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On Aristotle "On the Soul" (Hardcover): Themistius On Aristotle "On the Soul" (Hardcover)
Themistius; Translated by Robert B. Todd
R4,319 Discovery Miles 43 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"On the Soul" was the most widely read of all the Aristotle commentaries in the Renaissance. The best-known of Themistius's discussions is that concerned with Aristotle's active intellect, which leads to his wider musings on the nature of the self. The 15,000 pages of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 500 AD, constitute the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writing not translated into English or other European languages. This new series of translations, planned in 60 volumes, fills an important gap in the history of European thought.

Siddhartha (Hardcover): Hermann Hesse Siddhartha (Hardcover)
Hermann Hesse
R563 R517 Discovery Miles 5 170 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Courage in the Democratic Polis - Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens (Hardcover): Ryan K. Balot Courage in the Democratic Polis - Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens (Hardcover)
Ryan K. Balot
R2,239 Discovery Miles 22 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to re-conceive of courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Ranging from Thucydides and Aristophanes to the Greek tragedians and Plato, Balot shows that the ancient Athenians constructed a novel vision of courage that linked this virtue to fundamental democratic ideals such as freedom, equality, and practical rationality. The Athenian ideology of courage had practical implications for the conduct of war, for gender relations, and for the citizens' self-image as democrats. In revising traditional ideals, Balot argues, the Athenians reimagined the emotional and cognitive motivations for courage in ways that will unsettle and transform our contemporary discourses. Without losing sight of political tensions and practical conflicts, Balot illustrates the merits of the Athenian ideal, provocatively explaining its potential to enlarge our contemporary understandings of politics and ethics. The result is a remarkably interdisciplinary work that has significant implications for the theory and practice of democracy, both ancient and modern.

Greek Mythography in the Roman World (Hardcover): Alan Cameron Greek Mythography in the Roman World (Hardcover)
Alan Cameron
R3,849 Discovery Miles 38 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and contemporaries alike; nor would one be able to identify the scenes represented on the mosaic floors and wall paintings in your cultivated friends' houses, or on the silverware on their tables at dinner.
Mythology was no longer imbibed in the nursery; nor could it be simply picked up from the often oblique allusions in the classics. It had to be learned in school, as illustrated by the extraordinary amount of elementary mythological information in the many surviving ancient commentaries on the classics, notably Servius, who offers a mythical story for almost every person, place, and even plant Vergil mentions. Commentators used the classics as pegs on which to hang stories they thought their students should know.
A surprisingly large number of mythographic treatises survive from the early empire, and many papyrus fragments from lost works prove that they were in common use. In addition, author Alan Cameron identifies a hitherto unrecognized type of aid to the reading of Greek and Latin classical and classicizing texts--what might be called mythographic companions to learned poets such as Aratus, Callimachus, Vergil, and Ovid, complete with source references. Much of this book is devoted to an analysis of the importance evidently attached to citing classical sources for mythical stories, the clearest proof that they were now a part of learned culture. So central were these source references that the more unscrupulous faked them, sometimes on the grand scale.

On Aristotle "On Interpretation, 1-8" (Hardcover): Ammonius On Aristotle "On Interpretation, 1-8" (Hardcover)
Ammonius; Translated by David L. Blank
R4,308 Discovery Miles 43 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Aristotle's "On Interpretation", a centrepiece of his logic, studies the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements. The first eight chapters, studied here, explain what statements are; they start from their basic components, the words, and work up to the character of opposed affirmations and negations. The 15,000 pages of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, written mainly between 200 and 500 AD, constitute the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writing not translated into English or other European languages. This new series of translations, planned in 60 volumes, fills an important gap in the history of European thought.

Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy (Hardcover, 1995 ed.): Debra Nails Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Debra Nails
R2,804 Discovery Miles 28 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation. It goes on to offer a new way to group the dialogues, based on important facts in the lives and philosophical practices of Socrates - the main speaker in most of Plato's dialogues - and of Plato himself. Both sides of Debra Nails's arguments deserve close attention: the negative side, which exposes a great deal of diversity in a field that often claims to have achieved a consensus; and the positive side, which insists that we must attend to what we know of these philosophers' lives and practices, if we are to make a serious attempt to understand why Plato wrote the way he did, and why his writings seem to depict different philosophies and even different approaches to philosophizing. From the Preface by Nicholas D. Smith.

