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Cambridge University Press Pride Politics and Humility in Augustines City of God
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Cambridge University Press The Cosmological Doctors of Classical Greece
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Cambridge University Press Providence and Narrative in the Theology of John Chrysostom
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Cambridge University Press Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought
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Cambridge University Press Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
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Cambridge University Press Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World
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Cambridge University Press Platos Charmides
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Cambridge University Press Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy
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Cambridge University Press Disagreement
Book SynopsisThis Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types of disagreement-motivated skepticism in ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and general epistemology. In each case, it favors suspension of judgment as the seemingly appropriate response to the realization of disagreement. One main line of argument pursued in the Element is that, since in real-life disputes we have limited or inaccurate information about both our own epistemic standing and the epistemic standing of our dissenters, personal information and self-trust can rarely function as symmetry breakers in favor of our own views.
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Cambridge University Press A Less Familiar Plato
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Cambridge University Press Platos Moral Realism
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Cambridge University Press Plato on Comedy and Tragedy
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Cambridge University Press Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Galen
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Cambridge University Press The Body Politic in Roman Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Reconstructing Empedocles Thought
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Cambridge University Press Hylomorphism
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Cambridge University Press The Stoic Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press The Architecture of the Science of Living Beings
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Cambridge University Press Epicurean Justice
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Cambridge University Press Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press Lucrezia Marinella
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Cambridge University Press Porphyrys Commentary on Ptolemys Harmonics
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Cambridge University Press The Euclidean Programme
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Cambridge University Press Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World
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Cambridge University Press Monotheism and Paradise
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Cambridge University Press Suspension of Belief
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Cambridge University Press Stoic Eros
Book SynopsisThis Element shows the Stoics' wider theoretical commitments in ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, and psychology. It concludes with an assessment of how the Stoic erotic ideal fares in relation to our intuitions about the non-egoistic and particularized nature of love.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The two basic forms of erôs; 3. The perception of beauty; 4. Socratic antecedents for the stoic theory of erôs; 5. Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press Platos Unwritten Doctrines
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Cambridge University Press Platonic Autonomy
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Cambridge University Press Anonymus Iamblichi
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Cambridge University Press Disagreement
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Cambridge University Press The Ladder of the Sciences in Late Antique Platonism
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Cambridge University Press Ciceros Tusculan Disputations
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Cambridge University Press Hegel on the Family Form
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Cambridge University Press Politics and the Economy
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Cambridge University Press Political Meritocracy in the 21st Century
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Cambridge University Press Ideal and NonIdeal Theory
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Cambridge University Press Impaired Consciousness in Ancient Medical Texts
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Cambridge University Press Theophrastus on First Principles
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Cambridge University Press Aristippus of Cyrene Pleasure and the Present
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek mathematical texts, while several chapters confront key questions in the philosophy of science such as the relationship between evidence and explanation. The volume will spark renewed discussion about the character of ''ancient'' versus ''modern'' science, and will broaden readers'' understanding of the rich traditions of ancient Greco-Roman natural philosophy, science, medicine and mathematics.Trade Review'… this Cambridge Companion is an excellent introductory guide to many areas of science-style inquiry in classical antiquity, and it is especially useful for less well known domains like botany, music, mechanics, or meteorology. In another way its authors' diverse choices offer a snapshot of our current relationship to Greco-Roman philosophical and scientific activity: our questions about its history are open-ended, even if a high proportion of them are still about Aristotle.' Philippa Lang Isis, Isis, a Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction Liba Taub; 1. Presocratic natural philosophy Patricia Curd; 2. Reason, experience and art: the Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine James Allen; 3. Towards a science of life: the cosmological method, teleology and living things Klaus Corcilius; 4. Aristotle on the matter for birth, life and the elements David Ebrey; 5. From craft to nature: the emergence of natural teleology Thomas Johansen; 6. Creationism in antiquity David Sedley; 7. What's a plant? Laurence M. V. Totelin; 8. Meteorology Monte Ransome Johnson; 9. Ancient Greek mathematics Nathan Sidoli; 10. Astronomy in its contexts Liba Taub; 11. Ancient Greek mechanics and the mechanical hypothesis Sylvia Berryman; 12. Measuring musical beauty: instruments, reason and perception in ancient harmonics Massimo Raffa; 13. Ancient Greek historiography of science Leonid Zhmud.
