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By Alex G. Long (Editor)

Plato was once principal either to the genesis of Stoic thought and to next debates in the Stoa. those essays offer new and precise explorations of the complicated dating among Plato and the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions, and jointly they express the directness and independence with which Stoics tested Plato's writing. What have been the philosophical incentives to consulting after which returning to Plato's dialogues? To what volume did Plato, instead of Xenophon or Antisthenes, keep an eye on Stoic reconstructions of Socrates' ethics? What explains the actual concentration of Stoic polemic opposed to Plato, and the way robust is the proof for a later reconciliation among Plato and Stoicism? This booklet might be very important for all students and complex scholars attracted to the connection among a massive thinker and essentially the most vital philosophical events.

By Jeroen Lauwers

How is it attainable that glossy students have labelled Maximus of Tyre, a second-century CE performer of philosophical orations, as a sophist or a ‘half-philosopher’, whereas his personal self-presentation is that of a real thinker? If we take Maximus’ declare to philosophical authority heavily, his case can deepen our realizing of the dynamic nature of Imperial philosophy. via a discursive research of twelve Imperial intellectuals along Maximus’ dialexeis, the writer proposes an interpretative framework to evaluate the aim in the back of the illustration of philosophy, rhetoric, and sophistry in Maximus’ oeuvre. this can be therefore as but the 1st book-length try at situating the ancient verbal exchange approach implicit within the surviving Maximean texts within the concurrent context of the Imperial highbrow international.

By Mark Morford

The philosophers of the Roman global have been asking questions whose solutions had functional results on people's lives in antiquity, and which nonetheless impact our considering to at the present time. inspite of being ignored within the smooth period, this crucial age of philosophical concept is now present process a revival of interest.Mark Morford's energetic survey makes those contemporary scholarly advancements obtainable to a large viewers, reading the writings and ideas of either well-known and lesser recognized figures - from Cato the Censor in one hundred fifty five BCE to Marcus Aurelius in one hundred eighty CE. established round large and completely translated quotations from the philosophical texts of the period, complete attention is given all through to ancient, political and cultural context.

By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walter Crane

Pleasant retelling of six Greek myths to a crowd of vigorous kids via a grasp storyteller. contains The Gorgon's Head, The Golden contact, The Paradise of youngsters, the 3 Golden Apples, and The mind-blowing Pitcher. quite a few black and white illustrations through famous illustrator Walter Crane liven up the narrative. compatible for a long time nine and up.

By Joey Dodson, David Briones

Paul and Seneca in Dialogue assembles a world staff of students to check the philosophical and theological strands in Paul and Seneca's writings, putting them in discussion with each other. Arguably, no different first-century, non-Christian writer's options resemble Paul's as heavily as Seneca's, and students have usually came upon price in evaluating Pauline options with Seneca's writings. however, except the occasional article, extensive comparability, or cross-reference, an in-depth serious comparability of those writers has now not been tried for over fifty years - given that Sevenster's monograph of 1961. within the gentle of the sizeable volume of study providing new views on either Paul and Seneca because the early Sixties, this new comparability of the 2 writers is lengthy past due.

By John Philoponus

Aristotle's account of position, within which he outlined a thing's position because the internal floor of its nearest motionless box, was once supported via the Latin center a while, even 1600 years after his loss of life, notwithstanding it had now not confident many old Greek philosophers. The 6th century commentator Philoponus took a extra common sense view. For him, position was once an motionless 3-dimensional extension, whose essence didn't hinder its being empty, no matter if for different purposes it had constantly to be packed with physique. despite the fact that, Philoponus reserved his personal definition for an excursus, already translated during this sequence, The Corollary on Place. within the textual content translated right here he sought after as a substitute to provide an explanation for Aristotle's view to straightforward scholars. the new conjecture that he needed to draw younger fellow-Christians clear of the authentic pagan professor of philosophy in Alexandria has the advantage of explaining why he expounds Aristotle the following, instead of attacking him. yet he nonetheless places the scholars via their paces, for instance whilst discussing Aristotle's declare that position can't be a physique, or our bodies may coincide.

By Otfried Hoffe

A person attracted to theories of ethical or human perform will locate in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics one of many few easy types appropriate via to at the present time. on the centre of his research, either sober and wary, are such suggestions as happiness, advantage, selection, prudence, incontinence, excitement and friendship. Aristotle's arguments are in no way of purely ancient curiosity, yet proceed to exert a key impression on present-day moral debate. The 13 contributions during this quantity current the rules of Aristotle's research, in addition to the trendy history of its reception.

By Charles Le Blanc

The current research emphasizes bankruptcy Six of Huai-nan Tzu in expounding the idea of kan-ying STIMULUS-RESPONSE; RESONANCE, which postulates that every one issues within the universe are interrelated and effect one another in keeping with pre-set styles.

By Arthur Farndell

Marsilio Ficino, a leading pupil of the Italian Renaissance who translated the entire works of Plato into Latin, examines Plato’s Timaeus, the main greatly influential and hotly debated of the Platonic writings. supplying a possible account of the construction and nature of the cosmos, the dialogue accommodates such questions as what's the functionality of mathematics and geometry within the layout of production? what's the nature of brain, soul, topic, and time? and what's our position within the universe? To his major statement Ficino provides an appendix, which amplifies and elucidates Plato’s meanings and reveals interesting information about Ficino himself.

By Monica R. Gale

This ebook gathers jointly the most vital and influential scholarly articles of the final sixty to seventy years (three of that are translated into English right here for the 1st time) at the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the character of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to persuade its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic philosopher Epicurus. The articles amassed during this quantity discover Lucretius' poetic and argumentative method from various views, and in addition contemplate the poem when it comes to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and beliefs of latest Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated.