Books in category History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self: The Legacy of a Christian Platonist

Author: Phillip Cary
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195132069
This book argues that Augustine invented or created the concept of self as an inner space -- as space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. This concept of inwardness, says Cary, has worked its way deeply into the intellectuaL heritage of the West and many Western individuals have experienced themselves as inner selves. After surveying the idea of inwardness in Augustine's predec

Meno and Other Dialogues

Author: Plato
Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780192804259
A unique selection of four dialogues in which Plato considers virtue-- individual virtue as well as virtue as a whole-- and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship. The later Meno discusses the concept of virtue as awhole, and whether it is something that can be taught. Plato is a major figure in the history of Western

Wisdom of the Ancients

Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781564592293
Cassandra, or Divination; Typhon, or a Rebel; The Cyclops, or the Ministers of Terror, Narcissus, or Self-love; Styx, or Leagues; Pan, or Nature; Perseus, or War; Endymion, or a Favorite; The Sister of the Giants, or Fame; Actaeon and Pentheus, or a Curious Man; Orpheus, or Philosophy; Coelum, or Beginnings; Proteus, or Matter; Memnon, or a Youth too Forward; Tithonus, or Satiety; Juno's Suitor, o

Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199255214

Ad Nationes Book I

Author: Tertullian
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419104695
We are indeed said to be the third race of men. What, a dog-faced race?(16) Or broadly shadow-footed?(17) Or some subterranean(18) Antipodes? If you attach any meaning to these names, pray tell us what are the first and the second race, that so we may know something of this third. Psammetichus thought that he had hit upon the ingenious discovery of the primeval man. He is said to have removed cert

Classical Philosophy

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780192892539
Classical Philosophy introduces students to several of the essential philosophical questions raised by the Greek and Roman philosophers of classical antiquity. Featuring a thematic--as opposed to chronological--structure, this Oxford Reader focuses on philosophical problems and ideas rather than on historical circumstances. Selections from the writings of ancient philosophers--some new translation

The Composition of Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia: Observation and Explanation

Author: John J. Keaney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195070323
Discovered one hundred years ago, Aristotle''s Athenaion Politeia is invaluable to contemporary understanding of Athenian democracy. As a historical record, however, it has been found to be so unreliable that some have questioned its true authorship, and it has remained largely ignored by those studying philosophy and literature. Keaney uses a literary approach to reassert Aristotle''s authorship

Cogito: A Collection of Essays

Author: Aronson, Martin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN : 9780595383450
In this collection of 18 essays written over a period of about 20 years, author Martin Aronson muses on a variety of topics, which span from the sublimely philosophical to the earthily pragmatic. Written with the intention of originally and coherently exploring a personal topic of interest, each essay attempts to wed insight with clarity. In Cogito, the author meditates on such concerns as the nat

Nicomachean Ethics

Author: Aristotle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198752714
This work presents the Nicomachean Ethics in a fresh English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to be meticulously accurate yet also accessible. The translation is accompanied by Sarah Broadie''s detailed line-by-line commentary, which brings out the subtlety of Aristotle''s thought as it develops from moment to moment. In addition, a substantial introductory section features a thorough

Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine Justice

Author: Plutarch
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781417929115
1885. Plutarch was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned. He wrote on many subjects and his many varied extant works, about 60 in number,

Seneca - A Philosopher in Politics

Author: Griffin, Miriam T. (EDT)
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780198147749
The relationship between Seneca''s prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic, for while he writes in the first person, he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting. In this book, Miriam Griffin addresses the problem by first reconstructing Seneca''s career using only outside sources and his de Clementia and Apocolocynto

The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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Publisher : Cosimo
ISBN : 9781596059290
He was the father of the occult, the founder of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. He was Hermes Trismegistus, and as the scribe of the gods of ancient Egypt, he possessed all divine knowledge... which he passed on to humanity, though only those who have been tutored in its wonders can fully understand it. In this extraordinary 1912 book, three secret initiates to his teachings-who remain anony

Plotinos Complete Works Vols. III and IV (1918)

Author: Plotinus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766177567
Volume 3 and 4. The works of Plotinus are presented in chronological order, grouped into four periods; with Biography by Porphyry, Eunapius and Suidas, Commentary by Porphyry, Illustrations by Iamblichus and Ammonius, Studies in sources, development, influence; and an Index of subjects, thoughts and words. By fusing parallel streams of thought, Plotinus became the representative of the post-Platon

Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

Author: Sharples, R. W.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415110358
The Hellenistic philosophers and schools of philosophy are emerging from the shadow of Plato and Aristotle and are increasingly studied for their intrinsic philosophical value. They are not only interesting in their own right, but also form the intellectual background of the late Roman Republic. This study gives a comprehensive and readable account of the principal doctrines of the Stoics, Epicure

Plotinos Complete Works Vols. I and II (1918)

Author: Plotinos
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766177536
Volume 1 and 2. The works of Plotinus are presented in chronological order, grouped into four periods; with Biography by Porphyry, Eunapius and Suidas, Commentary by Porphyry, Illustrations by Iamblichus and Ammonius, Studies in sources, development, influence; and an Index of subjects, thoughts and words. By fusing parallel streams of thought, Plotinus became the representative of the post-Platon

Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics

Author: Sharples, R. W.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415110341
The Hellenistic philosophers and schools of philosophy are emerging from the shadow of Plato and Aristotle and are increasingly studied for their intrinsic philosophical value. They are not only interesting in their own right, but also form the intellectual background of the late Roman Republic. This study gives a comprehensive and readable account of the principal doctrines of the Stoics, Epicure

Form, Matter, and Mixture in Aristotle

Author: Lewis, Frank A. (EDT)/ Bolton, Robert/ Bolton, Robert (EDT)/ University of Southern California (COR)
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631200925
This volume brings together papers by participants in the fourth annual USC/Rutgers conference in Aristotle, held at USC in December of 1992 on Aristotle's theory of matter. Five papers take up different applications of Aristotle's fundamental hylomorphic hypothesis: the account of human soul as form to the human body as matter; the unity of the substantial form and proximate matter in the individ

Pherekydes of Syros

Author: Hermann Sadun Schibli
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN : 9780198143833
In the sixth century B.C., Pherekydes of Syros, the reputed teacher of Pythagoras and a contemporary of Thales and Anaximander, wrote a book about the birth of the gods and the origin of the cosmos. Considered one of the first prose works of Greek literature, Pherekydes'' book survives only in fragments. Drawing on these fragments, as well as the ancient testimonies, Schibli here reconstructs the

Art and Thought of Heraclitus

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521286459
Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus'' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of multiple meaning, and a vision of human life and death within the larger order of nature. The fragments are presented here in a readable order; transl

Ethics with Aristotle

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195085600
This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle''s ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theoria in the best life. Never forgetting that ethics for Aristotle is above all a practical enterprise, she sheds new light on ways in which this practical orient