Ancient Philosophy – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Page 9

Agnes Callard
Open Socrates

There are important questions about your life that you are avoiding, right now, as you read this. You tell yourself that now is not the moment to attempt an answer. Like other people you know, you are tak…

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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of 'horror' in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equa…

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James S. Romm
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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Michael Lamb
A Commonwealth of Hope

A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set f…

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Epictetus
The Teachings of a Stoic

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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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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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Justin Pack
Prehistoric Philosophy

Prehistoric Philosophy challenges the narrative of progress and other civilizational myths by looking at their origins in the neolithic revolution. Once we reject the simplistic and often racist stereotyp…

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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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Patrick Glauthier
The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' Astronomica , Seneca's N…

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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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Jennifer T Roberts
Out of One, Many

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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