was his interpretation of Plato and the Platonic corpus, set forth in his Introductions to the dialogues, that proved so revolutionary for classicists and philosophers worldwide. Schleiermacher created a Platonic question for the modern world. Yet, in Schleiermacher studies, surprisingly little is known about Schleiermacher’s deep engagement with Plato. Schleiermacher’s Plato is the first book-length study of the topic. It addresses two basic questions: How did Schleiermacher understand Plato? In what ways was Schleiermacher’s own thought influenced by Plato? Lamm argues that Schleiermacher’s thought was profoundly influenced by Plato, or rather by his rather distinctive understanding of Plato. This is true not only of Schleiermacher’s philosophy (Hermeneutics, Dialectics) but also of his thinking about religion and Christian faith during the first decade of the nineteenth century (Christmas Dialogue, Speeches on Religion). Schleiermacher’s Plato should be of interest to classicists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion.
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De Gruyter Porphyry, ›On Principles and Matter‹: A Syriac Version of a Lost Greek Text with an English Translation, Introduction, and Glossaries
Book SynopsisThe Syriac treatise published in the present volume is in many respects a unique text. Though it has been preserved anonymously, there remains little doubt that it belongs to Porphyry of Tyre. Accordingly, it enlarges our knowledge of the views of the most famous disciple of Plotinus. The text is an important witness to Platonist discussions on First Principles and on Plato’s concept of Prime Matter in the Timaeus. It contains extensive quotations from Atticus, Severus, and Boethus. This text thus provides us with new textual witnesses to these philosophers, whose legacy remains very poorly attested and little known. Additionally, the treatise is a rare example of a Platonist work preserved in the Syriac language. The Syriac reception of Plato and Platonic teachings has left rather sparse textual traces, and the question of what precisely Syriac Christians knew about Plato and his philosophy remains a debated issue. The treatise provides evidence for the close acquaintance of Syriac scholars with Platonic cosmology and with philosophical commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus.
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de Gruyter Ad Se Ipsum Libri XII Bibliotheca Scriptorum
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de Gruyter M Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia
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de Gruyter Theonis Smyrnaei Philosophi Platonici Expositio Rerum Mathematicarum AD Legendum Platonem Utilium
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de Gruyter Opuscula Logica Physica Allegorica Alia 1955
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Books on Demand Platon in 60 Minuten
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