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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Plato on Knowledge and Reality
Book SynopsisOffers an account of Plato's epistemology. This title places Plato's preoccupation in historical perspective, without belittling the intrinsic difficulties of the problems he tackled.Trade ReviewA complete and unified account of Plato's epistemology . . . scholarly, historically sensitive, and philosophically sophisticated. Above all it is sensible. . . . White's strength is that he places Plato's preoccupation in careful historical perspective, without belittling the intrinsic difficulties of the problems he tackled. . . . White's project is to find a continuous argument running through Plato's various attacks on epistemological problems. No summary can do justice to his remarkable success. --Ronald B. De Sousa, University of Toronto, in Phoenix
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc A Companion to Platos Republic
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Aristotle Selections
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co On the Nature of Things
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the
Book SynopsisIn addition to works by Plato and Xenophon, we know of dozens of treatises and dialogues written by followers of Socrates that are now lost. The surviving evidence for these writings constitutes an invaluable resource for our understanding of Socrates and his philosophical legacy. The Circle of Socrates presents new--sometimes the first--English translations of a representative selection of this evidence, set alongside extracts from Plato and Xenophon. The texts are arranged according to theme, with concise introductions that provide an overview of the topics and the main lines of thought within them.The aim is to give a fuller account of the philosophical activity of Socrates' immediate followers: both to shed light on less well known figures (some of whom inspired schools and movements that were influential in the development of later thought), and also to improve our grasp of the intellectual context within which Plato and Xenophon, the most important of the Socratics, lived and wrote. Included are a general introduction to the history, content, and character of these writings; a bibliography; an index of sources; and an index of the Socratics and their works.
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Princeton University Press Aristotles Politics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Vii Politics 1 Economics 226 Constitution Of Athens 260 Index Of Names 327 Subject Index 331
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Princeton University Press Of Rule and Office
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] meticulous new analysis of Plato’s constitutionalism. . . . With the appearance of Melissa Lane’s authoritative Of Rule and Office, debate over the evolution of Plato’s discussion of the vulnerabilities of political office and the various ways in which rule and office might be understood must be nearly at an end."---Andrew David Irvine, Times Literary Supplement
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Princeton University Press How to Be a Farmer
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I loved the book. I love the Princeton University Press series. I've read a dozen of these now; they're all awesome but I was very excited to see this one."---Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic podcast"This book is a gem."---Jonathan Self, Country Life"[A]n engaging mixture of history, philosophy, [and] poetry. . . . [T]his suitably sturdy volume is small enough to fit easily into the knapsack or the pocket of the hill-walker or the eco-tourist and would give him plenty of food for thought as he eats his ploughman’s lunch."---John Godwin, Journal of Classics Teaching
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MB - Cornell University Press Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the...Trade Review"Alfarabi is now considered to be the founder of Muslim philosophy, and proves to be not simply the bridge for carrying over the thought of Aristotle and Plato into Western thought but a man of great originality. . . . Muhsin Mahdi makes clear that Alfarabi is not a popularizer but a man of great subtlety of thought and one who discerns the significance of Plato unmixed with Neo-Platonic philosophy."—Choice"Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle will be of incomparable value to those who are interested in the way in which the major ideas of Plato and Aristotle had been accepted, understood, and developed by the Muslim thinkers within the confines of the Islamic cultural milieu before these great philosophical ideas were introduced into the mainstream of scholastic philosophy in the West."—Philosophy East and West
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New York University Press Greek Philosophical Terms
Book SynopsisIsolates terms and offers an evolutionary history of the concept instead of a mere definitionTable of ContentsPreface; Preliminary note; Greek philosophical terms; English-Greek index
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Cornell University Press From Plato to Platonism
Book SynopsisWas Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato's own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato's teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato''s dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of anti-naturalism.Gerson contends that the philosophical position of PlatoPlato's own PlatoniTrade Review..the book is an important achievement. It is full of precious observations and suggestions. Even if someone is not fully convinced by the application of such an historical set of criteria he will find the book a highly rewarding reading. -- Péter Lautner * The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition *Gerson's book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Plato nism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Plato appears as a Platonist indeed. -- Claas Lattman * CLASSICAL JOURNAL *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part 1. Plato and His Readers 1. Was Plato a Platonist? Plato and Platonism Ur-Platonism From Plato to Platonism 2. Socrates and Platonism The 'Socratic Problem' Gregory Vlastos Terry Penner Christopher Rowe 3. Reading the Dialogues Platonically Plato and Developmentalism Plato the Artist, Plato the Philosopher Plato’s Self-Testimony 4. Aristotle on Plato and Platonism Aristotle and Ur-Platonism Aristotle’s Testimony on the Mathematization of Forms Aristotle’s Criticism of the Mathematization of Forms Part 2. The Continuing Creation of Platonism 5. The Old Academy Speusippus and First Principles Speusippean Knowledge Xenocrates 6. The Academic Skeptics What Is Academic Skepticism? Skepticism, Rationalism, and Platonism 7. Platonism in the ‘Middle’ Antiochus of Ascalon Plutarch of Chaeronea Alcinous 8. Numenius of Apamea On the Good Part 3. Plotinus: "Exegete of the Platonic Revelation" 9. Platonism as a System The First Principle of All Intellect Soul Matter 10. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (1) Matter in the Platonic System Substance and Becoming Categories in the Intelligible World The One and the Indefinite Dyad The Good Is Eros 11. Plotinus as Interpreter of Plato (2) Human and Person Assimilation to the Divine Moral Responsibility Conclusion Bibliography
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Metaphysics
Book SynopsisThis new translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics in its entirety is a model of accuracy and consistency, presented with a wealth of annotation and commentary. Sequentially numbered endnotes provide the information most needed at each juncture, while a detailed Index of Terms guides the reader to places where focused discussion of key notions occurs. An illuminating general Introduction describes the book that lies ahead, explaining what it is about, what it is trying to do, how it goes about doing it, and what sort of audience it presupposes.Trade Review"C. D. C. Reeve adds to his already remarkable series of translations of Plato and Aristotle another stellar accomplishment: a full translation of Aristotle's daunting Metaphysics. He has managed to present Aristotle’s often ungainly Greek into perfectly flowing English syntax without sacrificing the core meaning of the text. Any translator of Aristotle will recognize what an impressive achievement this is. All readers will benefit from the over 1,600 explicative notes accompanying the translation: Reeve has a discerning eye for determining what requires amplification for the purposes of understanding and an admirable gift for saying just as much as needs to be said in order to achieve it." —Christopher Shields, George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame"C. D. C. Reeve's new translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics is a very welcome tool for students, teachers, and scholarly readers. This accurate translation comes with a wealth of notes that explain Aristotle's thought or refer to or quote parallel passages from other parts of the Metaphysics or other Aristotelian works." —Mirjam E. Kotwick, University of Cincinnati, in Ancient Philosophy"Reeve's emendations and translations are philosophically sensitive and he scrupulously offers the alternatives in his notes. I can't fault his translation strategy, which balances literalism and readability without sacrificing accuracy and empowers readers to evaluate his choices. The interpretive notes Reeve offers are useful, but are not intended to serve as a full commentary. They will, however, help students and provide a rich resource of inspiration for researchers. The learning, skill and range exhibited by Reeve are astonishing. In short, if you teach or research Aristotle, Reeve offers a valuable addition to the English-language resources on the Metaphysics." —Matthew Duncombe, University of Nottingham, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Phaedrus
Book SynopsisFeatures an appendix that contains the fragments of early Greek love poetry which helps the reader appreciate the rich, and perhaps elusive, meaning of eros.Trade ReviewA superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive. A one-page outline is useful since there are no editorial additions to mark major divisions in the dialogue. An appendix containing fragments of early Greek love poetry helps the reader appreciate the rich, and perhaps elusive, meaning of eros. . . . The entire Introduction is crisply written, and the authors' erudition shines throughout, without a trace of pedantry. . . . this is an excellent book that deservedly should find wide circulation for many years to come. --Tim Mahoney, University of Texas at Arlington
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WW Norton & Co Breakfast with Seneca
Book SynopsisThe first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher SenecaTrade Review"Reading Breakfast with Seneca is like sitting down for a good cup of coffee with a wise and compassionate friend." -- Eric Weiner, author of The Socrates Express"This book is the perfect antidote to the commercialism and superficial values of modern times. [Fideler] channels Seneca without distortion and makes him accessible to the twenty-first-century reader." -- Robin Waterfield, translator of Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus"[A] great introduction to both Seneca and Stoicism and will even help those already familiar with these writings to gain more benefit from them." -- Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor"The most companionable of the new Stoic books." -- Molly Young - The New York Times"In Breakfast with Seneca [David Fideler] explains his habit of poring over the Roman philosopher with his morning coffee and omelette. Writing with charm and clarity, he argues that Seneca’s philosophy can help us ‘live a happy, flourishing life’." -- Emily Thomas - The Times Literary Supplement
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Boatwhistle Books Enchiridion
Book SynopsisThe Enchiridion (handbook') of Epictetus is one of the most well-known and best-loved works of ancient Greek literature. Based on the solid theoretical foundation of Stoic thought, this is indeed a highly accessible handbook giving practical advice on how to live a better life. It is as relevant now as ever it was.
