Essays on Plato's Epistemology

An Innovating approach to Plato's philosophy. Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the rea...

Augustine

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2015 A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person f...

Essential Epicurus

Interconnectedness

What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On...

Marcus Aurelius Meditations

One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121&;180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and...

Meditations

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121—180) embodied in his person that deeply cherished, ideal figure of antiquity, the philosopher-king. His Meditations are not only one of the most i...

Philosophische Schriften

Hellenistic Philosophy

This new edition of Hellenistic Philosophy --including nearly 100 pages of additional materia--offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Arius Didymus, substantial new sou...

Authority and the Individual

From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority...

The Kybalion

"Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece" is an examination of basic Hermetic teachings. It includes the following chapters: An Introduction, Hermetic Philosophy, Seve...

Greek Horoscopes

According to the author, "About 60 horoscopes from the first five centuries of our era have been published since Young (1828) and Champollion-Figeac (1840) in the papyrological literature." Neugebauer...

Die Philosophie der Antike

Dieser Band führt an die Geburtsstunde des abendländischen Denkens heran. Der Autor erläutert dabei die zentralen Texte und ermöglicht ein besseres Verständnis der ersten großen Philosophen. Denmn die...

Kleine Klassieken - Waarheid en leugen

Waarheid en LeugenFriedrich NietzscheWaarheid en leugen bevat een selectie teksten uit het vroege werk van Nietzsche. Waar wij doorgaans denken grip te hebben op wat wij zeggen, laat deze beroemde fil...

Meedenkers II - Het socratisch gesprek

Begeleiders van een socratisch gesprek geven tijdens een dialoog gewoonlijk niet hun mening. In dit boek staan hun vragen, ervaringen, argumenten en inzichten zwart op wit verzameld. Hoe functioneren...