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Epicurus on the Self
Häftad, 2020
735 kr
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Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum, On Nature XXV. The aim of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Epicurus’ moral psychology, ethics and of its robust …
Meteorology of Posidonius
Av J.J. Hall
Inbunden, 2023
2513 kr
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This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.The book examines …
Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics
Selected Essays by Mario Mignucci
Av Andrea Falcon, Pierdaniele Giaretta
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Collected here for the first time are sixteen of his most important essays on Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics. These essays show a …
Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics. This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the …
Taurus of Beirut
The Other Side of Middle Platonism
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation. Through close examination of the extant witnesses, Petrucci gives a new account of Middle Platonism based on a fresh approach to …
Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous
Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity
Av Mark Wildish
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. In addition to reviewing and drawing on earlier approaches it explores the range of signs and meanings for which Horapollo is interested in …
Theology of the Epinomis
Av Vera Calchi
Inbunden, 2022
2134 kr
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This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine better suited to the political-religious imperatives of the post-Classical age.The Epinomis is the ‘appendix’ to Plato’s Laws likely written by Plato’s …
Theology of the Epinomis
Av Vera Calchi
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine better suited to the political-religious imperatives of the post-Classical age.The Epinomis is the ‘appendix’ to Plato’s Laws likely written by Plato’s …
Thales the Measurer
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity.Thales is most commonly associated with the claim that ‘everything is water’, but closer …
Thales the Measurer
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity.Thales is most commonly associated with the claim that ‘everything is water’, but closer …
Flow and Flux in Plato's Philosophy
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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In this bold new study, Andrew J. Mason seeks both to shed light on the key issue of flux in Plato’s work, and to show that there is also in Plato a notion of flow that needs to be distinguished from flux. Mason brings out the importance of this hitherto neglected distinction, and proposes on its …
Forms, Souls, and Embryos
Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction
Häftad, 2019
735 kr
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Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s …
Mental Conflict
Av A. W. Price
Inbunden, 1994
2513 kr
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As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of …
Ancient Concepts of Philosophy
Häftad, 1993
648 kr
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For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one's life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.' Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the context of the most recent thinking about the nature and value of philosophy, and the author questions how …
Mental Conflict
Av A. W. Price
Häftad, 1994
648 kr
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As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of …
Birth of Rhetoric
Gorgias, Plato and their Successors
Av Robert Wardy
Häftad, 1998
745 kr
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What is rhetoric?Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. Rhetoric is for some a distinctive mode of communication; for …
Saving the City
Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms
Inbunden, 1998
2513 kr
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Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what …
Saving the City
Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms
Häftad, 2012
910 kr
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Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what …
Stoic Doctrine of Providence
A Study of its Development and of Some of its Major Issues
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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The Stoic Doctrine of Providence attempts to reconstruct the Stoic doctrine of providence (as argued for in ancient texts now lost) and explain its many fascinating philosophical issues.Examining issues such as the compatibility between good and evil, and how a provident god can serve as model of …
Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics
Selected Essays by Mario Mignucci
Av Andrea Falcon, Pierdaniele Giaretta
Häftad, 2021
706 kr
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The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Collected here for the first time are sixteen of his most important essays on Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics. These essays show a …
Gorgias's Thought
An Epistemological Reading
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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Gorgias’s Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgias’s epistemological thought and provides a new perspective on Gorgias’s thought more broadly.The book aims to undermine the common idea that Gorgias is either an orator uncommitted to …
Gorgias's Thought
An Epistemological Reading
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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Gorgias’s Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgias’s epistemological thought and provides a new perspective on Gorgias’s thought more broadly.The book aims to undermine the common idea that Gorgias is either an orator uncommitted to …
Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics. This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the …
Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus
In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm
Inbunden, 2023
2513 kr
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This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus’ wider cosmological project. Most studies of perception in the Timaeus focus on a few narrow passages on …
Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus
In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus’ wider cosmological project. Most studies of perception in the Timaeus focus on a few narrow passages on …
Meteorology of Posidonius
Av J.J. Hall
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.The book examines …
Aristotle on the Continuum in Presocratic Thought
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle’s perspective.The concept of continuity plays a fundamental role in …
Speusippus
A Forgotten Voice of Platonism
Häftad, 2026
696 kr
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This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus’ philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle.The book develops a new methodology for understanding the evidence concerning authors of the Early Academy, …
Speusippus
A Forgotten Voice of Platonism
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus’ philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle.The book develops a new methodology for understanding the evidence concerning authors of the Early Academy, …
Stoic Doctrine of Providence
A Study of its Development and of Some of its Major Issues
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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The Stoic Doctrine of Providence attempts to reconstruct the Stoic doctrine of providence (as argued for in ancient texts now lost) and explain its many fascinating philosophical issues.Examining issues such as the compatibility between good and evil, and how a provident god can serve as model of …