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Princeton University Press How to Be Free
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Michael Dirda's Best Books of 2018""Princeton University Press’s new edition of Epictetus’s Encheiridion and selected Discourses, titled How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life, is the latest entry in a wave of works, both popular and scholarly, on Stoicism. . . . How to Be Free seeks to bridge the worlds of both kinds of readers. Translated and introduced by Long, a renowned scholar of Stoicism and classics professor at UC Berkeley, the work presents the Greek text and English translation on facing pages. While the original text is, well, Greek to me, Long’s translation is sharp and straightforward — qualities always associated with Epictetus’s teachings."---Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books"A remarkable insight."---Ryan Holiday, Medium"Anybody who is about to go into a party or pool with people that are likely to try our patience can benefit from reading a couple of paragraphs from this book to reaffirm one’s determination to remain stoic in this disheveled wilderness." * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *"Any book that offers Stoic wisdom, whether diluted or updated, translated or condensed into bullet points, is meeting a perennial human need."---Rachel Hadas, Hudson Review
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Harvard University Press Phaedrus and Ion
Book SynopsisMarsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.Trade ReviewOccasionally, a book arrives on my desk that makes me absurdly happy. And in this miasmal winter of our fiscal discontent, I am grateful for such small serendipities… The first is Volume 1 of Commentaries on Plato by 15th-century Florentine scholar and magus Marsilio Ficino. -- Martin Levin * Globe and Mail *
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Harvard University Press Platonic Theology: Volume 1
Book SynopsisPlatonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.Trade ReviewAn aristocratic devotion to our culture continues to manifest itself even today in the most prestigious centers of study and thought. One has merely to look at the very recent (begun in 2001), rigorous and elegant humanistic series of Harvard University, with the original Latin text, English translation, introduction and notes. -- Vittore Branca * Il Sole 24 Ore *The editing and translation of Ficino's text has been done superbly well. Allen and Hankins have begun a work of scholarship of the highest calibre, whose continuation is eagerly awaited. * British Journal for the History of Philosophy *The Loeb Classical Library...has been of incalculable benefit to generations of scholars...It seems certain that the I Tatti Renaissance Library will serve a similar purpose for Renaissance Latin texts, and that, in addition to its obvious academic value, it will facilitate a broadening base of participation in Renaissance Studies...These books are to be lauded not only for their principles of inclusivity and accessibility, and for their rigorous scholarship, but also for their look and feel. Everything about them is attractive: the blue of their dust jackets and cloth covers, the restrained and elegant design, the clarity of the typesetting, the quality of the paper, and not least the sensible price. This is a new set of texts well worth collecting. -- Kate Lowe * Times Literary Supplement *Ficino set out to show that the ancient Neoplatonic philosophy embodied a "gentile theological tradition," one that complemented the Mosaic revelation to the Jews and prepared its devotees for the final truths of Christianity. Ficino worked in full knowledge of the internal complications of Neoplatonism. He wrote and argued in styles that ranged from the logical and synthetic to the poetic and evocative, as he struggled to find ways to prove that the universe was orderly and governed by a Creator and to lay out the place within it of the immortal human soul. -- Anthony T. Grafton * New York Review of Books *
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Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Empire and the Ends of Politics
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Sextus Empiricus Selections from the Major
Book SynopsisA book that is suitable for undergraduate courses.Trade ReviewJudicious in every respect: selection, translation and structuring of the texts, footnotes, bibliography, and index. . . . The book of choice for undergraduate courses. --Edward M. Galligan, University of North Carolina
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Epicurus Reader
Book SynopsisA total philosophy of life, death, religion, ethics, and culture promising liberation from the obstacles that stand in the way of our happiness, the teachings of Epicurus claimed many thousand committed followers over the ancient Mediterranean world. This title fills the need for a reliable selection and translation of the main surviving evidence.
