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Archery Metaphor and Ritual in Early Confucian Texts explores the significance of archery as ritual practice and image source in classical Confucian texts. Archery was one of the six traditional art……続きを見る

Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition consists of twelve essays originally published between 2006 and 2015, dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieva……続きを見る

Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically, Mary Margaret McCabe argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something an……続きを見る

In Paul and Image, Philip Erwin challenges conventional interpretations of 1 Corinthians that tend to overlook the significance of ancient Roman visual culture in framing and posing exegetical quest……続きを見る

A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because th……続きを見る

Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence o……続きを見る

STOICISM QUOTES Inside this book, you will find 365 stoic quotes, attributed to a wide variety of people who embody stoic principles and philosophy. This includes the ancient and original stoics, p……続きを見る

Are you inspired to learn about the ancient philosophy of Stoicism? Are you wondering where is the best place to begin? You’ve tried all the guides already available online on this subject but you a……続きを見る

Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy. This is the first interpretive study of shared themes and dialogues between late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century experts on classi……続きを見る

This book deals with aspects of legal education and legal traditions. Part I includes chapters on teaching Law of the Sea, legal ethics and educating lawyers as ‘transaction cost engineers’ as well ……続きを見る

This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, ‘make the familiar strange’. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar s……続きを見る

Part of the Hero Classics series “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” A collection of personal writings covering an array of topics. Mar……続きを見る

Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discourse of pride from two distinct complementary perspec……続きを見る

This is a 2-book combo, which has the following titles: Book 1: In this convenient guide, several ancient, famous philosophers will be covered, so you may get a better understanding of the ancestors……続きを見る

This is a 3-book bundle, which addresses various subtopics, including but not limited to these: Book 1: In this convenient guide, several ancient, famous philosophers will be covered, so you may get……続きを見る

Aristotle’s much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. The late Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it ane……続きを見る

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their lite……続きを見る

'Moral character, so to say, constitutes the most effective means of proof.' In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life. Many writers attempted to provide manuals to help improve d……続きを見る

With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling f……続きを見る

THIRUVARUTPAYAN OF UMAPATHI SIVACHARYA Translated with Notes and Introduction by J. M. Nallaswami Pillai first published in 1896. The Vedas and the Sivagamas in Sanskrit and the Tirumurais and the S……続きを見る

This Element defends an interpretation of Plato's Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry. The dialogue countenances and rejects two models of poetic reception, the exp……続きを見る

El trayecto histórico-conceptual que proponen estas páginas pone de manifiesto que la ética, la retórica y el arte son conceptos claves para dar respuesta a la pregunta sobre cómo educar al ciudadan……続きを見る

Edwin Hartman offers an account of his intellectual journey from Aristotle to organization theory to business ethics to an Aristotelian approach to business ethics. Aristotle’s work in metaphysics a……続きを見る

In this book, Paul Crittenden offers a critical guide to the problematic origins of biblical teaching about the afterlife and the way in which it was subsequently developed by Church authorities and……続きを見る

Great question, and this book holds the answer! People shape history. The decisions of key players triggered events that affected millions of people, either for the better or for the worst. In this ……続きを見る

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine. It examines how th……続きを見る

Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a re……続きを見る

This is the first systematic analysis of Aristotle's concept of lexis. Ana Kotarcic argues that it should be approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language as a system, t……続きを見る

Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle. In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexi……続きを見る

Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contempo……続きを見る