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Philosophy / Ancient Philosophy

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Aristotle’s Science of Matter and Motion

Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion

by Christopher Byrne

Price: $62.00

ISBN: 9781487503963

Pub Date: July 2018

Although Aristotle’s contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years.

The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus

The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus

Fragments

Translated by C.C.W. Taylor

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781442612129

Pub Date: November 2010

A new presentation of the evidence for the thought of Leucippus and Democritus, based on the original sources. Includes the Greek text of the fragments with facing English translation, notes, commentary, and complete indexes and concordances.

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae

Fragments and Testomonia

Translated with commentary by Patricia Curd

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9781442611634

Pub Date: July 2010

This is a much-needed and highly anticipated examination of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, one of the forerunners of Greek philosophical and scientific thought.

Socrates on Trial

Socrates on Trial

A Play Based on Aristophane's Clouds and Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo Adapted for Modern Performance

by A.D. Irvine

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9780802095381

Pub Date: November 2007

Complete with production and classroom notes, this modern recasting of the Socrates story will make riveting reading both inside and outside the classroom.

Inroads

Inroads

Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy

by Murray Miles

Price: $66.00

ISBN: 9780802085313

Pub Date: December 2003

In each of its five main parts – in turn, focusing on Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Sartre – Inroads discusses, from a philosophical rather than a religious or scientific perspective, those questions that make up the common inheritance of academic philosophy and ethico-religious thought.  

Aristotle’s Theory of the Unity of Science

Aristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science

by Malcolm Wilson

Price: $117.00

ISBN: 9780802047960

Pub Date: August 2000

This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of Aristotle's theory of autonomous scientificdisciplines and the systematic connections between them: analogy, focality, and cumulation.

The Parmenides and Plato’s Late Philosophy

The Parmenides and Plato's Late Philosophy

Translation of and Commentary on the Parmenides with Interpretative Chapters on the Timaeus, the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Philebus

Translated by Robert G. Turnbull

Price: $80.00

ISBN: 9780802042361

Pub Date: March 1998

Turnbull offers a close and detailed reading of the Parmenides, using his interpretation to illuminate Plato's major late dialogues. The picture presented of Plato's later philosophy is plausible, highly interesting, and original.

Taking Life Seriously

Taking Life Seriously

A Study of the Argument of the Nicomachean Ethics

by F.E. Sparshott

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9780802071798

Pub Date: April 1996

Sparshott expounds Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as a single continuous argument, a chain of reasoned exposition on the problems of human life.

The Mind of Aristotle

The Mind of Aristotle

A Study in Philosophical Growth

by John M. Rist

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9781487585143

Pub Date: December 1989

In an effort to confront this situation John Rist attempts to chart Aristotle’s philosophical progress, using the techniques of both philology and philosophical analysis. His aim is to see where Aristotle came from philosophically and what impelled him to develop his ideas in particular directions.
Measures of Wisdom

Measures of Wisdom

The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity

by James Miller

Price: $67.00

ISBN: 9781487579173

Pub Date: December 1986

The nine chapters of the book each present a thesis on a particular author, but all function together like links in a chain. Miller has been described as ‘an historian of visions’; the book has been likened to Auerbach’s Mimesis. It is a remarkable contribution to an understanding of the complex interaction of ideas and images in time.

Interpretation of Narrative

Interpretation of Narrative

Edited by Mario Valdes and Owen Miller

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781487585112

Pub Date: December 1978

This volume the papers read at the International Colloquium on Interpretation of Narrative dealing with the methodology of text-oriented criticism and the discussion of fundamental agreement and acceptance of the hermeneutic method and reception theory.

Nature, Contemplation, and the One

Nature, Contemplation, and the One

A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

by John N. Deck

Price: $25.95

ISBN: 9781442638181

Pub Date: December 1967

Professor Deck has undertaken a reappraisal of Plotinus' thought from the standpoint of a central doctrine in the Enneads, that of nature as contemplation.

Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism

Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism

Edited by J.A. Philip

Price: $32.95

ISBN: 9781487579791

Pub Date: December 1966

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of the fifth century are cast by historians of philosophy in four important roles. Professor Philip here examines the evidence for these assertions. As a result, it is argued that substantial modifications must be made of generally accepted views of the role of Pythagoras and early Pythagoreans.

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