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Five Dialogues
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Plato
This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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Great Dialogues of Plato
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Plato wrote approximately 25 dialogues--intellectual debates on such topics as law, virtue, love, and beauty--which are normally divided into three periods: those featuring Socrates, those in which the words of Socrates are most likely Plato's own, and the last several written during Plato's later years. This translation includes the complete ...
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Complete Works
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Plato, John M Cooper (Editor), D S Hutchinson (Adapted by)
Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars -- many commissioned especially for this volume -- are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning ...
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On the Good Life
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant (Introduction by)
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and ...
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The trial of Socrates
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I F Stone
Stone set out to discover how a so-called "free" society, such as existed in Athens, could try and condemn to death its most renowned philosopher. He examines what Plato does not tell us - the Athenian side of the story - to see whether he can mitigate the city's crime and thereby remove some of the stigma the trial left on democracy and on Athens ...
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Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy
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George G James
An attempt to show that the true authors of Greek Philosophy were not the Greeks, but the peoples of Egypt
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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Karen Armstrong
From one of the world's leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling "A History of God" comes a major new work: a chronicle of the ninth century BCE, when the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity into the ...
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Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Aristotle
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S Marc Cohen
The rich selection of superbly translated and edited Pre-Socratic fragments and testimonies, dialogues of Plato, and selections from Aristotle that has made "Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy", the pre-eminent anthology for the teaching of ancient Greek philosophy is now even richer: G M A Grube's translation of Plato's "Phaedo" and "Alexander ...
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What is Ancient Philosophy?
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Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase (Translator)
Essentially a survey of ancient thought, Hadot's accessible text introduces philosophy as it was practiced by the likes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Hadot's focus on practice places each thinker in a living context, showing how the ancients tried to live in accordance with their theories.
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The Power of Art
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Simon Schama
"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the ...
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On the nature of the universe
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Lucretius' poem On the Nature of the Universe combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and ...
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Backgrounds of Early Christianity
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Everett Ferguson
Widely used as a textbook since its publication in 1987, this work provides an analytical and systematic introduction to the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, literary, and religious backgrounds necessary for a historical understanding of the New Testament in the early church.
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Early Greek Philosophy
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Jonathan Barnes (Editor)
The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno ...
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The Presocratics
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Philip Wheelwright
Library of Liberal Arts title.
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Lectures on Ancient Philosophy: Companion to the Secret Teachings of All Ages
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Manley P Hall, Howard W Wookey (Illustrator)
Complete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, "The Secret Teachings of All Ages." In "Lectures on Ancient Philosophy," Manly P. Hall expands on the philosophical, metaphysical, and cosmological themes introduced in his classic work, "The Secret Teachings of All ...
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Stolen Legacy
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George G M James
Challenging the notion that civilisation started in Greece, this uncompromising classic attempts to prove that the true authors of Greek philosophy were not Greeks but Egyptians. The text asserts that the praise and honour blindly given to the Greeks for centuries rightfully belong to the people of Africa, and argues that the theft of this great ...
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Greek philosophy, Thales to Aristotle
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Reginald E. Allen (Editor)
Offers an introduction to the pre-Socratics, Plato and Aristotle. Emphasizing metaphysics and epistemology as the foci of Greek philosophy, this edition nevertheless has expanded coverage of Greek science and mathematics.
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Before & After Socrates
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Francis MacDonald Cornford
...a brilliant commentary on the Greek mind and its attitude to life.
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Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
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Sophocles
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, which include suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage ...
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History of Philosophy Volume 3
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Frederick Copleston
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series ...
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On the nature of things
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, "De Rerum Natura" ("On the Nature of Things"). In six books compounded of solid reasoning, brilliant imagination, and noble poetry, he expounds the scientific theories of the Greek ...
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Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle
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Jason Lewis Saunders (Editor)
Offering a sample of the surviving works of philosophers of the Hellenistic Age such as Lucretius, Epicurus, and Philo of Alexandria, this text shows the influence of Greek philosophy on the formative years of Christianity, as well as the early Christians' distrust of these ideas.
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The Works of Plato
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Plato
Introduction, by Irwin Edman, The Jowett Translation
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Classical Thought: History of Western Philosophy 1
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Terence H Irwin
Spanning over a thousand years from Homer to Saint Augustine, Classical Thought encompasses a vast range of material in succinct style, while remaining clear and lucid even to those with no philosophical or Classical background The major philosophers and philosophical schools are examined-the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, ...
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Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings
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Brad Inwood
This revised edition of "Hellenistic Philosophy" offers an English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Anus Didysmus, new sources on Epicureanism, Stocism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero, and a fuller presentation of papyrological evidence.
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