(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9781853264795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th July 1997
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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"Symposium" gives an account of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The other dialogues collected here under the title "The Death of Socrates" tell the tale of how Socrates was put on trial for impiety, found guilty and sentenced to death.
(Paperback)
By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781804175668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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One of Aristotles' great works The Physics is an investigation into the nature of being, of the world and its place in the universe. Although philosophically much broader it provides the foundation for the later work of Galileo, Isaac Newton, and prefigures Albert Einstein's breakthrough theories on time, space and the motion of stars.
(Paperback)
By: Plato
ISBN: 9781804177938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2024
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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Much of traditional Western thought began in Antiquity, flowing from the Platonic dialogues, The Republic being the most significant. Plato expresses the political, ethical and societal framework for the nature of the ideal state and defines the notion of justice. This new, accessible edition is carefully edited for the modern audience.
(Hardback)
By: Andrea Kirk Assaf
ISBN: 9780008714154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple revivals right up to the modern day.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
ISBN: 9781472136992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A new translation of two of Plato's dialogues, Timaios and Kritias, with commentary and critical discussion including an exploration of how the tale of Atlantis has been interpreted throughout history.
(Paperback, 2)
By: Patricia Curd
ISBN: 9781603843058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A study of the Presocratics and Sophists. It offers a selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Habinek
ISBN: 9780141392646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Dobbin
ISBN: 9780241251461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'It's you who are the dogs...'
(Paperback)
By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781647920890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
ISBN: 9780691020358
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1986
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The aim of this book is to ask through a study of one of his most complicated treatises on explanation, how far, and in what sense, the demands of the 'scientific person' are Aristotle's.
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By: Epicurus
ISBN: 9780241473269
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9780691016504
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 1984
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents the works of Aristotle accessible to English speaking readers.
(Hardback, Revised edition)
By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9780691016511
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 1984
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a standard English version of Aristotle. This work contains the substance of the original translation.
(Paperback, Second Edition,2)
By: Augustine
ISBN: 9780872208162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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The second Hackett edition of the Sheed translation, a classic in its own right, offers a wealth of notes on philosophical, theological, historical, and liturgical issues raised by the Confessions, as well as paragraph numbers of the Latin critical edition, and a thorough index.
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By: Seneca
ISBN: 9780140446791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 29th May 1997
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection of dialogues and letters from one of the most influential masters of Latin prose. This text includes "Consolation to Helvia" written to Seneca's mother to soothe the pain of separation, and the dialogues of "On the Shortness of Life", and "On Tranquility of Mind".
(Paperback)
By: Epictetus
ISBN: 9780140449464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. Together with the "Enchiridion", a manual of his main ideas, this book argues that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not.
(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Barnes
ISBN: 9780140448153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Collects works that form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build.
(Paperback)
By: Scott Aikin
ISBN: 9781350009516
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Martin Heidegger
ISBN: 9780826462411
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Aims to present an elucidation of the work of Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher as the author of "On Nature", the first sustained work of Greek prose. This book comprises two lecture courses delivered by the author at the University of Freiburg during the summers of 1943 and 1944.
(Hardback)
By: M. D. Usher
ISBN: 9780691211749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"An assemblage of selections from classical literature that celebrate country living-what Roman authors called res rusticate"--
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By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
ISBN: 9780691177199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Ancient wisdom for modern readers"--Page facing title page.
(Paperback)
By: Epictetus
ISBN: 9780241475263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Horace
ISBN: 9780691182520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Epictetus
ISBN: 9780691177717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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