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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

    Edited by Lloyd Gerson, James Wilberding ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of Plato in the following centuries approached Plato through him. This Companion from a new generation of ancient philosophy scholars reflects the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • PLOTINUS Ennead V.5

    That the Intelligibles are not External to the Intellect, and on the Good

    by Lloyd Gerson ...
    Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation between Plato's Demiurge and the Living Animal which served as the model for creation. The central question is whether &quote;contents&quote; of the Living Animal, the Forms, are internal to the mind of the Demiurge or external and independent. For Plotinus, the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Great Philosophers: Plato

    by Professor Bernard Williams ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors'Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected Plato's views have found themselves working ... Read more

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  • De Anima (On the Soul)

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred ...
    For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms - ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Concerning Being and Essence

    by St. Thomas Aquinas ...
    This early work of philosophy is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains metaphysical ideas of being and essence by influential philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in philosophy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We ... Read more

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  • Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Professor Gerald A. Press ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    It is widely agreed that Plato laid the foundations for the whole history of western thought and, well over 2000 years later, his work is still studied by every student of philosophy. Yet his thought and writings continue to evoke perplexity in readers; and perplexity (aporia) is itself a characteristic of many of his writings, a recurrent motif of his thought, and apparently an important stage ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Epictetus

    Edited by Theodore Scaltsas, Andrew S. Mason ...
    The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has been one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, both in antiquity itself and in modern times. Theodore Scaltsas and Andrew S. Mason present ten specially written papers which discuss Epictetus' thought on a wide range of subjects, including ethics, logic, theology, and psychology; explore his relations to his predecessors (including his two philosophical ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Proclus

    An Introduction

    by Radek Chlup ...
    Proclus of Lycia (412–485) was one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity, producing the most systematic version of late Neoplatonic thought. He exercised enormous influence on Byzantine, medieval, Renaissance and German Classical philosophy, ranking among the top five of ancient philosophers in terms of the number of preserved works. Despite this he is rarely studied now, the enormous ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato

    Edited by David Ebrey, Richard Kraut ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Stoic Virtues

    Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics

    by Dr Christoph Jedan ...
    Series series Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy
    Like its ancient rivals, Stoic ethics was a form of virtue ethics, yet while the concept of virtue was clearly central to Stoic ethics, the concept of Stoic virtue has not yet been fully explored. Instead, the existing literature tends to impose on the Stoic material philosophically quite alien non-Aristotelian interpretations of virtue. According to Christoph Jedan, however, a thorough ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato

    Edited by Richard Kraut ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic

    Edited by G. R. F. Ferrari ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers ... Read more

    $40.99 USD