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Richard Wakefield Author. Thomas Cathcart and Danny Klein Author. John Sellars Author. Scott Soames. Richard Jenkyns. Nicholas D. Smith. +6. 12 authors created a book list connected to ancient philosophy, and here are their favorite ancient philosophy books. Shepherd is reader supported.
Ancient Philosophy Books Showing 1-50 of 1,380 The Republic (Paperback) by. Plato (shelved 74 times as ancient-philosophy) avg rating 3.96 — 207,138 ratings ...
Mar 15, 2004 · A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy—and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a ...
Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume I Antipope Hippolytus 247 downloads. The Teaching of Epictetus Epictetus 239 downloads. Lesser Hippias Plato 225 downloads. Early Greek philosophy John Burnet 194 downloads. Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 George Grote 145 downloads.
May 1, 2012 · If you read the Stoics or Epicureans or even Plato, they say that the aim of philosophy is to make people happier and more fulfilled. And I think Alain de Botton won that argument. If you now look at where philosophy is 10 years on, it is much more concerned with things like flourishing, happiness and the good life.
Jul 3, 2024 · Professor Melissa Lane of Princeton University recommends the best books to get a better understanding of the Greek philosopher Plato, including his most famous work, the Republic. The best books on ancient philosophy, as recommended by leading experts. Read about everyone from Confucius to Avicenna, from the Presocratics to Plato.
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Jan 8, 2007 · This is the initial volume of a four-book set in which Kenny will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy, the first major single-author history of philosophy to appear in decades. Ancient Philosophy spans over a thousand years and brings to life the great minds of the past, from Thales, Pythagoras, and Parmenides, to Socrates ...
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