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Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

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Dominic J. O'Meara
The Ladder of the Sciences in Late Antique Platonism

A range of sciences was taught in the Platonist schools of late antiquity (third to sixth centuries) with the purpose of leading the human soul up to a divine life. This curriculum constituted so to speak…

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Christine Vitrano
The Pursuit of Success

Despite its centrality to so many of our life choices, the question of what it means to live a successful life has been a neglected topic within philosophy.The Pursuit of Success: A Philosophical Examinat…

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J. J. Mulhern
Aristotle's Political Terminology

Comprehensive examination of the different senses in which Aristotle uses a group of the most important expressions in his political writings, with the aim of making possible a firmer understanding of his…

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Carl Séan O'Brien
Plato's Unwritten Doctrines

This Element examines the arguments advanced by the Tübingen-Milan School in support of the claim that Plato had Unwritten Doctrines (agrapha dogmata), revealed in Aristotle and other testimonia and indic…

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Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Wine and Ecstasy in Plato

Examines inebriation as a culturally informed metaphor employed by Plato to defend the mind-altering effects of philosophy and its reception to the second-century CE. Wine and Ecstasy in Plato examines Pl…

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Galen on Human Physiology

"Galen of Pergamum, 'the prince of medicine', plays a significant role in the history of medicine, philosophy, and cultural history. This book presents a study of his physiology, looking both at Gale…

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Stephen P. Sims
The City Among Cities

An original interpretation of Aristotle's political thought focusing on war and peace. With the post-Cold War international order under stress, Stephen P. Sims reconsiders the relationship between war, pe…

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates

This handbook provides detailed philosophical analysis of the life and thought of Socrates across fifteen in-depth chapters. Each chapter engages with a central aspect of the rich tradition of Socratic st…

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Inquiring into Being

New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics. Inquiring into Being is a study of Parmenides, the early Greek pre-Socratic philosopher often credit…

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James Bernard Murphy
Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how …

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Robert Campbell Roberts
Virtue Ethics

Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new virtu…

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Robert Roreitner
Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception

In this book Robert Roreitner offers a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's philosophically intriguing answers to what the nature of perception is, how it can be explained, and how perception is distinguis…

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Robert Campbell Roberts
Virtue Ethics

Robert Campbell Roberts here offers an introduction to virtue ethics, suitable for students, that covers the topic along multiple dimensions--a historical and conceptual survey, a proposal for a new virtu…

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Marsilio Ficino,
Commentary on Plotinus

A preeminent Renaissance philosopher on the founder of NeoplatonismMarsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority…

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Egidijus Mardosas
Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology

How does ideology function and, more importantly, how can we resist ideological subjugation?Egidijus Mardosas answers these questions by applying the philosophical resources of Revolutionary Aristoteliani…

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Two Philosophers

"If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders," Ayn Rand wrote, "it is Aristotle. He has been opposed, misinterpreted, misrepresented, an…

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Confucius,
The Analects

The Analects ?of Confucius has been the bedrock of Chinese culture for over 2,500 years, shaping the trajectory of human history in ways unmatched by nearly any other secular philosophy. But until now, tr…

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Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly,
Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257c-279c, with 'Syrianus'

"This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic…

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David Machek
Self-Cultivation in Chinese and Greco-Roman Philosophy

In early China and ancient Greece, self-cultivation was considered crucial for leading a flourishing, fulfilled life. In this cross-cultural study, David Machek presents and interprets six influential Gre…

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