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Nilgiri Press Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe Bhagavad Gita opens with a crisis - Prince Arjuna despairs on the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita's epic battle represents the war in our own hearts and Arjuna's anguish reflects the human condition: torn between opposing forces, confused about how to live. Sri Krishna's timeless guidance, Easwaran argues, can shed light on our dilemmas today. Placing the Gita's teachings in a modern context, Easwaran explores the nature of reality, the illusion of separateness, the search for identity, the meaning of yoga, and how to heal the unconscious. The key message of the Gita is how to resolve our conflicts and live in harmony with the deep unity of life, through the practice of meditation and spiritual disciplines. Sri Krishna doesn't tell Arjuna what to do. He points out the prince's choices, and then leaves it to Arjuna to decide. Easwaran shows us clearly how these teachings still apply - and how, like Arjuna, we must take courage and act wisely if we want our world to thrive.Trade Review"It is impossible to get to the heart of those classics unless you live them, and [Easwaran] did live them. My admiration of the man and his works is boundless." - H U S T O N S M I T H, author of The World's Religions (Reviewing Easwaran's translation, The Bhagavad Gita)Table of ContentsPreface: The Wisdom of India Introduction 1. The War Within 2. The Search for Reality 3. The Higher and Lower Mind 4. The Causes of Delusion 5. Yoga as the Way Forward 6. Meditation 7. Yoga in Daily Life 8. Yoga in Work and Relationships 9. Healing the Unconscious 10. Death and the Continuity of Life 11. Spiritual Evolution 12. Faith and Incarnation 13. The End of Sorrow: Portraits of the Illumined Person Further Reading Glossary Favorite Verses from the Gita Index
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Everyman The Art of War
Book SynopsisWritten over two thousand years ago, The Art of War contains penetrating insights into the nature of power, inter-state rivalry, realpolitik and military success, relevant to any age. It was first translated into English in the early 20th century. Sun Tzu's short lines of argument and pithy aphorisms are highly accessible to modern readers, and his text has almost achieved cult status. He is quoted everywhere 'from divorce courts to Facebook', and has something to offer anyone interested in honing leadership skills and achieving in any competitive environment 'from the boardroom to the bedroom'. Sun Tzu's advice is shrewd and pragmatic - he does not glory in slaughter and prefers to win battles off the battlefield if possible; he is a strong supporter of the use of deception, of varying your shots and above all, of doing your research: knowing your enemy is key; but of little use if you do not also 'know yourself'.Features a brilliant new translation by Peter Harris. The iconic text in its original 13 short chapters printed unencumbered by notesThe text repeated, this time interspersed with selected extracts from the canon of traditional Chinese commentators who have explained Sun Tzu's wisdom over the centuries; each chapter ending with an explanatory note from Peter HarrisTrade Review... this book has become a must-read for modern military strategists (even though Sun Tzu wrote about chariots rather than drones), the KGB and also for business thinkers who have applied his martial philosophy to the war that is modern capitalism. * Guardian *..this book is a guide to winning wars, avidly studied by America's armed forces as it was by Mao. . ..American strategists often read the “Art of War” to understand China not as an alluring and persuasive wielder of soft power, but as a potential enemy. * Economist *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Virtue of Agency
Book SynopsisSôphrosunê (self-discipline) is the often-forgotten sibling of justice, wisdom, courage, and piety in discussions of canonical Greek virtues. Christopher Moore shows that during the classical period it was the object of significant debate--about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. By interpreting sôphrosunê as a commitment to norm-following, we see that these pointed discussions of the virtue, previously ignored as parodic moralizing or expressions of political propaganda, are in fact concerned with the ideal of human agency. These discussions query the way we become fully responsible for our actions. Greek thinking about sôphrosunê becomes thinking about self-constitution, our crucial capacity to act on the general reasons that we come to identify with as our own.This perspective explains sôphrosunê''s inclusion in Plato''s canon of virtues, and before that its frequent appearance in funerary inscriptions, elegiac poetry, tragic drama, and historiography.Table of ContentsSelected Abbreviations and Editions 1. Debating a virtue 2. The early history of sôphrosunê 3. Heraclitus, self-knowledge, and the greatest virtue 4. Tragic sôphrosunê in two plays of Euripides 5. The late fifth century 6. The figure of Socrates 7. Xenophon on sôphrosunê and enkrateia 8. Plato 1 - sôphrosunê and the capacity for action 9. Plato 2 - two formulations of agency 10. Plato 3 - sôphrosunê with wisdom in two late dialogues 11. Aristotle and the later fourth century 12. Pythagorean sôphrosunê 13. Sôphrosunê for later Greek women Epilogue: Translating an ancient virtue for modern times Epigraphical Appendix Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Plato Opera Vol. II
Book Synopsis(Par., Phil., Symp., Phdr.; Alc. I, II, Hipp., Am.) Edited by J. Burnet.
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume 51
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. ''Have you seen the latest OSAP?'' is what scholars of ancient philosophy say to each other when they meet in corridors or on coffee breaks. Whether you work on Plato or Aristotle, on Presocratics or sophists, on Stoics, Epicureans, or Sceptics, on Roman philosophers or Greek Neoplatonists, you are liable to find OSAP articles now dominant in the bibliography of much serious published work in your particular subject: not safe to miss.- Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University OSAP was founded to provide a place for long pieces on major issues in ancient philosophy. In the years since, it has fulfilled this role with great success, over and over again publishing groundbreaking papers on what seemed to be familiar topics and otheTable of ContentsGÁBOR BETEGH: Archelaus on Cosmogony and the Origins of Social Institutions WHITNEY SCHWAB: Understanding episteme? in Plato's Republic SARAH BROADIE: The Knowledge Unacknowledged in the Theaetetus JOSEPH KARBOWSKI: Justification 'by Argument' in Aristotle's Natural Science JOHN M. COOPER: Aristotelian Infinites DANIEL NOLAN: Stoic Trichotomies CHRISTOPHER ISAAC NOBLE: Plotinus' Unaffectable Soul NICHOLAS DENYER: The Seventh Letter: A Discussion of Myles Burnyeat and Michael Frede, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter Index Locorum
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Oxford University Press, USA Oxford Studies Ancient Philosophy 53 Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.Table of Contents1: David Sedley: Zenonian Strategies 2: Ralph Wedgwood: The Coherence of Thrasymachus 3: Gail Fine: Plato on the Grades of Perception: Theaetetus 184-186 and the Phaedo 4: Christopher C. Raymond: Shame and Virtue in Aristotle 5: Marko Malink: Aristotle on Principles as Elements 6: Mauro Bonazzi: Plato Systematized: Doing Philosophy in the Imperial Schools. A Discussion of J. A. Stover (ed.), A New Work by Apuleius: The Lost Third Book of the De Platone
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Oxford University Press Possibility of Inquiry
Book SynopsisGail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy. Meno''s Paradox, which is first formulated in Plato''s Meno, challenges the very possibility of inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew; he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an untutored slave about a geometry problem, whose solution the slave is able to discover through inquiry. Hence, contrary to the paradox, inquiry is possible after all. Plato is not the only philosopher to grapple with Meno''s Paradox: so too do Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus. How do their various replies compare with one another, and with Plato''s? How good are any of their replies? In a fascinating fragment preserved in Damascius'' Commentary on the Phaedo, Plutarch briefly considers these questions (though for obvious chronological reasons he doesn''t discuss Sextus). But Fine''s book is the first full-length systematic treatment of the paradox and responses to it. Among the topics discussed are the nature of knowledge; how knowledge differs from mere true belief; the nature of inquiry; varieties of innatism; concepts and meaning; the scope and limits of experience. The Possibility of Inquiry will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient epistemology, in ancient philosophy, or in epistemology.Trade ReviewGail Fine's excellent book is a rich and sophisticated examination of an ancient epistemological puzzle first stated in Plato's Meno . . . This book is an example of philosophically informed scholarship at its very best. It is essential reading for anyone with interests in any aspect of ancient epistemology. * David Bronstein, Mind *Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I: Plato's Meno 2: The Origins of the Problem 3: Meno's Questions and Socrates' Dilemma 4: Socrates' Three-Stage Reply: the First and Second Stages 5: The Third Stage: the Second Statement of The Theory of Recollection Part II: Aristotle and After 6: Aristotelian Inquiry 7: Epicurean Inquiry 8: Stoic Inquiry 9: Plutarch's Account 10: Sceptical inquiry: Sextus and the Stoics 11: Sceptical Inquiry: Sextus and the Epicureans Bibliography Index Locorum Index Nominum General Index
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume 64
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Oxford University Press Greek Thought
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Oxford University Press Ciceros Academici Libri and Lucullus
Book SynopsisCicero''s so-called Academica is a significant text for European cultural and intellectual history: as a substantial and self-contained body of evidence for one of the two varieties of scepticism in antiquity, as evidence for Stoic thought presented on its own terms and in interaction with objections, as a key text in a broader tradition which is devoted to the possibility of knowledge arising from perceptual experience, and as evidence for the fate of Plato''s Academy in its final phase as a functioning school. This volume is the first detailed commentary on this set of texts since Reid''s, published in 1885. It takes full account of the scholarly debate to date and seeks to elucidate the dialogues and fragmentary remains from a philosophical, historical, literary, and linguistic point of view.Trade ReviewWhile there is no direct course through the Academica, no Cynosura to guide readers out at sea, Reinhardt is the expert and charitable guide we have long needed for the winding path by the Septemtriones. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Translations Letters Ac. 1 Fragments Luc. Commentary Ac. 1 Fragments Luc. Appendices Appendix 1: Non-Ciceronian Texts on the Sceptical Academy Appendix 2: Numenius on the Academy
