Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Books
Parmenides Publishing Parmenides and the History of Dialectic: Three
Book SynopsisParmenides and the History of Dialectic is a study of Greek philosophical method as it affects contemporary philosophical issues. What was distinctive about the method of Parmenides, the inventor of philosophical argument as we know it? How did Parmenides' method affect Plato's dialectic, which was supposed to provide the solution to all ultimate philosophical problems? How, in turn, did Plato influence Hegel and our subsequent tradition?There are many studies of Parmenides' text, its philosophical content, and its influence. This study aims to do something different, to look at the form of the argument, the scope of its positive and negative language, the balanced structure its author generates, and the clear parallels with Plato's Parmenides.Along the way, Austin considers issues like these: was Parmenides, an absolute monist, entitled to speak at all, and in many negative words at that? How did he think that his own language related to the reality that he was trying to describe? What was his notion of the use of metaphor? What logical techniques did he invent? Has his type of philosophy come to an end?Trade ReviewThe three essays of Austin’s subtitle are, respectively, ‘Parmenidean Dialectic’ (1-27), which asserts that the central Parmenides fragment, B8, bespeaks a method that recurs in the second part of Plato’s Parmenides; ‘Parmenidean Metaphysics’ (29-49), which mostly makes claims about the ‘signposts’ cited in B8; and ‘Parmenides and the History of Dialectic’ (51-83), which compares B8 with the dialectic of a number of later figures, especially Plato, Aquinas, and Hegel. The essays are given a certain unity—hence their appearance together here—by the author’s predominant concern with the structure of Parmenides’ thought as opposed to its content"". - Ancient Philosophy
£25.56
Parmenides Publishing Black Market Truth Volume 1
Book SynopsisA secret concealed for centuries, shrouded in myth, silenced by stone.A secret that if unleashed threatens to shake the very foundation of Western civilization.A secret that can remain hidden no longer.The quest begins in Rome, where a grisly murder and a plundered tomb serve to ignite perhaps the most controversial conflict in human history. Inspector Domenico Conti is charged with the task of recovering the contents of the tomb, but as he delves deeper into the investigation, he is thrust into the center of a centuries-old struggle between truth and those who would stop at nothing to conceal it. But he is not alone.Dr. Dana McCarter, newly appointed director of the Advanced Institute for the Study of Antiquity, finds herself at the heart of the mystery when her considerable expertise in ancient Greek philosophy and her suspect involvement with the black market take her on a journey beginning in her New York University offices and sweeping around the globe—from the dark alleys of Moscow, to the rolling hills of the Italian countryside and the enigmatic relics of an ancient civilization, alive with long-kept secrets.As the search for answers leads them through a labyrinth of conspiracy and intrigue, Dana and Domenico must question everything they believe in and decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to know the truth.Trade ReviewIf you haven't recently thought much about the lost writings of Aristotle, and even if you find the philosophical dialogue a soporific literary genre, you may well find yourself inclined otherwise while devouring Black Market Truth, a 'philosophical suspense thriller' and page-turner by Sharon Kaye"". - San Francisco Chronicle
£21.21
Parmenides Publishing Black Market Truth
Book SynopsisA secret concealed for centuries, shrouded in myth, silenced by stone.A secret that if unleashed threatens to shake the very foundation of Western civilization.A secret that can remain hidden no longer.The quest begins in Rome, where a grisly murder and a plundered tomb serve to ignite perhaps the most controversial conflict in human history. Inspector Domenico Conti is charged with the task of recovering the contents of the tomb, but as he delves deeper into the investigation, he is thrust into the center of a centuries-old struggle between truth and those who would stop at nothing to conceal it. But he is not alone.Dr. Dana McCarter, newly appointed director of the Advanced Institute for the Study of Antiquity, finds herself at the heart of the mystery when her considerable expertise in ancient Greek philosophy and her suspect involvement with the black market take her on a journey beginning in her New York University offices and sweeping around the globe—from the dark alleys of Moscow, to the rolling hills of the Italian countryside and the enigmatic relics of an ancient civilization, alive with long-kept secrets.As the search for answers leads them through a labyrinth of conspiracy and intrigue, Dana and Domenico must question everything they believe in and decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to know the truth.Trade ReviewIf you haven't recently thought much about the lost writings of Aristotle, and even if you find the philosophical dialogue a soporific literary genre, you may well find yourself inclined otherwise while devouring Black Market Truth, a 'philosophical suspense thriller' and page-turner by Sharon Kaye"". - San Francisco Chronicle
£14.20
Parmenides Publishing Plato's Parmenides: Text, Translation &
