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  • Cicero: On Moral Ends

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Translated by Raphael Woolf ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    This 2001 translation makes one of the most important texts in ancient philosophy available to modern readers. Cicero is increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and well-educated amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf's translation does ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Cicero

    The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic

    by Raphael Woolf ...
    Series series Philosophy in the Roman World
    Cicero’s philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero’s value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic schools is unquestioned, Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic explores his writings as works of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Plato's Charmides

    by Raphael Woolf ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato
    Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of drama and argument. Raphael Woolf offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements that pays close attention to its complex and layered structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato. He thus aims to present a compelling and unified interpretation of the dialogue as a whole. The book mounts a strong case for the formal separation of Plato the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Cicero's ‘De Officiis'

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Raphael Woolf ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Cicero's De Officiis, perhaps his most influential philosophical work, ranges over a wide variety of themes, from the role of the family in society to the question of whether our duties can conflict with one another, and from the moral significance of offence to the question of whether it is right to kill a dictator. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, is ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • 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

    $21.39 USD

  • Rereading Ancient Philosophy

    Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows

    Edited by Verity Harte, Raphael Woolf ...
    This book revisits, and sheds fresh light on, some key texts and debates in ancient philosophy. Its twin targets are 'Old Chestnuts' – well-known passages in the works of ancient philosophers about which one might have thought everything there is to say has already been said – and 'Sacred Cows' – views about what ancient philosophers thought, on issues of philosophical importance, that have ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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    by Ward Farnsworth ...
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    $13.09 USD

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  • The Therapy of Desire

    Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by David Ross ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters

    Translated with introduction and commentary

    by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers
    Seneca's Letters to Lucilius are a rich source of information about ancient Stoicism, an influential work for early modern philosophers, and a fascinating philosophical document in their own right. This selection of the letters aims to include those which are of greatest philosophical interest, especially those which highlight the debates between Stoics and Platonists or Aristotelians in the first ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD