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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

by Marcus Aurelius

A great edition of a timeless classic. The translation is clear and the introduction is informative. A great read, for philosophers and non-philosophers alike. This Roman Stoic hands down the day-to-day principles...

Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of H

by Roger Von Oech

"You can't step in the same river twice."

"Dogs bark at what they don't understand."

"The doctor inflicts pain to cure suffering."

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative...

The Upanishads

by Anonymous & Valerie Roebuck

An "Upanisad" is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the "Principal Upanis.ads"-which comprise this volume-form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question...

Conversations of Socrates

by Xenophon & Hugh Tredennick

‘He seemed to me to be the perfect example of goodness and happiness’ After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing,...

De Anima

by Aristotle & Hugh Lawson-Tancred

The Portable Plato

by Plato

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination...

Fragments

by Heraclitus

In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book,...

Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation

by Plato & Hayden Pelliccia

Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key

dialogues, giving us a modern Plato...

The Lesser Good: The Problem of Justice in Plato and Levinas

by Wendy C. Hamblet

The Lesser Good represents a timely meditation on the incapacity of mere laws and state politics to adequately address the ethical exigencies that arise in human life. Through the philosophies of Plato and post-Holocaust...

The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

by Martha C. Nussbaum

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love...

The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue

by Jiyuan Yu

As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks,...

Plato's Socrates as Narrator: A Philosophical Muse

by Anne-Marie Schultz

This book explores five Platonic dialogues: Lysis, Charmides, Protagoras, Euthydemus, and the Republic. This book uses Socrates’ narrative commentary as its primary interpretive framework. No one has engaged...

Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century

by Kevin Corrigan

This book makes accessible, to a wide audience, the thought of Evagrius and Gregory on the soul, in the context of ancient philosophy/theology and the Cappadocians generally. Corrigan argues that in these two...

Ancient Greek Cosmogony

by Andrew Gregory

Ancient Greek Cosmogony" is the first detailed and comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 BC to 600 AD, beginning with myths concerning the...

The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A-Z Guide

by Trevor Curnow

This fascinating book contains information on over 2,300 ancient Western philosophers, from Abammon to Zoticus. Covering the period from the seventh century BC to the seventh century AD, it brings together the...

Approaching the Navel of the Darkened Soul

by Romano Màdera

In order to conduct a well-grounded search for meaning, this book wants to renew the ancient attempt to seek wisdom in everyday life, training ourselves to modify our own perceptions of the world in as authentic...

Socratic Charis: Philosophy without the Agon

by Lisa Atwood Wilkinson

This work offers an evaluation of Plato’s portrayal of “Socrates” in relation to models of the ancient Greek “agon”, oral poetic performance, and the practices of “xenia”. The author reinterprets...

Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with and Beyond Aristotle

by Mae J. Smethurst

By looking at 15^th/16^th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this comparison reveals a previously unnoticed relationship between the structure of the tragedies and...

Roman Philosophy and the Good Life

by Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Raymond Angelo Belliotti's Roman Philosophy and the Good Life provides an accessible picture of these major philosophical influences in Rome and details the crucial role they played during times of major social...

The Book of Five Rings

by Miyamoto Musashi

There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery,...