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The world's great philosophers have always wrestled with the crucial questions about human nature and the world we live in: How should we live our lives? What is knowledge? How should society be org……続きを見る

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates and a small group of sophists (and other guests) at a dinner gathering. Socrates d……続きを見る

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. In 399 BC Socrates was prosecuted,……続きを見る

Plato's Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman, not only do we see re……続きを見る

Euthyphro, by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects such as the meaning of……続きを見る

The Apology is Plato’s account of Socrates defense speech at his trial in which he exposes the false accusations and justifies his words and actions as the divine mission he took upon visiting the O……続きを見る

外国经典原著作品，包括最具代表性的文学大师和最有影响的代表作品 続きを見る

Phaedo, also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is deservedly one of the best known works of Greek literature, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialo……続きを見る

Meno is a Socratic dialogue scripted by Plato. It appears to attempt to determine the definition of virtue. The first part of the work is written in the Socratic dialectical style and Meno is reduce……続きを見る

Durante años hemos leído, como si fueran la transcripción fiel de su palabra, las conocidas conferencias pronunciadas por Michel Foucault en 1983 en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. Pero se……続きを見る

Theaetetus, a young disciple of the famous geometrician Theodorus, is brought back to Athens by the army deadly wounded from the battle of Corinth. As he is approaching death he turns to philosophy,……続きを見る

In the final moments of his life, Socrates discusses with a group of friends the nature of death and the immortality of the soul. Based on previous philosophies he argues that the circle of nature i……続きを見る

In this dialogue Socrates is portrayed by Plato as the patient and virtuous citizen who is willing to give his life in obedience to the laws of the State. Crito, an old friend of Socrates, visits hi……続きを見る

This dialogue is Plato’s treatise on natural philosophy. Integrating Pre-Socratic thought with his own theory of ideas and metaphysics, he attempts to bring everything that exists under reason; from……続きを見る

Discourses in praise of Eros, translated as love, are spoken by Socrates and other Athenians at a banquet hosted by Agathon. Love is seen as an aspect of the divine running through all nature and be……続きを見る

Andrew Lang was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at ……続きを見る

According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate a form of rule. In the growth of plants, the perceptual capacities and movement of animals, and the impulse that motivat……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la peau d'un empereur faisant appel au stoïcisme pour gérer son Empire ! "On sent en soi-même un plaisir secret lorsqu'on parle de cet empereur ; on ne peut lire sa vie sans une espèc……続きを見る

This book offers a systematic and radical introduction to the Buddhist roots of Pātañjala-yoga, or the Yoga system of Patañjali. By examining each of 195 aphorisms (sūtras) of the Yogasūtra and disc……続きを見る

Lucretius' Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura ('On the Nature of Things'), written in the middle of the first century BC, made a fundamental and lasting contribution to the language of Latin philosophy.……続きを見る

Do you feel lost when it comes to asking witty, wise, or deep questions? Would you like to connect with people spontaneously and be more persuasive? If you want to understand people better, be value……続きを見る

Using The Cave as a key to PlatoA's political thought, Huard debunks conventional interpretations, conservative and progressive, and unfolds Plato's notions about the structure of the world, his ide……続きを見る

La sabiduría de la Antigua Roma recoge una esplendorosa compilación de máximas de autores como Lucrecio, Virgilio y Horacio (presentes aquí por su carácter epicúreo) o Persio, Séneca, Epicteto, Juve……続きを見る

Plato's Symposium depicts a group of men giving a series of speeches about the nature of love, with themes ranging from religion and metaphysics to medicine and pregnancy. The lone woman in the room……続きを見る

Much of the cultural production of the ancient world, east and west, was based on the idea of reflecting aspects of the divine in human life and thought. Many social structures and institutions were……続きを見る

El Kybalión es un libro publicado en 1908 que resume las enseñanzas del hermetismo, también conocidos como los siete principios del hermetismo. Su autoría se atribuye a un grupo anónimo de personas ……続きを見る

For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible. In The Parmenidean Ascent, Michael Della Rocca aims to revive this controversial approach on……続きを見る

John T. Hogan’s The Tragedy of the Athenian Ideal in Thucydides and Plato assesses the roles of Pericles, Alcibiades, and Nicias in Athens’ defeat in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War. Comparing Thucydi……続きを見る

The description for this book, Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, will be forthcoming. 続きを見る

Questo trattato naturalistico, Naturalis historia il titolo originale, fu scritto in forma enciclopedica da Plinio il Vecchio nel 77 d.c. Successivamente il suo autore lo avrebbe ampliato e corretto……続きを見る