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The Sophists

The Sophists

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Richard McKirahan
July 23, 2024

This book offers a new way of looking at the 5th century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and presenting them as individuals rather than a “movement”, each with his own speciality and personality as revealed through the scant surviving evidence. It provides ...

The Philosophy of Early Christianity

The Philosophy of Early Christianity

2nd Edition

By George Karamanolis
May 31, 2021

This new edition introduces the reader to the philosophy of early Christianity in the second to fourth centuries AD, and contextualizes the philosophical contributions of early Christians in the framework of the ancient philosophical debates. It examines the first attempts of Christian ...

Plato

Plato

1st Edition

By Andrew Mason
May 27, 2016

Plato (c.428-347 BCE) stands at the beginning of many debates that have continued throughout the history of philosophy. His literary career spanned fifty years and the influence of his ideas and those of his followers pervaded philosophy throughout antiquity. Andrew Mason's lucid and engaging ...

Confucianism

Confucianism

1st Edition

By Paul Goldin
July 22, 2015

"Confucianism" presents the history and salient tenets of Confucian thought, and discusses its viability, from both a social and a philosophical point of view, in the modern world. Despite most of the major Confucian texts having been translated into English, there remains a surprising lack of ...

The Peripatetics Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE

The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE

1st Edition

By Han Baltussen
December 20, 2016

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 of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or whether there was a ...

The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle

The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle

1st Edition

By Miira Tuominen
March 10, 2015

In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these commentaries were understood chiefly as sources of information for the masters - Plato and Aristotle -...

Cynics

Cynics

1st Edition

By William Desmond
December 05, 2014

Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of ...

Epicureanism

Epicureanism

1st Edition

By Tim O'Keefe
December 05, 2014

The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (century 341-270 BCE) it was characterized by an empiricist epistemology and a hedonistic ethics. This new introduction to Epicurus offers readers clear exposition of the ...

Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism

1st Edition

By Pauliina Remes
December 05, 2014

Although Neoplatonism has long been studied by classicists, until recently most philosophers saw the ideas of Plotinus et al as a lot of religious/magical mumbo-jumbo. Recent work however has provided a new perspective on the philosophical issues in Neoplatonism and Pauliina Remes new introduction ...

Presocratics

Presocratics

1st Edition

By James Warren
December 05, 2014

The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account ...

Indian Buddhist Philosophy

Indian Buddhist Philosophy

1st Edition

By Amber Carpenter
August 08, 2014

Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of ...

Ancient Scepticism

Ancient Scepticism

1st Edition

By Harald Thorsrud
November 01, 2008

Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an engaging, rigorous introduction to the arguments...

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