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“thomas a blackson”

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  • Ancient Greek Philosophy

    From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers

    by Thomas A. Blackson ...
    Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.Provides coverage of the Presocratics through the Hellenistic philosophersMoves beyond traditional textbooks that conclude with AristotleA uniquely balanced organization of ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

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  • How to Win an Election

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Translated by Philip Freeman ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Hemlock Cup

    Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

    A Philosophical Tale

    by Ibn Tufayl, Lenn Evan Goodman ...
    Translated by Lenn Evan Goodman ...
    The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided—but also unimpeded—by society, language, or tradition. Hayy’s discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • How to Run a Country

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders

    by Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Translated by Philip Freeman ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight about ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Worlds without End

    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    by Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of Hedonism

    The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life

    by Kurt Lampe ...
    According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Art of Living

    The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy

    by Dr John Sellars ...
    Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? John Sellars explores this question through a detailed account of ancient Stoic ideas about the nature and function of philosophy. He considers the Socratic background ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism

    Edited by James Warren ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Morality of Happiness

    by Julia Annas ...
    Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Plato's Philosophy of Science

    by Andrew Gregory ...
    In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world. He demonstrates that many of the common charges against Plato - disinterest, ignorance, dismissal of observation - are unfounded, and shows instead that Plato had a series of important and cogent criticisms to ... Read more

    $178.19 USD

  • Spiritual Heroism

    by Robert S. Hare ...
    SPIRITUAL HEROISM is a real gem, a small book of heroic philosophy, quotations and paraphrased snippets from down-to-earth wise men: Rousseau, Thoreau, Nietzsche, and other famous minds. Hare researches only the best of writers. He renews their profundities, their well-reasoned maxims. Hare's distilled prose is fine art. Enjoy! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus