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Taylor & Francis Plato Timaeus and Critias RLE Plato Routledge Library Editions Plato
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Greek Aesthetic Theory RLE Plato Routledge Library Editions Plato
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Taylor & Francis Animals in Greek and Roman Thought A Sourcebook Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World
This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and pharaohs in early Egypt and Mesopotamia. It then traces the role of athletics and the Olympic Games in transforming the idea of aristocracy as something acquired by birth to something that can be trained. This idea of training virtue through the techniques and practice of athletics is examined in relation to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Then Roman spectacles such as chariot racing and gladiator games are studied in light of the philosophy of Lucretius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. The concluding chapter connects the book's ancient observations with contemporary issues such as the use of athletes as role models, the relationship between money and corruption, the relative worth of participation and
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Taylor & Francis A ReAssessment of Aristotles Economic Thought
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Taylor & Francis The Origins of Ancient Greek Science
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Taylor & Francis Aristotles Moral Realism Reconsidered
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Taylor & Francis Aristotles Moral Realism Reconsidered
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminism and Ancient Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Socrates Against Athens
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Taylor & Francis Ancient Ethics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic Order Negation and Abstraction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd SelfIntellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Negotiating the Good Life
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aristotle Emotions and Education
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Inc Galens Prophecy Temperament In Human Nature
Book SynopsisNearly two thousand years ago a physician named Galen of Pergamon suggested that much of the variation in human behavior could be explained by an individual''s temperament. Since that time, inborn dispositions have fallen in and out of favor. Based on fifteen years of research, Galen''s Prophecy now provides fresh insights into these complex questions, offering startling new evidence to support Galen''s ancient classification of melancholic and sanguine adults. Integrating evidence and ideas from biology, philosophy, and psychology, Jerome Kagan examines the implications of the idea of temperament for aggressive behavior, conscience, psychopathology, and the degree to which each of us can be expected to control our deepest emotions.
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophers New Clothes The Theaetetus the Academy and Philosophys Turn against Fashion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies in Later Greek Philosophy and Gnosticism Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medieval Aristotelianism and its Limits Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy 12th15th Centuries 565 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good Essays on Ancient and Early Medieval Platonism Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Platos Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts
Book SynopsisPlato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato's famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato's Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato's philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato's Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of the sons of God and the dauTrade Review"Russell Gmirkin has presented ground-breaking research. The monograph is a tour de force in research on Ancient Near Eastern cultures. He has posited novel interpretations, in particular his interpretation of the early chapters of the book of Genesis, which is enlightening. There can no longer be any doubt that the Greek translators of Genesis had contact with and made use of Platonic ideas."-Johann Cook, Platonism and the Bibles, Theological StudiesTable of Contents1. Comparative Methodology and Genesis 1-11, 2. Genesis 1 and Creation Myths, 3. Genesis 1 and Greek Cosmogenies, 4. Genesis 1 as Philosophy, 5. Genesis 1 as Science, 6. Genesis 2-3 as Myth, 7. Genesis 2-11 and Plato’s Critias, 8. Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in Plato and the Bible
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Taylor & Francis Conservatism Past and Present
In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction, Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a coherent and compelling set of historically rooted ideas about conserving and promoting the human good. Part I, âœConservatism Past,â presents a history of conservative ideas, exploring themes, such as the search for wisdom, the limits of philosophy, reform in preference to revolution, the relationship between authority and freedom, and liberty as a living tradition. Major figures include Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Burke, G.W.F. Hegel, and Roger Scruton. Part II, âœConservatism Present,â applies philosophical conservatism to contemporary conservative politics, focusing on issues such as nationalism, populism, the family, education, and responsibility.Rogers shows that conservatism has been defined differently at different times: as a loose set of connected ideas reacting against the French Revolution; as a kind of disposition or in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Emergent Container in Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisDrawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores Absence' and Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.Bringing together absence and future with Plato's concept of the receptacle' as described in the Timaeus and with Whitehead's handling of it, the author examines containment in psychoanalytic process. Here Jung's concept of container' (Tavistock Lectures, 1935) is in an ancient and continuing tradition of process thinking. The term emergent container' has been coined as the metaphorical and metaphysical space where the interplay between potentiality and actuality meet in the process of emergent reality. As absence emerges, experience consciousness develops, as well as the potential for symbolic thinking. In this sense, the experience of absence is considered as a potential container for and of creativity. If absence does not emeTrade Review'This book invites reflection on the nature of thought in relation to philosophical and analytic concepts of absence. Psychological practitioners have much to gain from this examination of thinking from the Greeks to the recent past.'Lesley Murdin, psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Cambridge and author of several books including How Much is Enough? and How Money Talks'This is a work of great reach and originality. The book will be invaluable to therapists wanting to deepen their understanding of psychic development. It will also be of real interest to those fascinated by the unconscious processes and roots of creativity — whether that is expressed through the arts or in a lived life. It explores the nature of containment that can lead to psychosis or to sublimation and inventiveness. The ideas put forward have implications for clinical practice and offer much food for imaginative thought.'Maggie Murray, psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice'A refreshingly new look at the foundations of psychoanalysis in relation to the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who turns out to be more than relevant. Deep thinking from a contemporary psychotherapist, practicing in a greatly changed world.'Jenny Pearson, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and dramatherapist and author of several books including Analyst of the Imagination, the Life and Work of Charles Rycroft and Discovering the Self through Drama and Movement, the Sesame Approach Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Absence and Future 2. Hallucination as Pathology and as Entrée into the Collective Unconscious 3. Bion's Theory of Thinking, Absence, Container/Contained. Projective Identification and Hallucination 4. Absence and Precursor to Pathological Organisation and Equally as Basic to Psychic Life 5. Negative Capability 6. Experience and Whitehead: "Philosophy is a lure for feeling" (Whitehead, 1929) 7. Whitehead and Heraclitus: Permanence, Flux and Novelty 8. Being, Becoming and Modes of Being 9. Quaternio 10. Formlessness 11. Interrelations Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece
Book SynopsisThis book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts.It explores the notion of kingship offered by historians such as Herodotus, as well as dramatists writing for the Athenian stage, paying particular attention to dramatic depictions of the unique capabilities of Theseus in uniting the city in the figure of the democratic king'. It also discusses kingship in Greek philosophy: the Socratics' identification of an art of kingship', and Xenophon and Isocrates' model of virtue monarchy'. In turn, these allow a rereading of explorations of kingship and excellence in Plato's later political thought, seen as a critique of these models, and also in Aristotle's account of total kingship or pambasileia, treated here as a counterfactual device devTrade Review"Atack’s elegant and clever book situates itself amid recent discussions of kingship, from Graeber and Sahlins to Strathern. It focuses on texts from Herodotus to Aristotle, between the Homeric king and the late Hellenistic period of Philodemus. The focus is Greek even when speaking of foreign kings, and notwithstanding Atack’s impressive awareness of the huge literature on external kings in their own contexts (and bibliography in general)... [The book] works on at least two levels. First, it offers astute readings of some well-known texts, and succeeds without any doubt in reconceptualizing the Greek discourse of kingship (and kingliness) in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, in Athens especially. Second, it asks challenging methodological questions about sole rule and regality, which make the book of a wider interest. Atack's framework might work interestingly in relation to the Roman emperor, for example. The argument is concise and clear, and should provoke debate at the same level of seriousness and intellectual ambition with which it is written." - Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. King and Cosmos in Herodotus 2. Monarchy on the Democratic Stage 3. The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought 4. Kingship and Socratic Thought 5. Virtue and Monarchy 6. Kingship in Plato’s Later Political Thought 7. ‘Total Kingship’ and the Rule of Law 8. Conclusion: the Imaginary King and the Metaphysics of Political Unity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Extreme Philosophy
