Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Books
Cambridge University Press Explanation and Teleology in Aristotles Science of Nature
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Cambridge University Press The Platonic Alcibiades I
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Plotinus on Self
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Cambridge University Press An Essay on Anaxagoras
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Herophilus The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria
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Cambridge University Press The Problem of Evil in Plotinus
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Cambridge University Press Hellenistic Philosophers Volume 2 Volume 2 Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography
Book SynopsisPresents the same texts (with additional passages) as Volume 1. Includes detailed notes on the more difficult texts, and a large annotated bibliography.Trade Review'… the Long and Sedley collection The Hellenistic Philosophers, now complete with the second volume … which includes the Greek and Latin texts briefly annotated and a huge bibliographie raisonnee of 655 items … will shape the study of ancient philosophy for at least the next generation. I cannot imagine what reader of Phronesis would not find life without it inconceivable.' PhronesisTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Part I. Early Pyrrhonism: 1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue; 2. Timon's polemics; Part II. Epicureanism: 3. Physics; 4. Epistemology; 5. Ethics; Part III. Stoicism: 6. The philosophical curriculum; 7. Ontology logic and semantics; 8. Epistemology (stoics and academics); 9. Physics; 10. Ethics; Part IV. The Academics: 11. Methodology; 12. Living without opinions; 13. Contributions to philosophical debates; 14. The Pyrrhonist revival; 15. Why to suspend judgement; 16. How to suspend judgement; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Modes of Scepticism Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations
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Cambridge University Press The Sophistic Movement
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of an exciting and historically crucial intellectual movement. At the centre of their teaching was a form of relativism, most famously expressed by Protagoras as 'Man is the measure of all things', and which they developed in a wide range of views - on knowledge and argument, virtue, government, society, and the gods. On all these subjects the Sophists did far more than simply provoke Plato to thought. Their contributions were substantial and serious; they inaugurated the debate on many central philosophical questions and decisively shifted the focus of philosophical attention from the cosmos tTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Towards a history of interpretations of the sophistic movement; 3. The sophists as a social phenomenon; 4. The meaning of the term sophist; 5. The individual sophists; 6. Dialectic, antilogic and eristic; 7. The theory of language; 8. The doctrine of logos in literature and rhetoric; 9. Sophistic relativism; 10. The nomos-physis controversy; 11. Can virtue be taught?; 12. The theory of society; 13. Religion and the gods; 14. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Art and Thought of Heraclitus A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary
Book SynopsisBehind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of multiple meaning, and a vision of human life and death within the larger order of nature. The fragments are presented here in a readable order; translation and commentary aim to make accessible the power and originality of a systematic thinker and a great master of artistic prose. The commentary locates Heraclitus within the tradition of early Greek thought, but stresses the importance of his ideas for topical theories of language, literature and philosophy.
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Cambridge University Press Stoic Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Plotinus The Road to Reality
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy Volume 1 The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans
Book SynopsisAll volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.Table of ContentsPreface; Notes on the sources; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction and summary; 2. The beginnings of philosophy in Greece; 3. The Milesians; 4. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans; 5. Alcmaeon; 6. Xenophanes; 7. Heraclitus; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus Volume II Volume 2 the Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus
Book SynopsisAll volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.Table of ContentsPreface; Note on the sources; List of abbreviations; 1. The eleatics; 2. Ionians and eleatics: the rise and fall of monism; 3. Empedocles; 4. Anaxagoras; 5. Archelaus; 6. Philosophy in the second half of the fifth century; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Galen On Diseases and Symptoms
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Cambridge University Press Plato and Theodoret
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Issues in Aristotles Biology
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy v4 Volume 4 Plato The Man and His Dialogues Earlier Period Plato The Man His Dialogues Earlier Period
Book SynopsisThe fourth volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought deals exclusively with Plato. Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume. Volume IV therefore offers a general introduction to his life and writings, and covers the so-called 'early' and 'middle' periods of his philosophical development (up to and including the Republic).Table of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Life of Plato and philosophical influences; 3. The dialogues; 4. Early socratic dialogues; 5. Protagoras, meno, euthydemus, gorgias, menexenus; 6. Phaedo, symposium, phaedrus; 7. The republic; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy
Book SynopsisAll volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.Table of Contents1. Cratylus; 2. Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Politicus; 3. Philebus; 4. Timaeus and Critias; 5. Laws; 6. Doubtful and spurious dialogues; 7. Letters; 8. Plato's 'Unwritten' metaphysics; 8. Postcript to Plato; 9. Plato's associates; Bibliography; Indexes.
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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 Metaphysics and Method in Platos Statesman
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Cambridge University Press Psychology
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Cambridge University Press Language 3 Companions to Ancient Thought Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Psychology 2 Companions to Ancient Thought Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press The Virtue of Aristotles Ethics
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Cambridge University Press The Toils of Scepticism
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Cambridge University Press A History of Greek Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Methods and Problems in Greek Science Selected Papers
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Cambridge University Press Passions and Perceptions
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Cambridge University Press Philolaus of Croton Pythagorean and Presocratic
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Cambridge University Press Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Plato and the Hero
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle Cambridge
Book SynopsisAristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition of the central philosophical concerns in his work. Approaches and methods vary and the volume editor has not imposed any single interpretation, but has rather allowed legitimate differences of interpretation to stand. An introductory chapter provides an account of Aristotle's life, and then guides the reader through the complex subject of what Aristotle actually wrote as a basis for characterising his philosophical development. Subsequent chapters cover Aristotle's writings on logic, metaphysics, science, psychology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and poetics. It is a basic assumption of the Companion that its readers will not know Greek.Trade Review"This lively collection serves its purpose well." Ethics"...a clear, concise, well organized, comprehensive treatment of Aristotle's philosophy." Howard J. Curzer, Canadian Philosophical Review"The book is above all an inspring and informative guide for philosophically ambitious students of Aristotle, but even a more advanced reader finds much of interest and pleasure in it." Bryn Mawr Classical Review""The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle is a must read for any Aristotelian scholar, but it is also beneficial to a reader with little knowledge of ancient thought. This is a great value for anyone's library." Steve W. Lamke, The Theological EducatorTable of ContentsIntroduction: Aristotle's writings; 1. Life and work Jonathan Barnes; 2. Logic Robin Smith; 3. Metaphysics Jonathan Barnes; 4. Philosophy of science R. J. Hankinson; 5. Science R. J. Hankinson; 6. Psychology Stephen Everson; 7. Ethics D. S. Hutchinson; 8. Politics C. C. W. Taylor; 9. Rhetoric and poetics Jonathan Barnes.
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Cambridge University Press The Stoics on Ambiguity
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with the Presocratics, a group whose influence has been incalculable. These thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistemology, psychology, rhetoric and relativism, justice, and poetics.Trade Review"This is an indispensable aid for both teacher and student in any course devoted to the study of the Presocratics." Review of Metaphysics"[A] fresh and wide-ranging survey of Presocratic philosophers..." Reference & Research Book News"The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy (ccegp) is recommended especially to undergraduates interested in any aspect of philosophy, graduate students specializing in ancient philosophy, and professional scholars interested in the history of philosophy." Monte Ransome Johnson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"This Companion does an excellent job of meeting its impossible challenge to be all things to all readers." Phoenix"This book is a uniformly excellent collection of essays on early Greek philosophy written by an impressive international array of scholarly contributors. This book will be a good resource for teachers when preparing lectures, an excellent supplemental text in a history of classical philosophy course and would benefit a graduate seminar as well." Religious Studies Review"The volume is, in overall terms, very succesful, with the chapter on sources by Mansfeld and the Bibliography singled out as outstanding, and likely to prove to be of particular interest and usefulness for a good time into the future." Ancient PhilosophyTable of Contents1. The scope of early Greek philosophy A. A. Long; 2. Sources Jaap Mansfeld; 3. The beginnings of cosmology Keimpe Algra; 4. The Pythagorean tradition Carl A. Huffman; 5. Heraclitus Edward Hussey; 6. Parmenides and Melissus David Sedley; 7. Zeno Richard D. McKirahan Jr; 8. Empedocles and Anaxagoras: responses to Parmenides Daniel W. Graham; 9. The atomists C. C. W. Taylor; 10. Rational theology Sarah Broadie; 11. Early interest in knowledge J. H. Lesher; 12. Soul, sensation, and thought André Laks; 13. Culpability, responsibility, cause: philosophy, historiography and medicine in the fifth century Mario Vegetti; 14. Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias Paul Woodruff; 15. Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice Fernanda DeCleva Caizzi; 16. The poetics of early Greek philosophy Glenn W. Most.
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Cambridge University Press Justice and Generosity
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Cambridge University Press Seneca Selected Letters
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Cambridge University Press Substance and Separation in Aristotle
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Cambridge University Press Recollection and Experience
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Cambridge University Press Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics
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Cambridge University Press Stoic Studies
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Cambridge University Press Genres in Dialogue
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Cambridge University Press Platos Republic
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Cambridge University Press Augustine Confessions Books IIV Cambridge Greek
Book SynopsisAugustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century AD, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books IâIV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, school days, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This edition, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human.Trade Review"...Clark's notes concentrate upon the subtle nuances and peculiarities of Augustine's use of language, focusing upon the significant rhetorical feature of the text. Highly recommended." The Reader's Review"It is an excellent addition to the resources available for students and teachers of the Confessions and of Christian Latin generally." John C. Cavadini, Anglican Theological ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. The Confessions in Augustine's life; 2. Genre and style; 3. Philosophy and theology; 4. Text and commentary; Avgvstini Confessionvm LibriI I–IV; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics
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