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Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the context of the most recent thinking about the nature and value of philosophy. It shows that there is much to be learnt from the ancient philosophers' views of the life of a philosopher.

This study examines Gorgias' radical alternative to the philosophical view of the use and abuse of language. In the sequel it investigates Plato's counterblast and further crucial episodes in the later history of the controversy.

Mental conflict is the condition of a divided mind, consciously torn between contrary desires or beliefs. For the Greeks it is a puzzle provocative of theory; they accommodate it with different structurings of the mind's operations. This study features Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics.

Saving the City examines ancient political and philosophical thought from Homer to Cicero. it explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it.

Analysis of Tauros' work, biography, with Tauros' fragments, translated into English.

Focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from and new perspectives on Aristotle's ethics. Suitable for students and scholars of ancient philosophy and ethics, particularly Aristotle's two ethics.

This first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis offers readers an insight into the its philosophical and historical context, purpose, and legacy to reach a definition of its theology. Suitable for those studying ancient philosophy, particularly the Epinomis and Platonic philosophy.