Ancient Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Plato's Dialectic on Woman

   Equal, Therefore Inferior

   By Elena Blair

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The World of Parmenides

   Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

   By Karl Popper

   Series: Routledge Classics

   With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics

   Virtues and Gifts

   By Andrew Pinsent

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues. Yet, despite the availability of these texts (and centuries of commentary), Aquinas’s virtue ethics remains mysterious, leaving readers with many unanswered questions. In this book, Pinsent argues that the key...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self (Routledge Revivals)

   By Oliver Letwin

   This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin’s philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine. Dr Letwin examines three particular...

   Published December 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ancient Philosophy

   A Contemporary Introduction

   By Christopher Shields

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

   In this re-titled and substantially revised update of his Classical Philosophy (2003), Christopher Shields expands his coverage to include the Hellenistic era, and now offers an introduction to more than 1,000 years of ancient philosophy. From Thales and other Pre-Socratics through Socrates,...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
6. Sceptics-Arg Philosophers

   By R.J. Hankinson

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Plato

   Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines

   By John Niemeyer Findlay

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   J.N. Findlay, distinguished scholar and acknowledged expert on Plato, argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the great philosopher's mature written work. With the use of Aristotelian...

   Published October 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Plato

   By Robert Hall

   First published in 1981 this unique study discusses the evolution of Plato's thought through the actual developments in Athenian democracy, the book also demonstrates Plato's continuing responses to changes in political theory and argues for a new understanding of Plato's goals for the state and...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. Aristotle

   By John B. Morrall

   First published in 1977 this volume is the only account published in English in the 20th century to be exclusively devoted to an interpretation of Aristotle's political thought (as distinct from commentaries, translations and works on Aristotelean philosophy in general). It places Aristotle in his...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists

    The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs

    Edited by Paul T. Keyser, Georgia L. Irby-Massie

    The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia,...

    Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge