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Friend to Mankind: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)

by Michael Shepherd

Eighteen essays reexamine Ficino’s life and work focusing on three essential aspects: his significance in his own times, his spreading influence throughout Europe and over subsequent centuries in many areas...


Sun-Tzu: The Art of Warfare

by Roger T. Ames

The most widely read military classic in human history, newly translated and revised in accordance with newly discovered materials of unprecedented historical significance. Fluid, crisp and rigorously faithful...


The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle

by W.K.C. Guthrie

W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics,...


Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece

by John Poulakos & Thomas W. Benson

An introduction to the rhetorical tradition of sophistical dialectics in antiquity


Aristotle's Metaphysics

by , Aristotle

Metaphysics is one of the principle works of Aristotle and the first major work of the branch of philosophy with the same name. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...


Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy: An Introduction

by Stephen Clark

Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions;...


LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida

by Roy Brand

Since its inception, philosophy has been more than an abstract search for truth or body of knowledge. It perfects one’s understanding by means of discussion and dialogue and personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation....


Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy but didn't Know Who to Ask

by Patricia F. O'Grady

Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition. Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece brings the thoughts and lives of the pioneers of Western philosophy down from their sometimes remote...


Word and Meaning in Ancient Alexandria: Theories of Language from Philo to Plotinus

by David Robertson

During the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods (B.C. 50 - A.D. 300), important developments may be traced in the philosophy of language and its relationship to mind. Focusing on two basic issues, why...


Angels in Medieval Philosophical Inquiry: Their Function and Significance

by Isabel Iribarren & Martin Lenz

This collection of essays is a significant scholarly contribution to angelology. The unifying theme is that of the role of angels in philosophical inquiry, where each contribution represents a case study in...


Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism: Plato's Subtlest Enemy

by Ugo Zilioli

In this book, Zilioli relates Protagoras' relativism with modern forms of relativism, in particular the 'robust relativism' of Joseph Margolis. He also gives an integrated account both of the perceptual relativism...


Aristotle, Emotions, and Education

by Kristján| Kristjánsson

In a formidable display of boundary-breaking scholarship, Kristján Kristjánsson analyzes and dispels misconceptions about Aristotle's views on morality, emotions and education that abound in the current literature...


Plotinus on the Appearance of Time and the World of Sense: A Pantomime

by Deepa Majumdar

In this book, Majumdar investigates Plotinian "emanation," its laws of poiesis and the roles of nature, matter, logos and contemplation. She highlights the subtler details of Plotinus' cosmology by disentangling...


Hellenic Philosophy: Origin and Character

by Christos C. Evangeliou

Radical and revisionary in nature, this work challenges many of the long cherished myths about the influence of Classical Hellenic philosophy on the tradition of Western thought. Tracing the historical origin...


Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates

by Gabriel Danzig

Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary...


The Government of Self and Others

by Michel Foucault, Graham Burchell & Arnold I. I. Davidson

This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of truth-telling,...


Plato: Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines

by John Niemeyer Findlay

J.N. Findlay, distinguished scholar and acknowledged expert on Plato, argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background...


Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World

by Haiming Wen

This engaging work of comparative philosophy puts the Chinese and American philosophical traditions into a mutually informative and transformative philosophical dialogue on the way to developing a new form of...


Plato's Dialectic on Woman: Equal, Therefore Inferior

by Elena Blair

With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato's dialogues...


Plato's Republic: A Biography

by Simon Blackburn

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city--and...