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

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...

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...

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...

Republicanism During The Early Roman Empire

Exploring the political ideology of Republicanism under the Roman emperors of the first century AD, Sam Wilkinson puts forward the hypothesis that there was indeed opposition to the political structur...

Aristotle on Political Community

Aristotle's claims that 'man is a political animal' and that political community 'exists for the sake of living well' have frequently been celebrated by thinkers of divergent political persuasions. Th...