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  • The New Lucretians, Contemporary Materialism and Historical Method

    by Michael James Bennett ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book critically examines recent interpretations of the Roman poet Lucretius by contemporary materialists. Inspired by his vision of matter in motion and the generativity of nature, political theorists, literary scholars and process philosophers today attribute ideas to Lucretius that anticipate their own innovative work in their respective fields. What should we make of this phenomenon? Why ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics

    The Image of Nature

    by Michael James Bennett ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy
    In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing critical analysis of his highly original readings of Stoicism, Aristotle, and Epicurus, this book shows that it is Deleuze's interpretations of ancient Greek physics that provide the key to understanding his conception of nature.Using the works of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory

    Edited by Michael James Bennett ...
    Series series Deleuze Connections

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Ethics (Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata)

    by Spinoza, Benedict de ...
    The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as "When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it", "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death", and "The human Mind cannot be absolutely ... Read more

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  • A New History of Western Philosophy

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cave and the Light

    Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Arthur Herman ...
    The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture—and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable ... Read more

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  • Alcibiades I

    by eBooksLib ...
    It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle; for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value of the Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty concerning the date and authorship of the writings ... Read more

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  • Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics

    by Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete translation of the work has been available. But the Eudemian Ethics is a masterpiece in its own right, offering valuable insights into Aristotle's ideas on virtue, happiness and the good life. This ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A New Stoicism

    Revised Edition

    by Lawrence C. Becker ...
    What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Evermore Shall Be So

    by Ficino .. ...
    Featuring philosophical commentary from Marsilio Ficino-a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin-this work is the first English translation of Ficino's commentary of Plato's dialogue between the philosopher Parmenides and the youthful Socrates. In the scene, the older man instructs his student on the use of dialectic to draw the mind away from ... Read more

    $7.85 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

    A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2

    by Peter Adamson ...
    Series series A History of Philosophy
    Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are ... Read more

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  • Alcibiades II (Illustrated Edition)

    by Plato ...
    In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy. That year Plato was born to a wealthy family: with an uncle who was ... Read more

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