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  • Doing and Being

    An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta

    by Jonathan Beere ...
    Series series Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
    Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

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  • Ethics

    by Benedictus de Spinoza ...
    Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza. Although published after Spinoza's death, in 1677, it is considered his greatest and most famous work. In it, Spinoza tries to set out a "fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in ... Read more

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  • Metaphysics

    by Aristotle ...
    What is reality—and how do we truly understand existence? In Metaphysics, Aristotle explores the deepest questions of being, substance, cause, and existence itself. This monumental work goes beyond the physical world, seeking to understand the fundamental principles that govern all reality. With profound insight and systematic reasoning, Aristotle examines concepts such as causality, potential and ... Read more

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  • Selections from the Principles of Philosophy

    by René Descartes ...
    Principles of Philosophy (Latin: Principia Philosophiæ) is a book by René Descartes. In essence it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy It was written in Latin, published in 1644 and dedicated to Elisabeth of Bohemia, with whom Descartes had a long-standing friendship. A French version (Les Principes de la Philosophie) followed in 1647. It set forth the ... 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

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  • Timaeus and Critias

    by Plato, Thomas Kjeller Johansen ...
    Translated by Desmond Lee ...
    Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the idea of a creator God and speculates on the structure and composition of the physical world. ... Read more

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  • Nature, Contemplation, and the One

    A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

    by John Deck ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy as it first came to be known in the Christian West. In Nature, Contemplation, and the One, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • 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

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  • Philoponus: On Aristotle Categories 1–5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts

    Edited by Riin Sirkel, Martin Tweedale, John Harris, Daniel King ...
    Series series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
    Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of Philoponus' teacher Ammonius, as well as presenting a Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's Categories. Philoponus treats universals as concepts in the human mind produced by abstracting a form or nature from the material individual in which it has its being.The work is important for its own ... Read more

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  • All From One

    A Guide to Proclus

    Edited by Pieter d'Hoine, Marije Martijn ...
    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

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  • Phenomenology/Ontopoiesis Retrieving Geo-cosmic Horizons of Antiquity

    Logos and Life

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The controversy of flux and stasis as the groundwork of reality of Greek ancient philosophy reached its crux in the all encompassing doctrine of the logos by Heraclitus of Ephesus. It centers upon human soul in its role with the cosmos. Philosophy of the Occident corroborating Greek insights with the progress of culture in numerous interpretations (Kant, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, ... Read more

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