Book SynopsisThis translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Dr. Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelligibility with faithfulness—while maintaining sufficient consistency to allow the discernment of technical terms—great pains have been taken to secure both accuracy and accessibility. In his Foreword, Douglas Hedley gives an insightful account of the way the Parmenides was received by different cultures and philosophical schools throughout the centuries to the present day.Hermann’s Introduction, aimed at first time readers and professional interpreters alike, offers an overview of the most noted philosophical problems addressed in the dialogue, and of its historical background. In view of the fact that certain individual issues have been exhaustively explored by generations of scholars, Hermann chooses to focus also on subjects that have at times been passed over, or trivialized: the debt the dialogue may owe to the works of earlier thinkers, or whether it constitutes a response to certain critics of the Theory of Forms; as for the Theory itself, whether it is bolstered or superseded by the dialogue’s conclusions, or whether there is such a thing as a “simple,” unparticipated Form, and if there is, why it cannot be the subject of an account; also, the issue of the “interweaving of Forms,” (the Sophist) is discussed, in light of its possible relevance to the Second Part of the Parmenides. Finally, Hermann provides an overview with a listing and summaries of the individual conclusions to each of the eight central arguments of the dialgoue’s Second Part (plus Coda).Trade ReviewIn his 70-page introduction, Arnold Hermann himself is somewhat more restrained. He sees the First Part of the dialogue as targeting ‘naive misreadings’ (15) of the Theory of Forms, and the Second Part as ‘a successful attempt to illuminate the difficulties raised by the First’ (17). For instance (to take an easy example), a form is ‘itself by itself’, and such simplicity or straightforwardness is explored in Argument I of the Second Part. Or again, since Forms have to interweave, they can be seen as complex, such as the ‘One Being’ of Argument II. These are not original lines of thought, but the introduction well conveys the author's enthusiasm for a dialogue that strikes many as rather dry. Throughout, Hermann corroborates his views by drawing connections with the thought of the Parmenides and Zeno, and other Platonic passages"". - Heythrop Journal
£42.75
Parmenides Publishing Reading Aristotle: Physics VII.3 What is
Book SynopsisPhysics 7.3 is one of the crucial texts in Aristotle's theory of change, in which he deals with the question of what alteration is and what it is not. Aristotle discusses change in various parts of his writings, and seems to provide a broad range of notions: movement and change of place, alteration in aspect and form, temporal change, variation in the way a given being is perceived, the change in relationship between beings, qualitative and accidental alterations.This volume presents the results of the ESAP-HYELE conference on ""Aristotle, Physics 7.3: What is Alteration?"", which took place in Vitznau, Switzerland in 2007. The contributors are part of a team of Aristotelian scholars that first came together in 1995, and have since been meeting every spring. The purpose of their gatherings was to read and interpret line by line a short, but important chapter of Aristotle's works. In this way, attention was focused on key texts of particular exegetic and theoretical interest. Each session started with the presentation of a translation and a first analysis of the main problems; these then became the subject of an intense debate which illustrates the different schools of thought and methodological approaches.This volume sets out to provide the reader with new insights into Aristotle's: Physics 7.3.Trade ReviewThis book is a very useful tool for understanding Phys. VII.3 in several respects: first, because it focuses on a limited portion of text which focuses on aspects of textual exegesis and philosophy, and secondly because VII.3 currency in relation to other writings of Aristotle and thus it provides a 'global interpretation, and finally because we appreciate the effort that was made by the authors to compare their positions and hermeneutics to connect with each other, as well as the efforts of curators to harmonize the content of the whole book. The final outcome is certainly that of a volume indispensable for future studies on the subject"". - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
£27.71
Parmenides Publishing Aristotle's Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics
Book SynopsisIn Aristotle’s Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle’s natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored. She shows that much of Aristotle’s analysis of natural movement is influenced by mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian Physical Problems XVI to reconstruct the context of mechanics of Aristotle’s time and to trace the development of kinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian Mechanics. She argues that the influence of kinematics on Aristotle pinpoints the original meaning of his concept of power, or potentiality, as a physicalistic meaning addressed to the problem of movement.De Groot identifies epistemic features of kinematics as a scientific enterprise, including economy of explanation and direct inference to a principle. She shows how these features are woven into Aristotle’s thinking in the motion books of the Physics, On the Heavens, and Movement of Animals. The book places in doubt both the view that Aristotle’s natural philosophy codifies opinions held by convention and, alternatively, the view that the cogency of his scientific ideas depends on metaphysics.Trade ReviewThis book presents an ‘other’ or alternative Aristotle to the caricature and straw man set up through the mistaken Baconian capitulation to Democratean ‘sense data’, a non-empirical ideology that distorts rather than enhances our radical, unavoidable, pre-philosophic experience of power and necessity. This is a revolutionary book that transforms our view of Aristotle and specifically our evaluation of his natural philosophy"". - Heythrop Journal
