Ancient Philosophy – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 10

Seneca
How to Live

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously…

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Ben Lamm
The Elements of Civilization

By the cofounder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, which recently gained global headlines for reviving the extinct dire wolf --- the first of many planned "de-extinction" projects, including wool…

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Zachary Ugolnik
The Collective Self

Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enric…

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Sean Alexander Gurd
God's Lyre

God's Lyreis about a network of ancient ideas that connected musical expression to natural philosophy. This network included Aristotelians, Stoics, and Alexandrian monotheists, and it had a major effect o…

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Zachary Ugolnik
The Collective Self

Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and enric…

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Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as …

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Sebastian Purcell
The Outward Path

The Aztecs were a philosophical people who held that the top goal in human life is not happiness but the pursuit of what they called 'neltiliztli': a life in truth. Our world, they held, is a "slippe…

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Christopher B Zeichmann
Radical Antiquity

'Unearthing the ancient world's anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended' - Alan Moore, writer, activ…

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Christopher Insole
If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do we g…

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Miriam Leonard
Revolution

"The concept of revolution as we understand it today did not exist in antiquity. Despite the word's Latin etymology, only later did it take on its present connotation of a convulsive or irreversible …

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Koert Debeuf,
The Influence of Averroes on European Thought

An exploration of the reception of Avicenna in the West that presents a new reading of the history of European philosophy.

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Boethius
How to Cope

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy---a moving classic about facing life's worst events with courage and hopeWhat do you do when your l…

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The Buddha
How to Feel

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A new translation of the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness-and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotionsTo feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five-hundred …

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Marjolein Oele
Beyond Elemental Loss

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.Beyond Elemen…

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Marjolein Oele
Beyond Elemental Loss

Offers an important and innovative contribution to environmental philosophy by investigating loss in times of anthropogenic climate change through the elements of water, fire, air, and earth.Beyond Elemen…

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Rory Cox
Origins of the Just War

A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding t…

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Phenomenology and the Painted Vase

Most people today encounter ancient Greek vases as static, untouchable artifacts safely out of reach behind glass, in the quiet of a museum gallery. Once, however, these vessels were also useful objects, …

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Sunzi,
Art of War

Conceived by a Chinese warrior-philosopher some 2,500 years ago, The Art of War speaks to those aspiring to rise through the ranks and help build successful countries. How can that goal best be achieved, …

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The Reception of Philo of Alexandria

An authoritative and systematic collection of essays by an international team of experts on the reception of one of the most intriguing figures in the history of Jewish and Christian thought, Philo of Ale…

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Prudentius, Plutarch
How to Have Willpower

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptationHow to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that…

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