Ancient Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

   By Gerard J Hughes

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Written by one of the most important founding figures of Western philosophy, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics represents a critical point in the study of ethics which has influenced the direction of modern philosophy. The Routledge Guidebook to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduces the major...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

   By Nickolas Pappas

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic introduces the major themes in Plato’s great...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Plato (Routledge Revivals)

   Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines

   By John Niemeyer Findlay

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective

   Edited by Julia Peters

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   By bringing together influential critics of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics and some of the strongest defenders of an Aristotelian approach, this collection provides a fresh assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Aristotelian virtue ethics and its contemporary interpretations. Contributors...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World

   Contests of Virtue

   By Heather Reid

   Series: Ethics and Sport

   This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
6. Plato and the English Romantics (RLE: Plato)

   By E Douka Kabitoglou

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, especially hermeneutics and deconstruction, the author shows that a dialogue between thinking and poetizing is possible....

   Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Plato and Hegel (RLE: Plato)

   Two Modes of Philosophizing about Politics

   By Gary Browning

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the general disparities involved in their particular ways of seeking to fulfil these aspirations. Professor Browning compares the political thought of Plato...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Plato Today (RLE: Plato)

   By R Crossman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   Plato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Plato's Use of Fallacy (RLE: Plato)

   A Study of the Euthydemus and some Other Dialogues

   By Rosamond Sprague

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato. The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of at least an important number of these arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Message of Plato (RLE: Plato)

    A Re-Interpretation of the Republic

    By Edward Urwick

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

    Edward Urwick’s original work draws upon Plato’s best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato’s teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to interpret the Republic from the standpoint of politics, ethics, and metaphysics and indeed the...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge