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This book traces the long-term genesis of the sixth-century Roman legal penalty of forced monastic penance. The late antique evidence on this penal institution runs counter to a scholarly consensus ……続きを見る

Against the Men of the Crowd, the title essay in this collection, presents a summary of the full frontal attack which Epicurus launched on the religions and the virtues of the leaders of the Men of ……続きを見る

Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. Thi……続きを見る

Les études ici réunies (quatre articles publiés entre 1992 et 1998 et trois chapitres inédits) ont pour but d’éclairer le rapport de l’homme au monde selon Plotin. Qu’en est-il de la Terre, du langa……続きを見る

This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is i……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Schriften zur Geschichte der Philosophie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Vorsokratis……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Die Ethik: Gesammelte Schriften (Vom höchsten Gut und vom größten Übel + Von den Pflichten + Cato oder Von dem Greisenalter + Lälius oder von der Freundschaft)" ist mit einem detailli……続きを見る

Across the span of recorded history, at the birth of writing and civilization, there was the Epic of Gilgamesh. This seminal tale of gods, kings, battles, friendship, loss, the fear of death, the se……続きを見る

Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects seventy-six works - from Plato, Descartes and Witt……続きを見る

Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he will unfold ……続きを見る

This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporar……続きを見る

Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC ……続きを見る

In the last fifty years the field of Late Antiquity has advanced significantly. Today we have a picture of this period that is more precise and accurate than before. However, the study of one of the……続きを見る

The ancient wisdom condensed into this small book. Hermetic teaching of Thoth, the Egyptian god of Wisdom. This is an authentic version of Dr. Doreal translation. There are many biased and manipulat……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915),……続きを見る

This new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works. Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the……続きを見る

This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the tw……続きを見る

An introduction to Epicurus, Philosopher of Happiness and Freedom 続きを見る

Theokrasis é um conjunto de ensaios teológico-filosóficos escritos por Leila Victoria de Oliveira. Nele influências que vão desde o platonismo tardio até os mais recentes desenvolvimentos do realism……続きを見る

The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with t……続きを見る

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosoph……続きを見る

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve a……続きを見る

This study gives a comprehensive and readable account of the principal doctrines of the Stoics, Epicureans and various sceptical traditions from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to about 2……続きを見る

This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomeno……続きを見る

Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts……続きを見る

Porphyry, a native of Phoenicia educated in Athens and Rome during the third century AD, was one of the most important Platonic philosophers of his age. In this book, Professor Johnson rejects the p……続きを見る

The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed by Archimedes and the many solutions offered. In……続きを見る

This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, ……続きを見る

The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics……続きを見る

Presenting an ancient teaching passed down from teacher to student for thousands of years, the author provides the science and scriptural evidence regarding death and what awaits us after death. Thi……続きを見る