Book SynopsisPhilosophy's value and power are greatly diminished when it operates within a too closely confined professional space. Extreme Philosophy: Bold Ideas and a Spirit of Progress serves as an antidote to the increasing narrowness of the field. It offers readersincluding students and general readerstwenty internationally acclaimed philosophers who highlight and defend odd, extreme, or mad' ideas. The resulting conjectures are often provocative and bold, but always clear and accessible.Ideas discussed in the book, include: propaganda need not be irrational science need not be rational extremism need not be bad tax evasion need not be immoral anarchy need not be uninviting democracy need not remain as it generally is humans might have immaterial souls human minds might have all-but-unlimited powers knowing might be nothing beyond being correct space and time might not be out there' in reality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Socratic Dialogue
Book SynopsisGiving Voice to Values is a very important tool that has helped many professionals better align what they do with what they value and believe. This book introduces the methodology of Socratic Dialogue as a complementary set of tools for creating spaces of joint reflection in which one can gain clarity about one's values and gain the confidence to voice them effectively.Socrates' main concern was to progressively reach a higher alignment between ideas and actions: that is, to achieve a harmony between what we think, what we say and what we do. The first step to giving voice to our values involves introspection and dialogue with others which is how we can become aware of what we really think and value. An examined life, Socrates reminds us, is a fulfilled one. Based on the authors'' more than ten years' experience teaching Socratic Dialogue to business and law students, executives and professionals, faculty, incarcerated people and other vulnerable groups, the book prov
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida
Book SynopsisPhilosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy. In updating this Seventh Edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late-Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to each thinker's philosophy or widely accepted as part of the canon. To make the works more accessible to students, most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings, etc.) have been omitted and important words from antiquity have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition, each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life), (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher's thought), and (3) bibliograTable of ContentsPrefaceTimeline PART I: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHYSocrates and PlatoEuthyphroApologyCritoPhaedo (72c–83e, 114e–118b)Republic (Book I, 336b–342e, 347b–e; Book II, 357a–362c, 368a–376e; Book III, 412b–417b; Book IV, 427c–445e; Book V, 449–462e, 473b–e; and Books VI–VII, 502c–521b) 59AristotlePhysics (Book II, complete)Metaphysics (Book I, 1–4, 6, 9; and Book XII, 6–9)On the Soul (Book II, Chapters 1–3; and Book III, 4–5)Nicomachean Ethics (Books I–II; Book IV, 3; Books VI–VII; and Book X, 6–8)PART II: HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHYEpicurusLetter to MenoeceusPrincipal DoctrinesEpictetusHandbook (Enchiridion)Pyrrho and Sextus EmpiricusOutlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1–13)PlotinusPorphyry’s Life of Plotinus (selections)Enneads (Ennead I, Tractate 6)PART III: CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHYAugustineConfessions (Book VIII, 5, 8–12; and Book XI, 14–28)City of God (Book XI, Chapter 26; and Book XII, Chapters 1–9)BoethiusThe Consolation of Philosophy (Book V, Chapter 6)Anselm (and Gaunilo)Proslogion (Preface; Chapters 1–4)Gaunilo and Anselm: Debate (selections)Hildegard of BingenScivias (Book I, Vision 4, 16–26)Moses MaimonidesThe Guide for the Perplexed (Part II, Introduction)Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica (selections)William of OckhamSumma Logicae (On Universals Part I, Chapters 14–16)Giovanni Pico della MirandolaOration on the Dignity of Man (in part)PART IV: MODERN PHILOSOPHYFrancis BaconNovum Organum (Preface, Book I, Chapters 3-4, 7-8, 11-12, 14, 19, 22, 24-25, 31, 36, 38-44; Book II, Chapter 10)René DescartesMeditations on the First PhilosophyCorrespondence with Princess Elizabeth (selections)Thomas HobbesLeviathan (selections from Chapters 1–3, 6, 9, 12–15, 17–18, 21)Blaise PascalPensées (selections)Baruch SpinozaEthics (Sections I and II)John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding (abridged)Gottfried LeibnizDiscourse on MetaphysicsThe MonadologyGeorge BerkeleyThree Dialogues Between Hylas and PhilonousDavid HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingJean-Jacques RousseauThe Social Contract (Book I)Immanuel KantProlegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsGroundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsOn a Supposed Right to Lie From Altruistic MotivesMary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Chapter 6)PART V: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHYG.W.F. HegelPhenomenology of Spirit (B, IV, A: "Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Relations of Master and Servant")Lectures on the History of Philosophy ("The Final Result")John Stuart MillUtilitarianismSøren KierkegaardFear and Trembling (Problema I: "Teleological Suspension of the Ethical")Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Section