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Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum, On Nature XXV. The aim of this boo……続きを見る

How can we achieve total personal freedom when we have so many obligations and so many demands on our time? Is personal freedom even possible? "Yes, it is possible," said the Stoics and gave us a bl……続きを見る

Recent work on the Platonic notion of the Guardian has focused on the female Guardian, or “Philosopher Queen,” but mainly insofar as the idea is problematic. Okin, Saxonhouse, and others have tried ……続きを見る

Eva Brann, who has taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the wor……続きを見る

In this issue of the Digest, we explore politics, human relationships, and our responsibilities as mystics and Citizens of the World from a Cosmic perspective. 続きを見る

This title was first published in 2002.Origen (AD 185 - 254) is regarded as one of the figures chiefly responsible for the contamination of biblical theology with pagan philosophy in the early churc……続きを見る

The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life offers an original interpretation of Epictetus’s ethics and how he bases his ethics on an appeal to our roles in life. Epictetus believes that……続きを見る

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. While there have been numerous treatments of properties……続きを見る

In Plato’s Apology of Socrates we see a philosopher in collision with his societyーa society he nonetheless claims to have benefited through his philosophic activity. It has often been asked why dem……続きを見る

There have been many books on the origin of astronomy some good and some very poorly address the issues of ancient mans interests in the stars. The ancient Sumer and Egyptian notions of music mostly……続きを見る

Plotinus, the greatest philosopher of Late Antiquity, discusses at length a first principle of reality - the One - which, he tells us, cannot be expressed in words or grasped in thought. How and why……続きを見る

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria. Ammonius……続きを見る

First published in 1991, The Greatest Happiness Principle traces the history of the theory of utility, starting with the Bible, and running through Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. It goes on to disc……続きを見る

„Zaginiony świat gigantów” to książka będąca rezultatem wieloletniej pracy archeologa i badacza – Jonathana Graya. Autor przedstawili w niej zebrane materiały archeologiczne, na podstawie których sk……続きを見る

S'immagini un Software capace di digitalizzare l'intero Poema della Natura di Parmenide e soprattutto un Supercomputer già posthuman potenzialmente con le sue combinatorie di calcolo (superiore a qu……続きを見る

Difficile immaginare che l’esperienza del vino si possa risolvere nell’incontro tra la particella minuta e gli scandali imprevedibili della perdita di controllo. La verità armonica abbraccia gli uni……続きを見る

l taoismo da sempre ha avuto una grande attenzione per la salute psicoficica e per le tecniche di guarigione. .I tre tesori sono da coltivare per ottenere la pienezza della vita sono: •Corpo o vital……続きを見る

Lo sguardo verso il cielo, lo sguardo dentro l'uomo. E' tutta qui la cifra di questo affascinante percorso nel passato da Talete a Tommaso d'Aquino. Un viaggio indietro fino alle origini del pensier……続きを見る

Se alcuno è poco intelligente a credere incivilmente che non sia peccato la brama di commettere un omicidio, egli non peccherà col bramare di commetterlo (Jacobus Platelius pag. 119). I fanciulli ca……続きを見る

La filosofia greca può aiutare a leggere e a riflettere sugli avvenimenti del proprio presente? Forse la filosofia si nasconde davvero nelle pieghe della vita e i primi filosofi lo dimostrano propri……続きを見る

QUESTO LIBRO E' A LAYOUT FISSO Questo libro nasce alla fine di un percorso di ricerca personale sul senso e sulla stessa ragion d’essere della riflessione filosofica, così come essa si è svolta in t……続きを見る

This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to in……続きを見る

Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophers Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? W……続きを見る

„Rajski ptak” – to powieść na temat tworzenia sztuki teatralnej. Autor pisał powieści obyczajowe, a także książki dla dzieci np.: W kraju orangutanów i rajskich ptaków z 1922, Na polskiej fali z 192……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, i……続きを見る

The purpose of this book, first published in 1957, is to make a critical analysis of the controversial Socratic problem. The Socratic issue owes its paramount difficulty not only to the status of av……続きを見る

This ground-breaking study conveys the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism. Its account of 'exemplary ethics' explores how and what Roma……続きを見る

Beginning with the earliest strata of Indian philosophy, this book uncovers a distinct tradition of skepticism in Indian philosophy through a study of the “three pillars” of Indian skepticism near t……続きを見る

Philo of Alexandria’s Ethical Discourse: Living in the Power of Piety proposes a fresh approach to better understand Philo’s ethics exploring the virtue of piety. In this exceptionally well-research……続きを見る

Volume 1 of this new grammatical reader on the first 12 chapters of Book 1 of Plato’s Republic is the most thorough of available resources, designed for students who have only basic skills as well a……続きを見る