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Stoicism

Stoicism

2nd Edition

Forthcoming

By John Sellars
June 20, 2025

This new edition of Stoicism provides an introduction to one of the most influential schools of philosophy in antiquity, the influence of which has persisted to the present day. Originating in Athens around 300 BCE, Stoicism flourished for some five hundred years and has remained a constant ...

The Sophists

The Sophists

1st Edition

By Richard McKirahan
September 30, 2024

This book offers a new way of looking at the fifth-century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and presenting them as individuals rather than a “movement,” each with his own specialty and personality as revealed through the scant surviving evidence. It provides ...

The Philosophy of Early Christianity

The Philosophy of Early Christianity

2nd Edition

By George Karamanolis
May 31, 2021

This new edition introduces the reader to the philosophy of early Christianity in the second to fourth centuries AD, and contextualizes the philosophical contributions of early Christians in the framework of the ancient philosophical debates. It examines the first attempts of Christian ...

The Peripatetics Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE

The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE

1st Edition

By Han Baltussen
December 21, 2016

The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or whether there was a ...

Cynics

Cynics

1st Edition

By William Desmond
August 27, 2008

Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of ...

Epicureanism

Epicureanism

1st Edition

By Tim O'Keefe
October 28, 2009

The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (century 341-270 BCE), it was characterized by an empiricist epistemology and a hedonistic ethics. This new introduction to Epicurus offers readers clear exposition of the...

Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism

1st Edition

By Pauliina Remes
September 01, 2008

Although Neoplatonism has long been studied by classicists, until recently most philosophers saw the ideas of Plotinus et al as a lot of religious/magical mumbo-jumbo. Recent work however has provided a new perspective on the philosophical issues in Neoplatonism and Pauliina Remes new introduction ...

Presocratics

Presocratics

1st Edition

By James Warren
June 25, 2007

The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account ...

Stoicism

Stoicism

1st Edition

By John Sellars
April 20, 2006

Stoicism was one of the most influential schools of philosophy in antiquity and its influence has persisted to the present day. Originating in Athens around 300 BCE, Stoicism flourished for some five hundred years and has remained a constant presence throughout the history of Western philosophy. As...

Indian Buddhist Philosophy

Indian Buddhist Philosophy

1st Edition

By Amber Carpenter
December 10, 2013

Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of ...

Confucianism

Confucianism

1st Edition

By Paul Goldin
October 28, 2010

"Confucianism" presents the history and salient tenets of Confucian thought, and discusses its viability, from both a social and a philosophical point of view, in the modern world. Despite most of the major Confucian texts having been translated into English, there remains a surprising lack of ...

Plato

Plato

1st Edition

By Andrew Mason
March 01, 2010

Plato (c.428-347 BCE) stands at the beginning of many debates that have continued throughout the history of philosophy. His literary career spanned fifty years and the influence of his ideas and those of his followers pervaded philosophy throughout antiquity. Andrew Mason's lucid and engaging ...

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