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Cambridge University Press Platos Myths
Book SynopsisPlato seasons his philosophical dialogues with self-contained, fantastical narratives that we usually label his 'myths'. This volume focuses on the ways in which a number of Plato's most famous myths are interwoven with his philosophy. It also contains seventeen rare Renaissance illustrations of Platonic myths.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Anyone with a philosophical interest in Plato's myths will find Partenie's collection rewarding, and it is necessary reading for those interested in publishing on the topic. All of the articles are of high-quality, and many of them are truly excellent. The book itself is attractive and well-edited.' Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewReview of the hardback: 'Those who read [this book] in the hope of acquiring a new perspective on the arguments of particular dialogues will be richly rewarded, as the majority of the papers are highly successful in using the myths to shed new and sometimes surprising light on these arguments.' Naly Thaler, Notre Dame Philosophical Review'… illuminating … an informative study in art history.' PolisTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Catalin Partenie; 1. Plato's eschatological myths Michael Inwood; 2. Myth, punishment and politics in the Gorgias David Sedley; 3. Tale, theology and teleology in the Phaedo Gábor Betegh; 4. Fraternité, inégalité, la parole de Dieu: Plato's authoritarian myth of political legitimation Malcolm Schofield; 5. Glaucon's reward, philosophy's debt: the myth of Er G. R. F. Ferrari; 6. The charioteer and his horses: an example of Platonic myth-making Christopher Rowe; 7. The myth of the Statesman Charles H. Kahn; 8. Eikōs muthos M. F. Burnyeat; 9. Myth and eschatology in the Laws Richard Stalley; 10. Platonic myth in Renaissance iconography Elizabeth McGrath; Suggested further reading; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Composition of Platos Apology
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1933, this book examines the arguments surrounding the relation of Plato's Apology to the actual speech delivered by Socrates at his trial. Hackforth compares Plato's account to that of Xenophon, and examines Plato's possible philosophical or historical motives in the creation of his account of Socrates' defence.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. The Apology of Xenophon and the date of Plato's Apology; 3. The motive of Plato's Apology; 4. The meaning of the indictment; 5. The defence of the Platonic Socrates; 6. The second and third speeches and the total picture of Socrates; Additional notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cosmology and the Polis
Book SynopsisThe Greek polis was the first society to be monetised and the first to produce drama. This pioneering book seeks to uncover the relationship between these two momentous inventions by examining the clash between the old world of ritual and the new world of money in the tragedies of Aeschylus.Trade Review'This is an important work that redefines our conception of central categories of early Greek thought: space, time, ritual, and money. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the areas of classical Greek literature, Greek history, philosophy, and theatre.' Vayos Liapis, The Classical Journal'The five parts of this ambitious book examine the chronotopes in Homer and archaic Athenian society, money and ritual in the Dionysiac festival, the chronotopes in Aeschylus's plays … the unity of opposites in Aeschylus's theology and Heraclitus's cosmology, and the sociocultural implications of the Pythagorean way of life and Pythagorean opposites in Aeschylus's Oresteia. This brilliant study opens up new vistas on old problems.' J. Bussanich, Choice ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Social Construction of Space, Time and Cosmology: 1. Homer: the reciprocal chronotope; 2. Demeter Hymn: the aetiological chronotope; 3. From reciprocity to money; Part II. Dionysiac Festivals: 4. Royal household and public festival; 5. Aetiological chronotope and dramatic mimesis; 6. Monetisation and tragedy; Part III. Limit and the Unlimited in Confrontational Space: 7. Telos and the unlimitedness of money; 8. Suppliants; 9. Septem; 10. Confrontational space in Oresteia; 11. The unlimited in Oresteia; 12. Persians; Part IV. The Unity of Opposites: 13. Form-parallelism and the unity of opposites; 14. Aeschylus and Herakleitos; 15. From the unity of opposites to their differentiation; Part V. Cosmology of the Integrated Polis: 16. Metaphysics and the polis in Pythagoreanism; 17. Pythagoreanism in Aeschylus; 18. Household, cosmos and polis; Appendix: was there a skēnē for all the extant plays of Aeschylus?
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle De Anima With Translation Introduction and Notes
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1907, this book contains the ancient Greek text of Aristotle's De Anima, his treatise on the differing souls of living things. An English translation is provided on each facing page, and Hicks supplies a very detailed commentary on each line at the end of the book, as well as a summary of each section. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Greek philosophy and the history of classical scholarship.Table of ContentsList of authorities cited; Introduction I. Subject; Introduction II. Text; Symbols and abbreviations used in the critical notes; Greek text, critical notes and translation; Fragments of an older recension of E in Book II; Notes; Appendix. Fragments of Theophrastus on intellect; Index of subjects and proper names; Index of Greek words.
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Cambridge University Press Socrates and SelfKnowledge
Book SynopsisThis book, the first systematic study of Socrates' interest in self-knowledge, offers new interpretations of both familiar and overlooked texts on self-knowledge in ancient philosophy and will interest researchers and upper-level students of ancient philosophy, Plato, Socrates, and selfhood.Trade Review'Christopher Moore presents a new and insightful perspective on [an] old philosophical theme. He invites his readers to rethink the Socratic concept of self-knowledge and the Delphic oracle to know thyself. The upshot of his analysis is an original and important interpretation of the ancient philosophical and literary sources on these topics, especially the Platonic dialogues.' Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada, Las VegasTable of Contents1. Introduction: Socrates and the precept 'Know yourself'; 2. Charmides: on impossibility and uselessness; 3. Alcibiades: mirrors of the soul; 4. Phaedrus: less conceited than Typhon; 5. Philebus: pleasure and unification; 6. Xenophon's Memorabilia 4.2: owning yourself; 7. Conclusion: challenges and a defense; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Plato and the PostSocratic Dialogue The Return to the Philosophy of Nature
Book SynopsisPlato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work. Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction of a wider theory of Being that provides the background for the creation story of the Timaeus. This rich study, the natural successor to Kahn's earlier Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, will interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and science.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Parmenides; 2. The Theaetetus in the context of later dialogues; 3. Being and not-being in the Sophist; 4. The new dialectic: from the Phaedrus to the Philebus; 5. Philebus and the movement to cosmology; 6. Timaeus and the completion of the project: the recovery of the natural world; Epilogue: Plato as a political philosopher.
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