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Oxford University Press Cicero Political Philosophy Founders of Modern
Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero''s treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC) is well known as a major player in the turbulent politics of the last three decades of the Roman Republic. But he was a political thinker, too, influential for many centuries in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition. His theoretical writings stand as the first surviving attempt to articulate a philosophical rationale for republicanism. They were not written in isolation either from the stances he took in his political actions and political oratory of the period, or from his discussions of immediate political issues or questions of character or behaviour in his voluminous correspondence with friends and acquaintances. In this book, Malcolm Schofield situates the intimate interrelationships between Cicero''s writings in all these modes within the historical context of a fracturing Roman political order. It exhibits the continuing attractions of Cicero''s scheme of republican values, as well as some of its limitations as a response to the crisis that was engulfing Rome.Trade ReviewCicero: Political Philosophy, with its densely yet subtly inter-connected chapters, excellent bibliography, and phenomenal choice of quotations from the largest body of work of a single author to come down to us from Graeco-Roman antiquity, is no exception in this and exceptional in its field. * Gavin M. Stewart, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice *Malcolm Schofield has now given us the ideal introduction to Cicero's political thought ... The book throughout is marked by very thoughtful attention to the needs of the non-specialist reader.... Schofield has managed to produce a concise and judicious guide to all the main issues and debates. It is far more than just a clear summary, though. It is, in the best sense, a critical introduction, one that engages as well as informs the reader, and it now takes its place as the best modern account of its kind. * Jeremy Mynott, Classics for All *To conclude, I would like to stress the importance of his method. S. uses historical context not only to elucidate Cicero's political philosophy, but also to explain its limits. S. pushes the quest for arguments as far as possible; but he confesses sometimes running into walls. * RENÉ DE NICOLAY, Princeton University, THE CLASSICAL REVIEW *Cicero is detailed, challenging, and fascinating, offering a thorough account of Cicero's political thought that is both situated within his particular and disruptive historical context and in constant dialogue with modern political theory ... This is a masterful and lively study, which will be of value to all those with an interest in ancient political philosophy, and, indeed, Republican politics and history. * Jenny Bryan, Greece & Rome *I would recommend this book immediately as the first stop for anyone looking for a clear and accessible account of Cicero's political philosophy. * Sean McConnell, University of Otago, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of Contents1: Introduction: contexts 2: Liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty 3: Government 4: Cosmopolitanism, imperialism, and the idea of law 5: Republican virtues 6: Republican decision-making 7: Epilogue: philosophical debate and normative theory Bibliography Index of passages General index
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Pennsylvania State University Press Feminist Interpretations of Plato ReReading the
Book SynopsisThe essays in this anthology explore the full spectrum of Plato's philosopy and represent a variety of perspectives in feminist criticism. The essays include discussions of Plato's social and political theory, the place of women in the state and feminism within Plato's metaphysics and epistemology.Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I Plato on Women1. Gregory Vlastos/Was Plato a Feminist?2. Janet Farrell Smith/Plato, Irony, and Equality3. Monique Canto/The Politics of Women's Bodies: Reflections on Plato (translated by Arthur Goldhammer)4. Arlene W. Saxonhouse/The Philosopher and the Female in the Political Thought of Plato5. Elizabeth Spelman/Hairy Cobblers and Philosopher-Queens6. Natalie Harris Bluestone/Why Women Cannot Rule: Sexism in Plato ScholarshipPart II Plato and the Feminine7. Page duBois/The Platonic Appropriation of Reproduction8. Wendy Brown/"Supposing Truth Were A Women. . .": Plato's Subversion of Masculine Discourse9. Luce Irigaray/Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato's Symposium, Diotima's Speech (translated by Eleanor H. Kuykendall)10. Andrea Nye/Irigaray and Diotima at Plato's Symposium11. Cynthia Hampton/Overcoming Dualism: The Importance of the Intermediate in Plato's Philebus12. Nancy Tuana and William Cowling/The Presence and Absence of the Feminine in Plato's PhilosophySelect BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophy of Early Christianity
Book SynopsisThis new edition introduces the reader to the philosophy of early Christianity in the second to fourth centuries AD, and contextualizes the philosophical contributions of early Christians in the framework of the ancient philosophical debates.It examines the first attempts of Christian thinkers to engage with issues such as questions of cosmogony and first principles, freedom of choice, concept formation, and the bodyâsoul relation, as well as later questions like the status of the divine persons of the Trinity. It also aims to show that the philosophy of early Christianity is part of ancient philosophy as a distinct school of thought, being in constant dialogue with the ancient philosophical schools, such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism and Scepticism. This book examines in detail the philosophical views of Christian thinkers such as Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Basil, and Gregory of Nyssa, and sheds light in the distinct ways they conceptualized traditional philosophical issues and made some intriguing contributions. The bookâs core chapters survey the central philosophical concerns of the early Christian thinkers and examines their contributions. These range across natural philosophy, metaphysics, logic and epistemology, psychology, and ethics, and include such questions as how the world came into being, how God relates to the world, the status of matter, how we can gain knowledge, in what sense humans have freedom of choice, what the nature of soul is and how it relates to the body, and how we can attain happiness and salvation. This revised edition takes into account the recent developments in the area of later ancient philosophy, especially in the philosophy of Early Christianity, and integrates them in the relevant chapters, some of which are now heavily expanded. The Philosophy of Early Christianity remains a crucial introduction to the subject for undergraduate and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy and early Christianity, across the disciplines of classics, history, and theology.Trade Review"Karamanolis has breathed new life into the study of the role of philosophy in Early Christianity, and it is to be hoped that this work will strengthen the momentum towards new scholarship, among scholars working on Ancient Philosophy as well, that also revisits the hardest questions." - RhizomataTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1, The Christian Conception of Philosophy and Christian Philosophical Methodology; Chapter 2, Physics and Metaphysics: First Principles and The Question of Cosmogony; Chapter 3, Logic and Epistemology; Chapter 4, Free Will and Divine Providence; Chapter 5, Psychology: The Soul and Its Relation to The Body; Chapter 6, Ethics and Politics; Conclusion; Appendix, The Protagonists; Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis New Essays on Aristotleâs Organon
Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotleâs Organon.The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotleâs logical works: Categories, De Interpretatione, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistical Refutations. This extremely influential collection gave Aristotle the reputation of being the founder of logic and has helped shaped the development of logic for over two millennia. The chapters in this volume cover topics pertaining to each of the six works traditionally included in the Organon as well as its manuscript tradition. In addition, a comprehensive introduction by the editors discusses Aristotle and logic, the composition and order of the Organon, and the authenticity, title, and chronology of the treatises that make up these works. As an appendix, the volume includes a new critical edition of the GrTable of ContentsAn Introduction to Aristotle’s Organon - António Pedro Mesquita and Ricardo Santos; 1. Aristotle’s Categories: Ontology without Hylomorphism? - Marco Zingano; 2. Are the Same Thoughts Shared by All People? - Katerina Ierodiakonou; 3. De Interpretatione 3 on Isolated Verbs - Francesco Ademollo; 4. Truth and Formal Validity in the Prior Analytics - Paolo Crivelli; 5. Aristotle on Negative Terms and Obversion - Ricardo Santos; 6. Proof and Demonstration: the Meaning of δεικνύναι in the Posterior Analytics - Pierre-Marie Morel; 7. Causal Explanation and Demonstration in Posterior Analytics II 11 - Pierre Pellegrin; 8. Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration: A Reading of Posterior Analytics II 17-18 - David Bronstein and Breno Zuppolini; 9. Linguistic Theory and Dialectical Rules in the Topics - Colin Guthrie King; 10. A Trouble-Maker for Translators: the Aristotelian Phrase τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι - Hermann Weidemann; 11. How Do Differentiae Fit into Aristotle’s System of Predicables? - António Pedro Mesquita; 12. Misplaced Trust and Blind Reasoning: Aristotle on the Fallacy of Equivocation - Paolo Fait; 13. On the Fallacy of Accident in Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations - Paulo Fernando Tadeu Ferreira; 14. ‘Those Searching for Gold Dig up a Lot of Earth’ – On Contamination and Insertion in the Early Manuscript Tradition of the Organon: The Case of the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper; Appendix 1: Discussion of (Putative) Insertions in the Archetype for the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper; Appendix 2: The Prior and Posterior Analytics - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper; Appendix 3: Aristotelis Topica 8. New Critical Edition of the Eighth Book of Aristotle’s Topics - Pieter Sjoerd Hasper.
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Taylor & Francis The Presocratic Philosophers
Book SynopsisThe Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought.Table of ContentsPreface. Preface to the Revised Edition. Note to Citations. PROLOGUE. 1. The Springs of Reason 2. Anaximander on Nature 3. Science and Speculation 4. The Natural Philosophy of Heraclitus 5. The Divine Philosophy of Xenophanes 6. Pythagoras and the Soul 7. The Moral Law 8. The Principles of Human Knowledge THE SERPENT. 9. Parmenides and the Objects of Inquiry 10. Being and Becoming 11. Stability and Change 12. Zeno: Paradox and Plurality 13. Zeno: Paradox and Progression 14. The Ports of Knowledge Closed PARADISE REGAINED. 15. The Ionian Revival 16. Anaxagoras and the Nature of Stuffs 17. The Corpuscularian Hypothesis 18. Philolaus and the Formal Cause 19. The Logic of Locomotion 20. The Neo-Ionian World Picture 21. The Sophists 22. De Anima 23. Conduct Unbecoming 24. The Bounds of Knowledge EPILOGUE. 25. The Last of the Line Appendix A Sources. Appendix B Chronology. Notes. Bibliography (revised 1981). Indexes. Concordance.
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Cambridge University Press Apology of Socrates
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Cambridge University Press The Hellenistic Philosophers Volume I
Book SynopsisVolume 1 presents the texts in new translations by the authors, and these are accompanied by a philosophical and historical commentary designed for use by all readers, including those with no background in the classical world. With its glossary and indexes, this volume can stand alone as an independent tool of study.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I. Early Pyrrhonism; Part II. Epicureanism; Section 1. Physics; Section 2. Epistemology; Section 3. Ethics; Part III. Stoicism; Section 4. Ontology; Section 5. Logic and Semantics; Section 6. Epistemology: Stoics and Academics; Section 7. Physics; Section 8. Ethics; Part IV. The Academics; Part V. The Pyrrhonist Revival; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Book SynopsisPlotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.Trade Review'The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus consists of a series of chapters on different themes written by various scholars, and brought together with great skill to form a coherent whole … It will inevitably go to the top of every reading list on the philosophy of Late Antiquity.' Greece and RomeTable of ContentsIntroduction Lloyd P. Gerson; 1. Plotinus: the Platonic tradition and the foundation of Neoplatonism Maria Luisa Gatti; 2. Plotinus's metaphysics of the One John Bussanich; 3. The hierarchical ordering of reality in Plotinus Dominic J. O'Meara; 4. On soul and intellect Henry J. Blumenthal; 5. Essence and existence in the Enneads Kevin Corrigan; 6. Plotinus on the nature of physical reality Michael F. Wagner; 7. Plotinus on matter and evil Denis O'Brien; 8. Eternity and time Andrew Smith; 9. Cognition and its object Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson; 10. Self-knowledge and subjectivity in the Enneads Sara Rappe; 11. Plotinus: body and soul Stephen R. L. Clark; 12. Human freedom in the thought of Plotinus Georges Leroux; 13. An ethic for the Late Antique sage John M. Dillon; 14. Plotinus and language Frederic M. Schroeder; 15. Plotinus and later Platonic philosophers on the causality of the first principle Cristina D'Ancona Costa; 16. Plotinus and Christian philosophy John Rist.
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Harvard University Press Early Greek Philosophy Volume I
Book SynopsisVolume I of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents the editors' preface and introductory notes along with essential reference materials including abbreviations, bibliography, concordances, indexes, and glossary.Trade ReviewIn brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship…The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation…More than that, their edition effectively supersedes Hermann Diels and Walter Kranz’s Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, which has long held sway as the standard edition of the Presocratics, but it only does so because Laks and Most have respectfully taken Diels-Kranz as their model…Laks and Most have set such a high standard with this work that it is hard to imagine that we will see a better general collection on early Greek philosophy in our lifetimes…Laks and Most’s philological acumen, judiciousness as editors, and excellence as translators is evident on every page. -- John Palmer * Arion *
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Harvard University Press Early Greek Philosophy Volume II
Book SynopsisVolume II of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents preliminary chapters on ancient doxography, the cosmological and moral background, and includes the early Ionian thinkers Pherecydes, Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.Trade ReviewIn brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Library’s nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, don’t hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship…The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation…More than that, their edition effectively supersedes Hermann Diels and Walter Kranz’s Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, which has long held sway as the standard edition of the Presocratics, but it only does so because Laks and Most have respectfully taken Diels-Kranz as their model…Laks and Most have set such a high standard with this work that it is hard to imagine that we will see a better general collection on early Greek philosophy in our lifetimes…Laks and Most’s philological acumen, judiciousness as editors, and excellence as translators is evident on every page. -- John Palmer * Arion *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Articles on Aristotle
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Cambridge University Press Ciceros De Officiis
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Cambridge University Press The Euclidean Programme
Book SynopsisThis Element shows that Euclidean Programme (EP) embodies a traditional sort of epistemological foundationalism about mathematics. This Element is devoted to an examination of the EP. The authors propose a rational reconstruction of the EP's key principles, superior to the axiomatic method.
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Cambridge University Press Platos Charmides
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Cambridge University Press Platos Moral Realism
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to situate Plato's ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Plato's metaphysics helps explain his politics and his theological doctrines.
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