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La Historia de la Filosofía es la historia de las evoluciones del espíritu humano en su porción más activa, más agitada, más libre. Este tomito completa el Curso de Filosofía elemental. Difícilmente……続きを見る

This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Pla……続きを見る

This is a study about the meaning of happiness (εὐδαιμονία) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (EN). It is argued that εὐδαιμονία in EN means actuality, and it has to be interpreted through the lense……続きを見る

Many contemporary writers misunderstand early Christian views on philosophy because they identify the critical stances of the ante-Nicene fathers toward specific pagan philosophical schools with a g……続きを見る

La storia dei proverbi è più antica di qualsivoglia, primordiale forma di scrittura, anzi: proprio per la sua capacità di restare impresso, ora come monito, ora come insegnamento, il proverbio può c……続きを見る

This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5, which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Georgia Tsouni challenges pre……続きを見る

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his po……続きを見る

Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sa……続きを見る

Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety - gospels, letters and visions - this firstcentury collection of texts keeps always at its……続きを見る

Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by……続きを見る

US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to……続きを見る

Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has……続きを見る

Veinticinco siglos después de su creación, las tragedias de Esquilo, Sófocles y Eurípides continúan representándose en todo Occidente, siguen siendo objeto de relecturas y se demuestran actuales. Gé……続きを見る

From the earliest centuries of the church, asceticism and the contemplative life have been profoundly important aspects of western Christianity. And in assessing the glories of western civilization,……続きを見る

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) introduced Romans to the major schools of Greek philosophy, forging a Latin conceptual vocabulary that was entirely new. But for all the sophistication of his thin……続きを見る

Hero and Leander are the protagonists in a classical tale of epic but tragic love. Hero lives secluded in a tower on the European shore of the Hellespont, and Leander on the opposite side of the pas……続きを見る

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively ……続きを見る

Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy. Ca……続きを見る

Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and ……続きを見る

What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central para……続きを見る

Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings ……続きを見る

I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem ……続きを見る

Eighteen essays re examine Ficino’s life and work focusing on three essential aspects: his significance in his own times, his spreading influence throughout Europe and over subsequent centuries in m……続きを見る

Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both su……続きを見る

Plato uses a logic without defining or naming it, somewhat as verbs are used in daily life without saying “verbs” or defining them. Linguists may define them. Similarly, Plato’s Logic identifies Pla……続きを見る

I Padri della Chiesa raccontano che Gesù di Nazareth è venuto tra gli uomini in figura “vile e dispregevole”, per sancire il primato della bontà sulla bellezza, dell’etica sull’estetica. Eppure, all……続きを見る

This volume is the first in English to provide a full, systematic investigation into Aristotle's criticisms of earlier Greek theories of the soul from the perspective of his theory of scientific exp……続きを見る

Les Caractères ou les Mœurs de ce siècle est une œuvre écrite par Jean de La Bruyère et dont la première édition paraît en 1688. 続きを見る

What was it like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism? This important volume brings together for the first time a selection of Richard Bett's essays on ancient Pyrrhonism, allowing readers ……続きを見る

Epikur zählt zu den wichtigsten ?Glücksphilosophen? der Antike. Ein glückliches Leben erreiche man dadurch, sich maßvoll und bescheiden der schönen Dinge des Lebens zu erfreuen. Epikur, griechischer……続きを見る