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Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in erotic terms. Plato envisions eros as creating and sustaining the permeability of the boundaries between the earthly and the divine. This motif...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-04-10
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What is justice? And why should you choose it—when the unjust so often seem to flourish?
Around 380 BC, Plato set down the most famous philosophical conversation ever written. The Republic is not a treatise. It is a drama: a single, sprawling, relentless night of...
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Cactus
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2026-02-11
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In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question: “What is the good life?”, while addressing how the liberal arts can help us to answer this question. Greek philosophy distinguished between the “noble” (what is...
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Springer
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2019-01-01
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This book reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late Antiquity’s seminal work on theurgy, which is often referred to as De Mysteriis. Was this text intended to be more than just a defence of ritualism or a philosophical crossing of metaphysical wits...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-21
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Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristotelian corpus, the Peri Kosmou (traditionally, but confusingly in...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-04
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Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy is a collection of Michael Frede's papers on topics in later ancient philosophy. They centre on pagan and Christian philosophers including Celsus, Numenius, Longinus, Syrianus, Origen, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, and John of Damascus....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-21
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Essays in Later Ancient Philosophy is a collection of Michael Frede's papers on topics in later ancient philosophy. They centre on pagan and Christian philosophers including Celsus, Numenius, Longinus, Syrianus, Origen, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, and John of Damascus....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-12-14
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The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism “A rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness” (Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer...
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Basic Books
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2025-11-11
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The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues.The volumes in the series have been...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-30
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This book challenges the current consensus about Aristotle’s sources in his account of Thales and the origin of philosophy (Metaphysics A, 983b20– 984a3). The current view is that Aristotle found his information about Thales’ philosophy in an important...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-09-26
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As the first monograph to specifically focus on the positive evaluation of belief (doxa) as a crucial concept in Plato’s epistemology, this work contributes significantly to scholarly research by offering a fresh perspective that deepens our understanding of...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-08-31
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Thus far unpublished even in its original German, Lux intelligibilis. Investigation on the Metaphysics of Light of the Greeks, submitted by Werner Beierwaltes as a doctoral dissertation in 1957, is presented here for the first time in English...
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Springer
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2025-08-28
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This book presents a collection of essays by prominent young researchers and established scholars on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s Topics in the Latin, Arabic and Hebraic traditions, as well as on its late-ancient sources in Alexander of Aphrodisias and...
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Springer
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2025-07-26
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The Gorgias is one of Plato's most important and interesting dialogues. This book consists of a set of independent but interconnected essays on its philosophical riches. Casey Perin devotes two essays to each of the three major episodes within the dialogue: Socrates'...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-21
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The Gorgias is one of Plato's most important and interesting dialogues. This book consists of a set of independent but interconnected essays on its philosophical riches. Casey Perin devotes two essays to each of the three major episodes within the dialogue: Socrates'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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Parmenides is one of the most widely studied and controversial early Greek philosophers. This edited collection examines Parmenides' modes of argument and their legacy, his poetics and intertextuality, and the relation between different parts of his poem. It also...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-07
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Parmenides is one of the most widely studied and controversial early Greek philosophers. This edited collection examines Parmenides' modes of argument and their legacy, his poetics and intertextuality, and the relation between different parts of his poem. It also...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-07
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This monograph works at the intersection of two of the most popular and growing fields in epistemology: epistemic normativity or value and virtue epistemology. By challenging two hitherto un- or under-explored sets of assumptions—epistemological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-05-14
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In the decades following the conquests of Alexander the Great, two major new schools of philosophy--the Epicureans and the Stoics--came to prominence in Athens, promoting starkly different worldviews and ways of life. Meanwhile Plato's Academy, an Athenian institution...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-04-15
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Plato's Hippias Minor has long been considered puzzling in its philosophical purpose, its characterization of Socrates, and its overall design. Departing from a tradition of scholarship that largely relegates the dialogue to the fringes of the Platonic corpus, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-13
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