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Plato's Sophist in Antiquity

Plato's Sophist in Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of how one of Plato's most challenging and influential dialogues was read, interpreted, and transformed throughout the ancient Mediterra…

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Shadi Bartsch
Plato Goes to China

The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's…

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Phillip Sidney Horky
Pythagorean Philosophy, 250 Bce-200 CE

Pythagoreanism stands as one the most influential - and obscure - philosophical movements in antiquity. Most ancients identified Pythagoras as the originator of the concept of philosophy, or "love of…

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Social Complexity in Northern Jordan

This open access investigation of Northern Jordan in the first millennium BCE offers new insights into the mechanisms of social complexity, showing how communities adapted to their environments, negotiate…

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Candice Delmas
Civil and Uncivil Disobedience

What is wrong with disobedience? What makes an act of disobedience civil or uncivil? Under what conditions can an act of civil or uncivil disobedience be justified? Can a liberal democratic regime tolerat…

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Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder

In Germany at the close of the eighteenth century, Johann Gottfried Herder offered an important alternative to the philosophy of his teacher, Immanuel Kant. He held radical views on language, world histor…

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Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla
Kant and the Problem of Nothingness

The Latin American philosopher Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla published the first study of Kant's concept of nothingness in 1965. This translation of Mayz Vallenilla's ground-breaking work makes it available in …

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Paul Guyer
Selected Essays on Kant I

Paul Guyer, winner of the 2024 International Kant Prize, is one of the world's leading Kant scholars. This volume collects twelve of his essays on Kant's philosophy of Right, his political-legal philosoph…

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Ronna Burger
The Phaedo

Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of "the twin pillars of Platonism" - the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Tracing the movement of the argument through t…

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Claude Buffier

Claude Buffier: Common Sense, Metaphysics, and Sociability ventures into the largely unexplored territory of his philosophical contributions to early modern thought, unlocking the complexity of his ideas …

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Inquiring into Being

SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics. Inquiring into Being is a study of Parmenides, the early Greek pre-Socratic philosopher often credit…

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James Bernard Murphy
Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how …

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Bryan C. Reece
Aristotelian Ontological Priority and Metaphysical Grounding

Many think that reality is structured such that some beings are more fundamental than others and characterize this structure in terms of 'grounding.' Grounding is typically regarded as explanatory and as …

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates

This handbook provides detailed philosophical analysis of the life and thought of Socrates across fifteen in-depth chapters. Each chapter engages with a central aspect of the rich tradition of Socratic st…

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Stephen P. Sims
The City Among Cities

An original interpretation of Aristotle's political thought focusing on war and peace. With the post-Cold War international order under stress, Stephen P. Sims reconsiders the relationship between war, pe…

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Justin Pack
Prehistoric Philosophy

Prehistoric Philosophy challenges the narrative of progress and other civilizational myths by looking at their origins in the neolithic revolution. Once we reject the simplistic and often racist stereotyp…

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Candice Delmas
Civil and Uncivil Disobedience

What is wrong with disobedience? What makes an act of disobedience civil or uncivil? Under what conditions can an act of civil or uncivil disobedience be justified? Can a liberal democratic regime tolerat…

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Jaqueline Mariña
Kant's Metaphysics of the Will

The idea of the individual as autonomous, capable of understanding through the use of reason what morality requires, and capable of doing the right thing because it is right, is one of the pillars of the …

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Thornton Lockwood
Aristotle on Justice

Aristotle's account of justice has inspired thinkers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas and Martha Nussbaum. Concepts such as distributive justice, equity, the common good, and the distinction between just and …

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Thomas M Lennon
Libra

There is significant confusion and disagreement, especially among specialists, about René Descartes's views on freedom. Employing careful translations of his writings, and keen attention to their philosop…

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