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Estudiemos algo para el que estudia, escribamos para el que escribe. En este libro se presentan dos textos de Quevedo sobre la filosofía estoica : La Doctrina Estoica y Defensa de Epicuro. A continu……続きを見る

L’ouvrage tout récent dont nous présentons la traduction au public français a un double intérêt, et d’abord celui d’être une excellente monographie de Hume. Par des citations bien choisies, par de n……続きを見る

The Hellenistic period was an era of literary canons, of privileged texts and collections. One of the most stable of these consisted of the nine (rarely ten) lyric poets: whether the selection was b……続きを見る

What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers, but, as this book shows, the question was already debated in antiquity by luminar……続きを見る

Written between 56 and 64 CE, "On Benefits" is a treatise addressed to Seneca’s close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca’s works dealing with a single subject ーhow to give and receive……続きを見る

A tale of climbing mountains to escape drugs, gods, and ghosts. A tale of conversing with the Elder Race while trying to escape yourself, completely giving up on Life and Love. A tale of the Dark Pa……続きを見る

A new illustrated edition of Sun Tzu's classic ancient Chinese meditation on military strategy and human psychology, with a new commentary that highlight its continued relevance for modern readers. ……続きを見る

"On Generation and Corruption" (also known as "On Coming to Be and Passing Away") is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although not necessarily ……続きを見る

Friedrich Nietzsche es el pensador crítico por antonomasia. Se enfrentó a la cultura de su época, atacó de forma violenta la moral tradicional y llegó a predicar la muerte de Dios. Construyó una fil……続きを見る

Sócrates no escribió nada, ni fundó ninguna escuela, ni desarrolló teorías concretas. Sin embargo, su figura es una de las más influyentes de la historia del pensamiento y se ha convertido en símbol……続きを見る

+ de 1500 Citations et Proverbes pour réfléchir sur la vie ! Des citations philosophiques, des proverbes intéressants, des pensées positives… Découvrez entre autre des citations de Paulo Coelho, Gan……続きを見る

Vision, value, growth and well-branded acumen have, according to Ole Bentzen, never been more important than now where digitalization sets the agenda in the world of business. Nine Squares is a guid……続きを見る

Sense and Sensibilia is one of the short treatises by Aristotle that make up the Parva Naturalia. 続きを見る

This book is a philosophical study of two major thinkers who span the period of late antiquity. While Plotinus stands at the beginning of its philosophical tradition, setting the themes for debate a……続きを見る

This book argues for a new approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world. Despite the intense cross-cultural interactions which characterised the period after Alexander, studies of '……続きを見る

Political Philosophy In the Moment uncovers the political power of narrative by both telling and explaining the stories that frame our ability to be "in the moment." In a series of eleven short stor……続きを見る

"The Satires" (Latin: Satirae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written by the Roman poet, Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameters, the Satires explore the secrets of human happiness a……続きを見る

"The Satires" (Latin: Satirae or Sermones) is a collection of satirical poems written by the Roman poet, Horace. Composed in dactylic hexameters, the Satires explore the secrets of human happiness a……続きを見る

This volume covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of the ancient Guodian bamboo manuscripts (郭店楚簡) which were disentombed in the Guodian Village in Hubei Pr……続きを見る

The original title of this beautiful Gnostic Poem has been lost, and it is now generally referred to as The Hymn of the Soul. Preuschen, however, calls it The Song of Deliverance (Das Lied von der E……続きを見る

Published in 1987: The following essays form, as their title-page shows, only the first half of a collection which the writer hopes to complete in the course of a few months. Even when completed the……続きを見る

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17) was a Roman poet, sometimes called the first great poet of the Roman Empire, who wrote the literary masterpiece, "Metamorphoses." Written in Latin, "Metamorp……続きを見る

Based on the various translations I have done of the sthotrams, mantras, Tantras, Upanishads etc., I find our understanding of Shiva is quite different from what is described in these literatures. T……続きを見る

This is the first collection of essays devoted specifically to the nature and significance of Aristotle's anthropological philosophy, covering the full range of his ethical, metaphysical and biologi……続きを見る

The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygien……続きを見る

Some of the most provocative questions confronting philosophers in Africa are grounded in the historical memory of conquest and the peripheralisation the continent. Mungwini offers a critical recons……続きを見る

Many contemporary philosophers develop political theories in an attempt to justify the societies that we currently live in. But the distribution of wealth in our societies today is becoming ever mor……続きを見る

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory problem of species variation to which Darwinian theory wa……続きを見る

"On the Nature of Things" is a first-century BC long didactic poem written in Latin as "De rerum natura" by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius that sets forth the physical theory of the Greek ……続きを見る

Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical materi……続きを見る