Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

By Tor Shaul

Hardback – 2018-11-30 
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By Forrest Baird

This 7th Edition of Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers.　 In updating this edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria…

Paperback – 2018-11-15 
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By Various

This five-volume set of previously out-of-print titles reissues some key works on Socrates, examining the man, his philosophy and the debates surrounding it, and his influence. With a mixture of newer and older books, this collection encompasses a wide spectrum of scholarship.…

Hardback – 2018-09-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Socrates

By Anton-Hermann Chroust

The purpose of this book, first published in 1957, is to make a critical analysis of the controversial Socratic problem. The Socratic issue owes its paramount difficulty not only to the status of available source materials, but also to the diversity of opinion as to the proper use of these…

Hardback – 2018-09-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Socrates

By R. Nicol Cross

This book, first published in 1914, examines the life of Socrates and his teaching, and also details the world in which he lived, the Greece of the time experiencing a breakdown of authority in religion, morality and society.…

Hardback – 2018-09-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Socrates

By Owen Grazebrook

In this book, first published in 1927, the author presents us with three conversations, fables, that, beautiful in themselves, also have a direct bearing on what is being discussed: Death and the Hereafter; Justice; and the Kingdom of Heaven.…

Hardback – 2018-09-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Socrates

By Alan F. Blum

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in contrast to the continuous historical interest in that life as an object for biographical…

Hardback – 2018-09-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Socrates

Edited by Barry S. Gower, Michael C. Stokes

This book, first published in 1992, introduces some of Socrates’ problems and some of the problems about him. It seeks at the same time to advance new views, arguments and information on Socrates’ mission, techniques, ethics and later reception. From civil disobedience to ethics, this collection…

Hardback – 2018-09-17 
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Routledge Library Editions: Socrates

By Christopher J. Austin

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported inability to be explicated in the context of contemporary biological science, and its supposed incompatibility with…

Hardback – 2018-09-14 
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Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Edited by Juliette Harrisson

Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold, and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How…

Hardback – 2018-09-10 
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By MJS Hodge

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory problem of species variation to which Darwinian theory was a response, while contrasting the Darwinian with other traditions of the time, in the…

Hardback – 2018-08-31 
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Routledge Revivals

By James R. Muir

Bringing together the history of educational philosophy, political philosophy, and rhetoric, this book examines the influence of the philosopher Isocrates on educational thought and the history of education. Unifying philosophical and historical arguments, Muir discusses the role of Isocrates in…

Hardback – 2018-08-29 
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Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education