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  • Ancient Greek Philosophy

    From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers

    par Thomas A. Blackson ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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  • How to Win an Election

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians

    par Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Traduit par Philip Freeman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan

    A Philosophical Tale

    par Ibn Tufayl, Lenn Evan Goodman ...
    Traduit par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD

  • How to Run a Country

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders

    par Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Traduit par Philip Freeman ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Worlds without End

    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    par Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Birth of Hedonism

    The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life

    par Kurt Lampe ...
    According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD

  • The Art of Living

    The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy

    par Dr John Sellars ...
    Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? John Sellars explores this question through a detailed account of ancient Stoic ideas about the nature and function of philosophy. He considers the Socratic background ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism

    Modifié par James Warren ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Morality of Happiness

    par Julia Annas ...
    Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a ... En savoir plus

    $67.19 CAD

  • Plato's Philosophy of Science

    par Andrew Gregory ...
    In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world. He demonstrates that many of the common charges against Plato - disinterest, ignorance, dismissal of observation - are unfounded, and shows instead that Plato had a series of important and cogent criticisms to ... En savoir plus

    $231.49 CAD

  • Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato

    par Rana Saadi Liebert ...
    This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD

  • Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato)

    par J Warry ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Plato
    This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them, revealing many of their differences to be complementary aspects of an essentially similar viewpoint. He also shows how Greek ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD