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Edward Urwick’s original work draws upon Plato’s best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato’s teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to ……続きを見る

«То и дело можно наблюдать, как она всё время с кем-то знакомится, сходится, взаимодействует, встречается, участвует в каких-то собраниях, заседаниях, ярмарках, выставках, ассамблеях, присутствует н……続きを見る

Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a mode……続きを見る

Since the main purpose of the first book of my trilogy entitled "The True Images, Numbers and Ideas of the Circular Changes" is to disclose the imagery of Zhou Yi's body text from the point of divin……続きを見る

Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire ……続きを見る

The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continue……続きを見る

As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his app……続きを見る

A Penguin Great Ideas edition of timeless Stoic philosophy in practical aphorisms that have inspired luminaries like The Daily Stoic author Ryan Holiday, and influenced countless others to use philo……続きを見る

A second Epicurean poem for children of all ages, by the author of "Thus Spake Catius' Cat." This work, like the former aims to explain basic principles of Epicurean theory and practice in a form th……続きを見る

This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roma……続きを見る

Christianity as Mystical Fact was the title given by the author to this work, when, eight years ago, he gathered into it the substance of lectures delivered by him in 1902. The title indicated the s……続きを見る

In the long history of philosophy and literature, few have been so widely read and admired as the great thinkers of Greece and Rome. For modern audiences, this eBook bundleーwhich collects the Moder……続きを見る

Philosophy in Late Antiquity provides an essential new introduction to the key ideas of the Neoplatonists, which affected approaches to Plato as late as the nineteenth century. Andrew Smith shows ho……続きを見る

Didn't take Classics at school? Or maybe you've forgotten most of what you once knew? To save you looking it up, Classics is the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and takes in a……続きを見る

Lysimachus, the son of Aristides the Just, and Melesias, the son of the elder Thucydides, two aged men who live together, are desirous of educating their sons in the best manner. Their own education……続きを見る

Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential R……続きを見る

This is the first comprehensive exploration of ancient and modern tyranny in the history of political thought. Waller R. Newell argues that modern tyranny and statecraft differ fundamentally from th……続きを見る

Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy……続きを見る

Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as god, cause and effect, whole and……続きを見る

The unforeseeably complex socio-economic and environmental challenges of the 21st century must be tackled by placing faith in the power of mankind to integrate established wisdom and new knowledge, ……続きを見る

In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Plato and Aristotle about the practice, study and, above all, the purpose of politics. The first scholar to place Aristotle's Politics in sustaine……続きを見る

"Образ - основа всего сущего" (Лао Цзы, "Дао Дэ Цзин" 4 чжан") Образы – это язык которым записано «программное обеспечение» человека. Именно языком образов зафиксирована информация в древнем источни……続きを見る

Aristotle's Ethics develops a complex theory of the qualities which make for a good human being and for several decades there has been intense discussion about whether Aristotle's theory of voluntar……続きを見る

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known ……続きを見る

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and chronologically, making it easier to access individual books. This coll……続きを見る

Humanity's survival hinges on IMMEDIATE CHANGE - one person at a time! Kindness, caring, and fairness – harmlessly – in one's thoughts, words, and actions are the only way to PEACE and HARMONY world……続きを見る

Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discus……続きを見る

In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study o……続きを見る

This eBook contains Henry Cary's classic translation into English of three of Plato's dialogues on the philosophies of Socrates: the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo. 続きを見る

Confuciusー“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopherーoriginated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over m……続きを見る