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  • Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1–8

    General Introduction to the 12 Volumes of Translations

    Series series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
    Supporting the twelve volumes of translation of Simplicius' great commentary on Aristotle's Physics, all published by Bloomsbury in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, between 1992 and 2021, this volume presents a general introduction to the commentary. It covers the philosophical aims of Simplicius' commentaries on the Physics and the related text On the Heaven; Simplicius' methods and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.1–2

    Series series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
    With this translation, all 12 volumes of translation of Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Physics have been published (full list below). In Physics 1.1**–**2, Aristotle raises the question of the number and character of the first principles of nature and feels the need to oppose the challenge of the paradoxical Eleatic philosophers who had denied that there could be more than one unchanging ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body

    Edited by Justin E. H. Smith, Stephen Menn ...
    Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical tradition and study and teach in European universities. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, while still a small boy, he was sent from his home in present-day Ghana to Amsterdam. From there he was sent to Germany as a court attendant of Duke Anton Ulrich of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Poetics (Mobi Classics)

    by Aristotle,Ingram Bywater (Translator) ...
    Aristotle's Poetics aims to give an account of what he calls 'poetry' (covering the lyric, the epos, and the drama). Aristotle attempts to explain 'poetry' through 'first principles' and by discerning its different genres and component elements. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of his discussion. Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in Western critical tradition. Excerpted ... Read more

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  • Ancient Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Categories (Mobi Classics)

    by Aristotle,E. M. Edghill (Translator) ...
    Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the name 'animal'; yet these are equivocally so named, for, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. For should any one define in what sense ... 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

    $11.59 USD

  • Early Greek Science

    Thales to Aristotle

    by Dr G E R Lloyd ...
    In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most concern us today: the interplay between economic factors and politics, the struggle to find a balance between the state and the individual, the role of the intellectual. Most of the books in this series centre on the great focal periods, ... Read more

    $6.19 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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  • Aristotle - On the Soul

    by Aristotle ...
    Series series Greek Philosophy
    On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς, Perì Psūchês; Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations. Thus plants have the capacity for nourishment and reproduction, the minimum that must be possessed by any kind of living organism. Lower ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans

    by W. K. C. Guthrie ...
    All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness. ... Read more

    $75.49 USD

  • 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

    $32.79 USD