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  • Ancient Greek Philosophy

    From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers

    Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.Provides coverage of the Presocratics through the Hellenistic philosophersMoves beyond traditional textbooks that conclude with AristotleA uniquely balanced organization of ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Inquiry, Forms, and Substances

    A Study in Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    i. Introductory remarks 1 Plato, but not Socrates, concluded that the Forms are substances. Whether the Forms are substances is not an issue that Socrates had in mind. He did not deny it, but neither did he affirm it. If Socrates were asked a series of questions designed to determine whether he believed that the Forms are substances, he would admit that he had no opinion about this philosophical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • How to Win an Election

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians

    Translated by Philip Freeman ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign. What follows in his short letter are timeless bits of political ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON

    Enriched edition.

    Immanuel Kant's 'The Critique of Practical Reason' is a seminal work in moral philosophy, exploring the concept of practical reason and its role in guiding human action. Through rigorous analysis and logical argumentation, Kant delves into the principles of moral duty and the nature of ethical decision-making. Written in his signature clear and systematic style, the book reflects the Enlightenment ... Read more

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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)

    In the seminal work 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,' first published in 1922, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between language, reality, and thought. The text unfolds through a series of propositions, meticulously structured to elucidate the limits of language and its role in depicting the world. Wittgenstein's distinctive style combines precision ... Read more

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  • The Hemlock Cup

    Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

    We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stoic Six Pack 4 - The Sceptics (Illustrated)

    Pyyrhonic Sketches, Life of Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, The Greek Sceptics, Stoics & Sceptics and Life of Carneades

    “The truth is hypothetical.”Scepticism (or skepticism), the belief that requires all information to be well supported by evidence, originated in the Skeptikoi, a first century BC Greek school who “asserted nothing.” The school was founded by Aenesidemus; our main source of the school’s teachings is Sextus Empiricus and the leader of the Sceptics was Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 BC) who had traveled to ... Read more

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  • De Anima (On the Soul)

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred ...
    For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms - ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

    A Philosophical Tale

    Translated by Lenn Evan Goodman ...
    The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the world and his own place in it, unaided—but also unimpeded—by society, language, or tradition. Hayy’s discoveries about God, nature, and man challenge the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • How to Run a Country

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders

    Translated by Philip Freeman ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight about ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Embodiment

    A History

    Edited by Justin E.H. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Worlds without End

    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for ... Read more

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