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  • 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

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  • The Critique of Practical Reason

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. Kant’s writings continue to influence the philosophy in many fields including metaphysics, ethics, and political theory. This edition of The Critique of Practical Reason includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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

    This carefully crafted ebook: “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (The original 1922 edition with an introduction by Bertram Russell)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length philosophical work published by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his lifetime. It was an ambitious project: to identify the ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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

  • All From One

    A Guide to Proclus

    Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official 'successors' of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • Five Dialogues

    Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Benjamin Jowett ...
    Explore the foundational ideas of Western philosophy through Plato's "Five Dialogues." This collection, translated by Benjamin Jowett, presents a series of engaging conversations that delve into ethics, justice, virtue, and the nature of the soul. From Socrates' compelling defense in the "Apology" to the profound discussions of "Phaedo" on the immortality of the soul, these dialogues offer ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

    The Story of Necessity

    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Form without Matter

    Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception

    Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he argues that a puzzle about perception at a distance is behind Empedocles' theory of vision. Empedocles conceives of perception as a mode of material ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Wittgenstein and Plato

    Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Dimensions of the Logical

    A Hermeneutic Inquiry

    Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. Misch’s notion of a logic of life considers the Word in the plenitude of its great powers. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study via Misch’s anthropological conception on to the phenomenological ontology of Martin Heidegger and Josef Koenig’s investigation of ... Read more

    $88.19 USD