Necronomicon - The Anunnaki Bible (Hardcover, 10th Anniversary Collector's ed.): Joshua Free Necronomicon - The Anunnaki Bible (Hardcover, 10th Anniversary Collector's ed.)
Joshua Free; Cover design or artwork by Kyra Kaos
R1,217 Discovery Miles 12 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A History of Women Philosophers - Ancient Women Philosophers 600 B.C. - 500 A.D. (Hardcover, 1987 ed.): Mary Ellen Waithe A History of Women Philosophers - Ancient Women Philosophers 600 B.C. - 500 A.D. (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Mary Ellen Waithe
R5,707 Discovery Miles 57 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

edited by Mary Ellen Waithe Series: HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS volume: 1 This first volume in a set of four chronicles the contributions women have made to that most abstract of intellectual disciplines, philosophy. Translations of the aphorisms of Theano, the feminist ethical writings of Theano II, Phintys and Perictione, the socio-political theory of Aesara of Lucania and the Sophias of Perictione II demonstrate that women have been philosophers since circa 600 B.C. A chapter on Aspasia, author of the Epitaphia reported by Socrates in Plato's Menexenus, describes her role as a rhetorician. This volume challenges the view that Diotima was not a philosopher but was Plato's only fictitious character. The discussion of Hypatia's Commentaries on Diophantus and on Ptolemy belies the Suda's claim that all of her writings have perished. Chapters on Makrina's Christian philosophy and on Julia Domna's philosophic circle testify to ancient women's philosophical enterprises. A chapter describing the philosophic schools headed by Arete of Cyrene and by Asclepigenia, as well as the philosophic activities of Cleobuline of Rhodes, Hipparchia, Axiothea and Lasthenia completes the survey of ancient women's philosophical legacy. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht April 1987 256 pp. Hardbound Dfl.169.00 BrP.67.50 April 1987 256 pp. Paperback Dfl.56.00 BrP.22.50

Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume One: Sense Perception (Hardcover): Juhana Toivanen Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume One: Sense Perception (Hardcover)
Juhana Toivanen
R3,692 Discovery Miles 36 920 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions - Greek, Latin, and Arabic - and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This first volume focuses on sense perception and discusses philosophical questions concerning the external senses, their classification, and their functioning, from Aristotle to Brentano.

Mythos and Logos - How to Regain the Love of Wisdom (Paperback): Albert A. Anderson, Steven V Hicks, Lech Witkowski Mythos and Logos - How to Regain the Love of Wisdom (Paperback)
Albert A. Anderson, Steven V Hicks, Lech Witkowski
R2,802 Discovery Miles 28 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient Greeks. As concepts fundamental to human experience, Mythos and Logos continue to guide the search for truth in the twenty-first century.

Hierocles of Alexandria (Hardcover): Hermann S. Schibli Hierocles of Alexandria (Hardcover)
Hermann S. Schibli
R5,568 Discovery Miles 55 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hierocles of Alexandria was a Neoplatonic philosopher of the fifth century AD. Hermann S. Schibli surveys his life, writings, and pagan and Christian surroundings, and succinctly examines the major points of his philosophy, both contemplative and practical. He includes the first modern English translations, with helpful notes, of Hierocles' Commentary on the Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans and of the remnants of his treatise On Providence.

On Theophrastus on Perception (Hardcover): Carlos Steel On Theophrastus on Perception (Hardcover)
Carlos Steel; Priscian; Volume editing by Peter Lautner; Peter Lautner; Translated by Pamela Huby
R4,318 Discovery Miles 43 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Simplicius and Priscian were two of the seven Neoplatonists who left Athens when the Christian Emperor Justinian closed the pagan school there in AD 529. Their commentaries on works on sense perception, one by Aristotle and one by his successor Theophrastus, are translated here in one volume. Both commentaries give a highly Neoplatonized reading to their Aristotelian subjects and give an insight into late Neoplatonist psychology.

The Republic (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Plato The Republic (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Plato
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Symposium (Hardcover): Plato Symposium (Hardcover)
Plato
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Symposium is Plato's masterwork on the subject of love. Socrates arrives late to the party of an aristocratic friend, where it is proposed that each guest shall give a speech on the subject of love. The speeches are by turn comic, absurd and unexpectedly profound. Yet it is Socrates' speech that stands out. In it he tells of his instruction by the priestess Diotima in the mysteries of love. In properly directed love Socrates finds a discipline that draws the soul upward towards a vision of absolute beauty. Towards the end, he is interrupted by the drunk Alcibiades, who gives an unforgettable description of Socrates. This description is also, implicitly, a defence of philosophy. The consequences of pursuing philosophy are to be found, Plato suggests, in the indomitable independence and ethical qualities of a man like Socrates. The most literary and charming of Plato's works, the Symposium gives us a rare glimpse of the social life of ancient Athens, as well as insight into the character of Plato's beloved teacher.

The Ethics of Philodemus (Hardcover): Voula Tsouna The Ethics of Philodemus (Hardcover)
Voula Tsouna
R3,108 Discovery Miles 31 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Voula Tsouna presents a comprehensive study of the ethics of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who taught Virgil, influenced Horace, and was praised by Cicero. His works have only recently become available to modern readers, through the decipherment of a papyrus carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Tsouna examines Philodemus' theoretical principles in ethics, his contributions to moral psychology, his method, his conception of therapy, and his therapeutic techniques. Part I begins with an outline of the fundamental principles of Philodemus' ethics in connection with the canonical views of the Epicurean school, and highlights his own original contributions. In addition to examining central features of Philodemus' hedonism, Tsouna analyses central concepts in his moral psychology, notably: his conception of vices, which she compares with that of the virtues; his account of harmful or unacceptable emotions or passions; and his theory of corresponding acceptable emotions or "bites." She then turns to an investigation of Philodemus' conception of philosophy as medicine and of the philosopher as a kind of doctor for the soul. By surveying his methods of treatment, Tsouna determines the place that they occupy in the therapeutics of the Hellenistic era. Part II uses the theoretical framework provided in Part I to analyse Philodemus' main ethical writings. The works considered focus on certain vices and harmful emotions, including flattery, arrogance, greed, anger, and fear of death, as well as traits related to the administration of property and wealth.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics (Hardcover): Vasilis Politis Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Vasilis Politis
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


Contents:
Chapter 1: Aristotle's Metaphysics Chapter 2: Metaphysics as the science of the Ultimate explanations of all things Chapter 3: Metaphysics as the science of being Qua being, Primary being and Non-Primary being Chapter 4: The Principle of Non-contradiction Chapter 5: The search for primary being Chaper 6: The first cause of change, God Chapter 7: The criticism of Plato's theory of forms

Aristotle and Augustine on Freedom - Two Theories of Freedom, Voluntary Action and Akrasia (Hardcover): T Chappell Aristotle and Augustine on Freedom - Two Theories of Freedom, Voluntary Action and Akrasia (Hardcover)
T Chappell
R3,103 Discovery Miles 31 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Aristotle and Augustine both hold that our beliefs in freedom and voluntary action are interdependent, and that voluntary actions can only be done for the sake of good. Hence Aristotle holds that no-one acts voluntarily in pursuit of evil: such actions would be inexplicable. Augustine, agreeing that such actions are inexplicable, still insists that they occur. This is the true place in Augustine's view of his 'theory of will' - and the real point of contrast between Aristotle and Augustine.

The Phaedrus of Plato - A Translation with Notes and Dialogical Analysis (Hardcover): Kenneth Quandt The Phaedrus of Plato - A Translation with Notes and Dialogical Analysis (Hardcover)
Kenneth Quandt
R3,556 Discovery Miles 35 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This pioneering translation of Plato's Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life. In Kenneth Quandt's treatment, Plato's seminal work is allowed to create its own horizon and a new and profoundly unified interpretation emerges: Socrates's conversation with Phaedrus reaches a vision of eros that explains the paradoxes of human nature, explodes the zero-sum game of master and slave, exposes the crabbed fetishism of the written word, and releases the mind to a life of contemplation fixed in a cloudless noon.

