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  • Christopher Bruell

    Essays of Five Decades on Philosophy and Philosophers

    by Christopher Bruell ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Brings together the most remarkable essays on classical and modern philosophy by noted political philosopher Christopher Bruell.Christopher Bruell (1942–2024) was one of the great modern interpreters of classical and modern political philosophy. This volume includes almost all the essays, lectures, and book chapters that he published during a remarkable scholarly career that spanned more than four ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • On the Socratic Education

    An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues

    by Christopher Bruell ...
    Can the education which so many search for today on our college campuses be found in the works of a past author? On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues uncovers the education that Socrates sought on his own behalf and, in so doing, made available to others. Sixteen dialogues are discussed, each considered on its own, but also placed within the context of Plato ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • Socrates

    by A. E. Taylor ...
    This antiquarian book contains Alfred Edward Taylor's fascinating account of the life and mind of Socrates. Within this text Taylor explores Socrates' life and thinking, as well as expounding his philosophy with relation to the understanding of the soul, ethics, and epistemology. It is a clear, concise, and accessible account of his subject, recommended for anyone studying ancient Greek philosophy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Robert C. Bartlett ...
    A "singularly accurate, readable, and elegant translation [of] this much-neglected foundational text of political philosophy" (Peter Ahrensdorf, Davidson College).For more than two thousand years, Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle defines three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial, and epideictic); ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Socrates

    Ironist and Moral Philosopher

    by Gregory Vlastos ...
    This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Plato's Republic: A Study

    by Stanley Rosen ...
    In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Xenophon’s Socratic Works

    by David M. Johnson ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates.David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic Recollections), to its original literary context, enabling readers to experience it as Xenophon’s original ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito

    Critical Essays

    by Rachana Kamtekar, Mark McPherran, P T. Geach, S Marc Cohen, Gregory Vlastos, E De Strycker, S R. Slings, Terence Irwin, M F. Burnyeat, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith, Richard Kraut, David Bostock, Verity Harte, Donald Morrison ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers, investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato

    by Sandra Peterson ...
    In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Xenophon's Socratic Education

    Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics

    by Dustin Sebell ...
    A careful reading of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia and a demonstration of a Socratic educationIt is well known that Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for not believing in the gods and for corrupting the youth. Despite this, it is not widely known what he really thought, or taught the youth to think, about philosophy, the gods, and political affairs. Of the few authors we rely on for ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Reason and Character

    The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy

    by Lorraine Smith Pangle ...
    What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, this book offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle's teachings on the relation between reason and moral virtue. Pangle shows how Aristotle's arguments for virtue as the core of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Republic

    by Plato ...
    The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophyPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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