II, Chapter 2, "Subjective Truth, Inwardness; Truth Is Subjectivity") Karl MarxTheses on FeuerbachEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 ("Alienated Labor")Manifesto of the Communist Party (Chapters 1 and 2)A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Preface)Notes on Bakunin’s Statehood and Anarchy (selections)William JamesPragmatism (Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means)Friedrich NietzscheThe Birth of Tragedy (Chapters 1–3)The Gay Science (selections)Twilight of the Idols (selections)The Anti-Christ (First Book, 2–7, 62)PART VI: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHYEdited by Hans Bynagle Edmund HusserlPhenomenology (Encyclopaedia Brittanica article)W.E.B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folks (Chapter 1)Bertrand RussellThe Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1 & 15)Martin HeideggerIntroduction to Metaphysics (Chapter 1: "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics") 1101Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Preface Sections 1–3.1431,4, 4.06, 4.1, 5, 5.6, 6.4–7) 1131Philosophical Investigations (Paragraphs 1–47, 65–71, 241, 257–258, 305, 309) 1139A.J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic (Preface and Chapter 1: "Elimination of Metaphysics") Jean-Paul SartreExistentialism Is a HumanismSimone De BeauvoirThe Second Sex (Introduction)Willard Van Orman QuineTwo Dogmas of EmpiricismJacques DerridaOf Grammatology ("The Written Being/The Being Written")
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Socrates II
Book SynopsisSocrates is perhaps the most famous philosopher in the Western intellectual tradition. He raised fundamental questions, such as what is justice?' and does virtue produce happiness?'. Although he wrote nothing himself, he is the source of a vast literature, beginning with Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle, and continuing to the present day.In the two decades since the first Routledge Critical Assessments collection on Socrates was prepared for publication (Socrates (1996) (978-0-415-10968-0)), scholarly work has blossomed anew, not least in response to Gregory Vlastos's Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher and Charles Kahn's Plato and the Socratic Dialogue. This new Routledge anthology, compiled by the editor of the first collection, takes full account of the many important developments that have taken place since the mid-1990s. Socrates II assembles in one easy-to-use resource the major works produced by established and rising scholars in th
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses
Book SynopsisLike us, the ancient Greeks and Romans came to know and understand the world through their senses. Yet sensory experience has rarely been considered in the study of antiquity and, when the senses are examined, sight is regularly privileged. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. It offers both a fresh look at society in the ancient world and an opportunity to deepen the reading of classical literature. The book will appeal to readers in classical society and literature, philosophy and cultural history. All Greek and Latin is translated and technical matters are explained for the non-specialist. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explores the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature.Trade Review"This agenda-setting collection challenges us to look beyond the 'visual/textual' paradigm and gives us a taste of the fascinating sensual and aesthetic possibilities afforded by the other senses, individually and in concert." - Victoria Wohl - University of Toronto "Previous forays into a sensory approach to the Classical world have been somewhat disparate, and an entire volume on the topic is to be welcomed - The thirteen chapters in this volume range widely from Homer to Quintilian, and flirt with all of the five senses as recognised in a modern western sensorium (vision, hearing, touch, taste and olfaction), individually and in a more multisensory manner." - Digressus: The Internet Journal for the Classical WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction, Shane Butler and Alex Purves; 1. Why Are There Nine Muses?, James I. Porter; 2. Haptic Herodotus, Alex Purves; 3. The Understanding Ear: Synaesthesia, Paraesthesia, and Talking Animals, Mark Payne; 4. Aristophanes, Cratinus and the Smell of Comedy, Mario Telo; 5. "Looking Mustard": Greek Popular Epistemology and the Meaning of aneiyo, Ashley Clements; 6. Plato, Beauty and "Philosophical Synaesthesia", Ralph M. Rosen; 7. Manilius' Cosmos of the Senses, Katharina Volk; 8. Reading Death and the Senses in Lucan and Lucretius, Brian Walters; 9. Colour as Synaesthetic Experience in Antiquity, Mark Bradley; 10. Blinded by the Light: Oratorical Clarity and Poetic Obscurity in Quintilian, Curtis Dozier; 11. The Sense of a Poem: Ovids Banquet of Sence (1595), Sean Keilen; 12. Saussure's Anaphonie: Sounds Asunder, Joshua Katz; 13. Beyond Narcissus, Shane Butler; Bibliography
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Cambridge University Press Cicero
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Cambridge University Press Science and Speculation
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Cambridge University Press Philolaus of Croton
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Cambridge University Press Language and Logos
Book SynopsisAt the heart of G. E. L. Owen's work has been a preoccupation with the role of philosophical reflection on language in the metaphysics and epistemology of Plato, Aristotle and other ancient Greek thinkers. Written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of G. E. L. Owen, this is a book for specialists in Greek philosophy and philosophers of language which will also be of interest to some linguists.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Heraclitus' conceptions of flux, fire and material persistence David Wiggins; 2. Epistemology and meaning in Heraclitus Edward Hussey; 3. The dénouement of the Cratylus Malcolm Schofield; 4. Cratylus' theory of names and its refutation Bernard Williams; 5. Knowledge and language: the Theaetetus and the Cratylus Julia Annas; 6. Falsehood and not-being in Plato's Sophist John McDowell; 7. Forms and dialectic in the second half of the Parmenides Julius M. Moravcsik; 8. Aristotle and the more accurate arguments Gail Fine; 9. Aristotle on the principles of change in Physics I David Bostock; 10. Aristotle on natural teleology John M. Cooper; 11. Accidental unities Gareth B. Matthews; 12. Aristotle's concept of signification T. H. Irwin; 13. Saving Aristotle's appearances Martha Craven Nussbaum; 14. Myths about non-propositional thought Richard Sorabji; 15. Gods and heaps M. F. Burnyeat; Bibliography of the publications of G. E. L. Owen; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle in China Language Categories and Translation 2 Needham Research Institute Studies Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Plato
Book SynopsisThis is a critical edition of the Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato. Professor Slings here provides a text accompanied by a translation. The book also contains a very extensive introduction and a commentary in English.Trade Review"This book is an important and original work of scholarship, well and thoroughly done." Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialogue: 1. Introduction; 2. Summary and analysis of composition; 3. Is the Clitophon unfinished?; 4. The Clitophon as a Short Dialogue; 5. The characters of the dialogue; Part II. Meaning and Authenticity: 6. Philosophical protreptic in the fourth century BCE; 7. Protreptic in the Clitophon; 8. Protreptic in Plato; 9. Elenchos in the Clitophon; 10. Justice in the Clitophon; 11. The meaning of the Clitophon; 12. Date and authenticity; Text and translation; Commentary; Appendices: I. The ending of Aristotle's Protrepticus; II. Note on the text; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato
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Cambridge University Press Plato and His Predecessors
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Cambridge University Press Epicurus and Democritean Ethics An Archaeology of Ataraxia Cambridge Classical Studies
Book SynopsisThe Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century BC philosopher Democritus, but this 2002 study finds that there is much in his ethical thought which can be traced to Democritus. It also finds important influences on Epicurus in Democritus' fourth-century followers such as Anaxarchus and Pyrrho, and in Epicurus' disagreements with his own Democritean teacher Nausiphanes. The result is not only a fascinating reconstruction of a lost tradition, but also an important contribution to the philosophical interpretation of Epicureanism, bearing especially on its ideal of tranquillity and on the relation of ethics to physics.Trade Review'In this book Warren shows himself well equipped with the tools of philosophical archaeology, and admirably skilled in their use … guides the reader expertly … Warren imparts much fascinating information …' Journal of the Society for Greek Political ThoughtTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Epicurus, Democritus and ataraxia; 1. Introducing the Democriteans; 2. Democritus' ethics and atomist psychologies; 3. Anaxarchus' moral stage; 4. Pyrrho and Timon: inhuman indifference; 5. Polystratus and Epicurean pigs; 6. Hecataeus of Abdera's instructive ethnography; 7. Nausiphanes' compelling rhetoric; Conclusion: Epicurus and Democriteanism: determinism, scepticism and ethics; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.
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Cambridge University Press The Greek Cosmologists
Book SynopsisThis book is for anyone interested in the history of science and philosophy, even if they have no specialized knowledge of Greek philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Two pictures of the world; 2. The judgement of Socrates; 3. The beginning in Miletus; 4. Two philosophical critics: Heraclitus and Parmenides; 5. Pythagoras, Parmenides, and later cosmology; 6. Anaxagoras; 7. Empedocles and the invention of elements; 8. Later Eleatic critics; 9. Leucippus and Democritus; 10. The cosmos of the Atomists; 11. The anthropology of the Atomists; 12. Plato's criticisms of the materialists; 13. Aristotle's criticisms of the materialists; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Substance Form and Psyche
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Cambridge University Press Scepticism or Platonism The Philosophy of the Fourth Academy Cambridge Classical Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Epistemology of the Cyrenaic School
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Cambridge University Press Platos Introduction of Forms
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Cambridge University Press The Unity of Platos Sophist
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Cambridge University Press Reading Neoplatonism Nondiscursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus Proclus and Damascius
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