The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle (Hardcover): Aafke... The Letter before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle (Hardcover)
Aafke M.I. Oppenraay, Resianne Fontaine
R5,482 Discovery Miles 54 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"The Letter before the Spirit" contains original articles based on the papers given at the Huygens ING (The Hague, 2009) on the importance of text editions for the study of the transmission of Aristotle s works in the Semitico-Latin translations and their commentary tradition in the medieval world. Authors underline this importance in general overviews and theoretical outlines and present their own work on various text editions, ranging from Syriac and Arabic to Hebrew and (Graeco) Latin, and from Aristotle, Avicenna and Averroes to Plotinus, Michael Scot, William of Moerbeke, Judah ha-Kohen, Barhebraeus and Albertus Magnus. Editors are further encouraged to cross boundaries between disciplines and study the translation tradition of Aristotle s works in its entirety.

Calcidius on Fate - His Doctrine and Sources (Paperback): Jan Boeft Calcidius on Fate - His Doctrine and Sources (Paperback)
Jan Boeft
R3,335 Discovery Miles 33 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature and Modern Skepticism (Hardcover): Nathan R. Colaner Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature and Modern Skepticism (Hardcover)
Nathan R. Colaner
R3,176 Discovery Miles 31 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Confronting the scientific revolution's dismissal of Aristotle's physics and epistemology, Nathan R. Colaner revives this foundational philosopher's work to expose within it the underpinnings of modern philosophers' most common intuitions about knowledge. After Aristotle's picture of reality had been judged obsolete by the physics of the scientific revolution, modern Western epistemologists fumbled along with doctrines that had little to do with everyday life. These included Descartes' notion of the evil genius, Hume's claim that we can't know anything that we are not presently observing, and Kant's rescue of knowledge in the context of idealism. In Aristotle on Knowledge of Nature and Modern Skepticism, Colaner articulates a notion of knowledge that is characteristically Aristotelian without being dependent on his metaphysics. Simultaneously, Colaner places Aristotle in dialogue with modern thinkers to create a bridge between classical and modern philosophy and reinstate Aristotle's prominence in the discipline of epistemology.

On Aristotle's "Categories" (Hardcover): Ammonius On Aristotle's "Categories" (Hardcover)
Ammonius; Volume editing by Gareth B. Matthews, S. Marc Cohen
R4,305 Discovery Miles 43 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Corollaries of Place and Time (Hardcover): Of Cilicia Simplicius Corollaries of Place and Time (Hardcover)
Of Cilicia Simplicius; Volume editing by J.O. Urmson
R4,305 Discovery Miles 43 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas.

Socrates Against Athens - Philosophy on Trial (Hardcover): James A. Colaiaco Socrates Against Athens - Philosophy on Trial (Hardcover)
James A. Colaiaco
R4,504 Discovery Miles 45 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days


As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito this book provides valuable historical and cultural context for our understanding of the trial of Socrates. The complexity and significance of the trial is illuminated through discussion of such important elements as the nature of Athenian democracy, the polis ideal, Greek shame culture, Athenian religion, civil disobedience, and Socrates' rejection of politics.
Colaiaco's approach is unique because he does justice both to Socrates and to Athens by demonstrating their individual strengths and weaknesses - and ultimately, their tragic incompatibility. Another highlight is that he provides a comprehensive picture of this conflict - essentially Socrates' radical challenge to traditional Athenian values - within the necessary historical and cultural context so that readers are better able to grasp the complexity and significance inherent to this trial.

Aristotle's Idea of the Soul (Hardcover, 1996 ed.): H. Granger Aristotle's Idea of the Soul (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
H. Granger
R2,757 Discovery Miles 27 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Aristotle's Idea of the Soul considers the nature of the soul within Aristotle's psychology and natural philosophy. A survey is provided of the contemporary interpretations of Aristotle's idea of the soul, which are prominent in the Aristotelian scholarship within the analytic tradition. These interpretations are divided into two positions: `attributivism', which considers the soul to be a property; and `substantialism', which considers it to be a thing. Taxonomies are developed for attributivism and substantialism, and the cases for each of them are considered. It is concluded that neither position may be maintained without compromise, since Aristotle ascribes to the soul features that belong exclusively to a thing and exclusively to a property. Aristotle treats the soul as a `property-thing', as a cross between a thing and a property. It is argued that Aristotle comes by this idea of the soul because his hylomorphism casts the soul as a property and his causal doctrine presents it as a causal agent and thereby as a thing.

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