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By: Porphyry

ISBN: 9781472557872
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the embryo, or of the whole world


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By: Porphyry

ISBN: 9780715638583
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the embryo, or of the whole world


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By: Pamela Huby

ISBN: 9781472584137
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: C.E.W. Steel

ISBN: 9781472558473
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Originally published: London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1997.


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By: A.A. Long

ISBN: 9780485121285
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Greek Stoics made notable contributions to logic, metaphysics, theory of knowledge and ethics. This volume offers a detailed analysis of theories which exhibit the Stoics' philosophical significance and originality.


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By: Proclus

ISBN: 9780691020891
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An English translation of a major work by the great Neoplatonist philosopher, whose commentary greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. It comprises a full account of Proclus's own metaphysical system, disguised in the form of commentary.


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By: Proclus

ISBN: 9780691180403
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Proclus

ISBN: 9780691020907
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The description for this book, Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements, will be forthcoming.


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By: Proclus

ISBN: 9781472558190
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The volumes of ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle, constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into English or other European languages. "Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Cratylus" is only ancient commentary on this work to have come down to us. This work consists of excerpts from Proclus' commentary.


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By: Carlos Steel

ISBN: 9781472558152
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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15,000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constitute one of the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings. This work looks at Proclus' reply, which is one of the remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. This work is an English translation that brings the arguments he formulates.


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By: Carlos Steel

ISBN: 9781472557391
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Proclus' "On the Existence of Evils" is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world


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By: Carlos Steel

ISBN: 9781472557940
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a path breaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English.


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By: Carlos Steel

ISBN: 9780715639245
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series, a pathbreaking enterprise which for the first time translates the commentaries of the Neoplatonic commentators on the works of Aristotle into English.


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By: David Lawrence Levine

ISBN: 9781498501767
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, the greatest sickness of the soul. The Charmides of Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athenss most notorious tyrants, Critias, and looks deeply into its dialectical opposite, the soul and cognitive structure of Socrates.


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By: David Lawrence Levine

ISBN: 9781498501781
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, the greatest sickness of the soul. The Charmides of Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of one of Athenss most notorious tyrants, Critias, and looks deeply into its dialectical opposite, the soul and cognitive structure of Socrates.


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By: John M. Cooper

ISBN: 9780691159706
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life - and not simply an intellectual discipline. It traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems.


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By: Adrian Kuzminski

ISBN: 9780739125076
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr James Luchte

ISBN: 9781441131027
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A highly original monograph exploring the ways in which the concept of transmigration represents the fundamental meaning of Pythagorean thought.


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By: Dr James Luchte

ISBN: 9780826464361
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A monograph that explores the ways in which the concept of transmigration represents the fundamental meaning of Pythagorean thought. It explores the ways in which the concept of transmigration is a central motif in Pythagoras' philosophy, representing its fundamental meaning.


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By: Jane Duran

ISBN: 9781498541367
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Much recent work has been done on Platos notion of the female Guardian, but examples are limited. Jane Duran argues that aristocratic women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are indeed exemplary and embody the concept of Guardianship.


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By: Vivil Valvik Haraldsen

ISBN: 9781498550017
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes in the Apology. These include the relation of philosophy to democracy, rhetoric, politics, or society in general, and the overarching question of what comprises the philosophic life.


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By: Tiago Lier

ISBN: 9781498562782
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In a novel interpretation of Platos Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Socrates and Plato cultivate through their respective forms of rhetoric.


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By: Tiago Lier

ISBN: 9781498562805
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In a novel interpretation of Platos Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Socrates and Plato cultivate through their respective forms of rhetoric.


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By: Sam Wilkinson

ISBN: 9781441137937
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Erudite exploration of Republicanism as a political ideology and as an oppositional force to the emperors in Rome during the first century AD.

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