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  • Aristotle's Politics

    Critical Essays

    by Jonathan Barnes, John M. Cooper, Dorothea Frede, Stephen Taylor Holmes, David Keyt, Fred D. Miller Jr., Josiah Ober, Stephen G. Salkever, Malcolm Schofield, Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. The essays in this volume aim to address, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • The Open Society and Its Enemies

    by Karl Sir Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    ‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’- Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Politics

    by Aristotle, Trevor Saunders ...
    Translated by T. Sinclair ...
    Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • A Short History of Ethics

    A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. MacIntyre ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Open Society and its Enemies

    by Karl Popper ...
    Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered ... Read more

    $180.00 USD

  • Right And Reason

    Ethics Based on the Teachings of Aristotle & St. Thomas Aquinas

    by Rev. Fr. Austin Fagothey ...
    Ethics both in theory and practice. Phrased in non-technical language, Right and Reason is a thoroughly competent book in the philosophy of Ethics, which gives the science of morality from the Aristotelian-Thomistic, common-sense school of thought--which is none other than the Perennial Philosophy of the Ages, the philosophy outside of which one's positions quickly become absurd and all reasoning ... Read more

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  • Sex and the Second-Best City

    Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato

    by Kenneth Royce Moore ...
    Series series Studies in Classics
    Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient "sexuality" with a view to increased clarification. The text of the Laws is considered, along with many of its literary qualities, its influences and the utopian plan that it proposes. ... Read more

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  • 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

    $16.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    Edited by Ronald Polansky ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays by leading scholars of Aristotle and ancient philosophy that cover the major issues of this text. The ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece

    by John Poulakos ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable.In Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos argues that a proper understanding of sophistical rhetoric requires a grasp of three cultural dynamics of the fifth century B.C.: the logic of circumstances, the ethic of competition, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Socrates

    by Donald R. Morrison ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is thus a literary figure as well as a historical person. Both aspects of Socrates' legacy are covered in ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • A Short History of Ethics

    A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second Edition

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book “thirty years on” and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD