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Serie: Issues in ancient philosophy
PaperbackEngels9780367496890
25-2-2020
Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum, On Nature XXV. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367344986
17-6-2022
Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367222185
9-7-2019
The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367023720
28-7-2023
This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367592158
14-8-2020
This volume is the first monograph devoted to the philosophy of Taurus of Beirut, and provides a long-awaited analysis of his texts and their first English translation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367594220
14-8-2020
The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367687106
28-10-2024
This book offers a comprehensive, iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his interests and activity. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367683214
16-12-2022
The first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis, offering an insight into its philosophical and historical context and solidfying the role of this work as a major step towards the cosmic theology of the Hellenistic period. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367683238
28-10-2024
This first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis offers readers an insight into the its philosophical and historical context, purpose, and legacy to reach a definition of its theology. Meer
GebondenEngels9781138151116
2-12-2016
What is rhetoric?
Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Meer
GebondenEngels9781138837812
30-10-2017
The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. Meer
GebondenEngels9780367687090
1-7-2022
Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367873189
12-12-2019
In this bold new study, Andrew J. Mason seeks both to shed light on the key issue of flux in Plato’s work, and to show that there is also in Plato a notion of flow that needs to be distinguished from flux. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415642385
26-7-2012
Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415184670
3-12-1998
Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415089401
7-1-1993
For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one's life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.' Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the context of the most recent thinking about the nature and value of philosophy, and the author questions how much there is to be learnt from the ancient philosophers' differing conceptions of the ideal life. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415146432
12-3-1998
What is rhetoric?
Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415115575
17-11-1994
As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780367874742
12-12-2019
Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s formation? Meer
GebondenEngels9780415041515
17-11-1994
As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. Meer