£94.50
For Beginners Plato for Beginners
Book SynopsisAll philosophy is a footnote to Plato. No other person so shaped the Western world and the way we think about it.Plato''s questions remain as real for us today as they were 2500 years ago, and as human beings, we can not avoid their presence nor shirk our responsibility to attempt to answer them:What is Justice?What is Truth?What is Beauty?What kind of society should we build?How do we know what we know?PLATO FOR BEGINNERS introduces the reader to Socrates, Plato''s mentor whose martyrdom led Plato to formulate a new system of knowledge based on reason. Socrates was found guilty and sentenced to death for refusing to recognize the gods of the State and for introducing other divinities. He was also found guilty of corrupting youth.PLATO FOR BEGINNERS also covers the history of Greece as well as the life and ideas of this great philosopher and his influence over time, from early Christianity to the 20th Century. The reader learns what he meant by Truth, Beauty, and the Good. Classical dialogues such as Symposium, Phaedo, The Apology and The Republic are all explored in the context of his time and our own.
£12.34
Les Belles Lettres Themistios, Discours I-IV. Les Heritiers de
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Les Belles Lettres Themistios, Tome II. Discours V-XIII: Les
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£101.65
Les Belles Lettres Libanios Apologie de Socrate Suivie de Socrate
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£60.80
Les Belles Lettres Livre II De La Divination. Tome II
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£54.15
Les Belles Lettres Provocation Et Verite: Forme Et Sens Des
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£69.00
Les Belles Lettres Maxime de Tyr, Choix de Conferences: Religion Et
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£33.46
Les Belles Lettres La Poetique de Platon
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Les Belles Lettres Pensees Pour Moi-Meme
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£18.58
Les Belles Lettres Antiquite Critique Et Modernite: Essai Sur Le
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£27.00
Les Belles Lettres Aristote, Du Ciel
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Les Belles Lettres Comme Un Nouvel Atlas: D'Un Etat Meilleur Que La
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Les Belles Lettres Epicure Lettres Maximes Et Sentences
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Les Belles Lettres Les Deipnosophistes Livre XII
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Les Belles Lettres Platon
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£27.54
Les Belles Lettres Les Stoiciens II: Le Stoicisme Intermediaire
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£25.80
Classiques Garnier La Stasis Dans La Politique d'Aristote: La Cite
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£64.60
Classiques Garnier Mendiants Et Mendicite En Grece Ancienne
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Classiques Garnier Les Savoirs de lInvisible
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Brepols N.V. Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin
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£137.75
Brepols N.V. Grasp and Dissent: Cicero and Epicurean
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£101.65
Brepols N.V. Eloquent Wisdom: Rhetoric, Cosmology and Delight
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Brepols N.V. When Wisdom Calls: Philosophical Protreptic in
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£131.10
Brepols N.V. Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin
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Brepols N.V. Philosopher-Monks, Episcopal Authority, and the
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Brepols Publishers Foreign Influences
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Brepols Publishers Dealing with Disagreement: The Construction of
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Brepols Publishers Pseudo-Aristotelian Texts in Medieval Thought:
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Brepols Publishers Ptolemys Cosmology in Greek and Arabic
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Brepols Publishers Breve Compendium in Duo Prima Capita Tertii de
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Classiques Garnier La Lanterne de Diogene
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Fondation Hardt Entre Orient Et Occident: La Philosophie Et La
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Aristote: Les Premiers Analytiques: Organon 3
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£17.15
Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Aristote: Ethique a Eudeme
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£15.18
Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin La Definition de l'Etre Et La Nature Des Idees
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£26.60
Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Proclus: Commentaires Sur Le Timee Livre 1
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Proclus: Commentaires Sur Le Timee Livre 5
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Ecrits II Etudes de Philosophie Moderne
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Commentaire Du Traite de lAme dAristote
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Le Paradigme Dans La Dialectique Platonicienne
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Les Megariques: Fragments Et Temoignages
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Desir Et Difference Dans La Tradition
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