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Author: Gregory Vlastos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN : 9780691100210
This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. Although many of the essays have appeared in various philosophical and classical journals or symposia, new in the volume are two major studies. One is on Plato's theory of love, exploring its metaphysical dimension and its far-reaching implications for personal
Author: Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521442626
The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the development of his political thinking. In some respects it continues themes from the Republic, particularly the importance of knowledge as entitlement to rule. But there are also changes: Plato has dropped the ambitious metaphysical synthesis of the Republic, changed his view of the moral psychology of
Author: George Briscoe Kerferd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521283571
This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of
Author: Plato/ Jowett, Benjamin (TRN)/ Pelliccia, Hayden (INT)/ Jowett, Benjamin/ Pelliccia, Hayden
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN : 9780375758409
Benjamin Jowett`s translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett`s renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett`s best features and Plato`s own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato`s liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570626333
First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire,
Author: Aurelius, Marcus
Publisher : Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
ISBN : 9781599869704
Profound as philosophy these Meditations certainly are not; but Marcus Aurelius was too sincere not to see the essence of such things as came within his experience. Ancient religions were for the most part concerned with outward things. Do the necessary rites, and you propitiate the gods; and these rites were often trivial, sometimes violated right feeling or even morality. Even when the gods stoo
Author: David Bostock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198752653
In this fascinating introduction, David Bostock presents a fresh perspective on one of the great classics of moral philosophy: Aristotle''s Nicomachaen Ethics. He argues that it is, and deserves to be, Aristotle''s most widely studied work, for much of what it has to say is still important for today''s debate on the problems of ethics. Here, Bostock guides the reader through explanations and evalu
Author: PH. J. Van Der Eijk;Philip J. Van Der Eijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521818001
This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously-published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of n
Author: Kingsley, Charles
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435347373
Originally published in 1890. Author: Charles Kingsley Language: English Keywords: Literature Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Publisher : State University of New York
ISBN : 9780791435526
Maintaining that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core, David Bolotin argues in this book that Aristotle never seriously intended many of his doctrines that have been demolished by modern science. To that end, he presents a number of case studies to show that Aristotle deliberately misrepresented his views about nature -- a thought
Author: Kingsley, Charles
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435347335
Originally published in 1890. Author: Charles Kingsley Language: English Keywords: Literature Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570626319
First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott''s extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire
Author: Phiolstratus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN : 9780674991491
Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus ''the Athenian'', ca. 170-205 CE, was a Greek sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb nos. 16 and 17) and of Lives of the Sophists, a treasury of information about notable sophists. Philostratus''s sketches of sophists in action yield a fascinatin
Author: Copenhaver, Brian P./ Schmitt, Charles B.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780192891846
The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. Little attention has been devoted, however, to the distinct contribution of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to the philosophy written, read, taught, and debated during the period traditionally credited with the revival of learning. Beginning with original
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570626326
First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire,
Author: Gotthelf, Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521310918
Aristotle''s biological works - constituting over 25% of his surviving corpus and for centuries largely unstudied by philosophically oriented scholars - have been the subject of an increasing amount of attention of late. This collection brings together some of the best work that has been done in this area, with the aim of exhibiting the contribution that close study of these treatises can make to
Author: Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521383394
In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented in its most elaborate and challenging form. This book investigates - both from an exegetical and from a philosophical point of view - the chief argumentative forms which ancient scepticism developed. Thus the particular focus is on the Agrippan aspect of Sextus? Pyrrhonism. Barnes gives a lucid explanation and analysis of these arguments, b
Author: Aegyptus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766191754
1931. The symbolic figurines (the keys) of the Macro-Cosmic Mystery, comprise the exact half of the eighteen Master keys to the Ten Greater Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The second half, a set of nine figurine keys, belongs to the Micro-Cosmic Mystery, the second of a series of ten books on the Atlantis-Egypt Secret Doctrine. Both sets (nine keys to each set) should be memorized, to enable students
Author: Aegyptus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766191747
1931. The symbolic figurines (the keys) of the Macro-Cosmic Mystery, comprise the exact half of the eighteen Master keys to the Ten Greater Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The second half, a set of nine figurine keys, belongs to the Micro-Cosmic Mystery, the second of a series of ten books on the Atlantis-Egypt Secret Doctrine. Both sets (nine keys to each set) should be memorized, to enable students
Author: Guthrie, William Keith Chambers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521096676
The third volume of Professor Guthrie''s great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of the two parts is available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so th
Platonic Studies
Author: Gregory VlastosPublisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN : 9780691100210
This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. Although many of the essays have appeared in various philosophical and classical journals or symposia, new in the volume are two major studies. One is on Plato's theory of love, exploring its metaphysical dimension and its far-reaching implications for personal
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The Statesman
Author: PlatoPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521442626
The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the development of his political thinking. In some respects it continues themes from the Republic, particularly the importance of knowledge as entitlement to rule. But there are also changes: Plato has dropped the ambitious metaphysical synthesis of the Republic, changed his view of the moral psychology of
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The Sophistic Movement
Author: George Briscoe KerferdPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521283571
This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual mountebanks - a picture which Professor Kerferd forcefully challenges here. Interpreting the evidence with care, he shows them to have been part of
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Selected Dialogues
Author: Plato/ Jowett, Benjamin (TRN)/ Pelliccia, Hayden (INT)/ Jowett, Benjamin/ Pelliccia, HaydenPublisher : Modern Library
ISBN : 9780375758409
Benjamin Jowett`s translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett`s renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett`s best features and Plato`s own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato`s liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces
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Hermetica Volume 4 Testimonia, Addenda, and Indices
Author: Walter ScottPublisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570626333
First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire,
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Meditations
Author: Aurelius, Marcus Publisher : Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
ISBN : 9781599869704
Profound as philosophy these Meditations certainly are not; but Marcus Aurelius was too sincere not to see the essence of such things as came within his experience. Ancient religions were for the most part concerned with outward things. Do the necessary rites, and you propitiate the gods; and these rites were often trivial, sometimes violated right feeling or even morality. Even when the gods stoo
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Aristotle's Ethics
Author: David BostockPublisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198752653
In this fascinating introduction, David Bostock presents a fresh perspective on one of the great classics of moral philosophy: Aristotle''s Nicomachaen Ethics. He argues that it is, and deserves to be, Aristotle''s most widely studied work, for much of what it has to say is still important for today''s debate on the problems of ethics. Here, Bostock guides the reader through explanations and evalu
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Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease
Author: PH. J. Van Der Eijk;Philip J. Van Der EijkPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521818001
This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously-published essays on the close connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical authors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus and Caelius Aurelianus elaborated on philosophical methods such as causal explanation, definition and division and applied key concepts such as the notion of n
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Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face
Author: Kingsley, Charles Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435347373
Originally published in 1890. Author: Charles Kingsley Language: English Keywords: Literature Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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An Approach to Aristotle's Physics: With Particular Attention to the Role of His Manner of Writing
Author: Publisher : State University of New York
ISBN : 9780791435526
Maintaining that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core, David Bolotin argues in this book that Aristotle never seriously intended many of his doctrines that have been demolished by modern science. To that end, he presents a number of case studies to show that Aristotle deliberately misrepresented his views about nature -- a thought
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Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face
Author: Kingsley, Charles Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435347335
Originally published in 1890. Author: Charles Kingsley Language: English Keywords: Literature Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Hermetica Volume 2 Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum
Author: Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570626319
First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott''s extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire
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Philostratus and Eunapuis
Author: PhiolstratusPublisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN : 9780674991491
Of the distinguished Lemnian family of Philostrati, Flavius Philostratus ''the Athenian'', ca. 170-205 CE, was a Greek sophist who studied at Athens and later lived in Rome. He was author of the admirable Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Loeb nos. 16 and 17) and of Lives of the Sophists, a treasury of information about notable sophists. Philostratus''s sketches of sophists in action yield a fascinatin
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Renaissance Philosophy
Author: Copenhaver, Brian P./ Schmitt, Charles B.Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780192891846
The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. Little attention has been devoted, however, to the distinct contribution of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to the philosophy written, read, taught, and debated during the period traditionally credited with the revival of learning. Beginning with original
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Hermetica Volume 3 Notes on the Latin Asclepius and the Hermetic Excerpts of Stobaeus
Author: Walter ScottPublisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570626326
First published in 1924, this classic four-volume work contains various Greek and Latin writings of religious or philosophic teachings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, with Walter Scott's extensive notes, commentary, and addenda. It is said that these teachings are records of private, intimate talks between a teacher and one or two of his disciples. The setting was in Egypt under the Roman Empire,
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Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology
Author: Gotthelf, AllanPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521310918
Aristotle''s biological works - constituting over 25% of his surviving corpus and for centuries largely unstudied by philosophically oriented scholars - have been the subject of an increasing amount of attention of late. This collection brings together some of the best work that has been done in this area, with the aim of exhibiting the contribution that close study of these treatises can make to
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The Toils of Scepticism
Author: Jonathan BarnesPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521383394
In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented in its most elaborate and challenging form. This book investigates - both from an exegetical and from a philosophical point of view - the chief argumentative forms which ancient scepticism developed. Thus the particular focus is on the Agrippan aspect of Sextus? Pyrrhonism. Barnes gives a lucid explanation and analysis of these arguments, b
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The Micro-Cosmic Mystery
Author: AegyptusPublisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766191754
1931. The symbolic figurines (the keys) of the Macro-Cosmic Mystery, comprise the exact half of the eighteen Master keys to the Ten Greater Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The second half, a set of nine figurine keys, belongs to the Micro-Cosmic Mystery, the second of a series of ten books on the Atlantis-Egypt Secret Doctrine. Both sets (nine keys to each set) should be memorized, to enable students
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The Macro-Cosmic Mystery
Author: AegyptusPublisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766191747
1931. The symbolic figurines (the keys) of the Macro-Cosmic Mystery, comprise the exact half of the eighteen Master keys to the Ten Greater Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The second half, a set of nine figurine keys, belongs to the Micro-Cosmic Mystery, the second of a series of ten books on the Atlantis-Egypt Secret Doctrine. Both sets (nine keys to each set) should be memorized, to enable students
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Socrates
Author: Guthrie, William Keith ChambersPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521096676
The third volume of Professor Guthrie''s great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of the two parts is available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so th
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