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  • When Philosophers Rule

    Ficino on Plato's Republic, Laws & Epinomis

    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    by Plato ...
    Series series Commentaries by Ficino on Plato's Writings
    Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance—who translated all the works of Plato into Latin—Ficino prepared these notes for Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of the republic of Florence, who aspired to be the kind of ... Read more

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  • Gardens of Philosophy

    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    Under the patronage of the Medici family, Marsilio Ficino translated into Latin and commentated on the meaning and implications of key works by Plat-including 25 of Plat's dialogues and 12 letters ascribed to the philosopher. The 40 concise articles in this collection comprise the first English translation of Ficin's works and provide an insightful glimpse into the philosophy that contributed to ... Read more

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  • Gardens of Philosophy

    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    What made the Renaissance tick? Why had it such a force that its thinking spread from a small group of scholars in Florence, working in their own brilliant ways but coming together in a small villa on the Florentine hillside where Marsilio Ficino (143399) lived, to affect the thinking of the whole of Europe, and eventually of America, for five hundred years and is continuing to do so? Cosimo de ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Short Works, Treatises and Hymns

    by Shankara Adi Shankara ...
    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    Śaṅkara is one of those great souls who - like Parmenides, Plato, Plotinus and others - appear on this planet from time to time, to propound Principles of a universal order and to act as precise and steadfast reference points. Śaṅkara dedicated his short but intense life (788-820) to the noble aim of revivifying the Vedic tradition in a time of confusion and crisis, and he achieved the greatest ... Read more

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  • Gardens of Philosophy

    Ficino on Plato

    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    by Plato ...
    Series Book 1 - Commentaries by Ficino on Plato's Writings
    Under the patronage of the Medici family, Marsilio Ficino translated into Latin and commentated on the meaning and implications of key works by Plato—including 25 of Plato's dialogues and 12 letters ascribed to the philosopher. The 40 concise articles in this collection comprise the first English translation of Ficino's works and provide an insightful glimpse into the philosophy that contributed ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evermore Shall Be So

    Ficino on Plato's Parmenides

    Edited by Arthur Farndell ...
    Series Book 2 - Commentaries by Ficino on Plato's Writings
    Featuring philosophical commentary from Marsilio Ficino—a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin—this work is the first English translation of Ficino's commentary of Plato's dialogue between the philosopher Parmenides and the youthful Socrates. In the scene, the older man instructs his student on the use of dialectic to draw the mind away from ... Read more

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  • Evermore Shall Be So

    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    With the publication of Arthur FWith the publication of Arthur Farndell’s Gardens of Philosophy (Shepheard Walwyn 2006), there remained only four of Ficino’s commentaries on Plato’s dialogues which had not yet been translated into English. With the publication of this volume there remain only three. Farndell’s translation of the commentaries on the Republic and the Laws will comprise the third ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • All Things Natural

    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Ficino's commentary on Plato?s Timaeus offers the English reader, for the first time, an opportunity to share the insights of this highly influential Renaissance philosopher into one of Plato's most important and controversial works. Here are discussed the perennial questions which affect us all: What is the nature of the universe? How did it begin? Does it have a cause outside itself? What is our ... Read more

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  • When Philosophers Rule

    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    ‘Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, – no, nor the human race, as I believe, – and then only will this our State have a ... Read more

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    In the general treatment of the subject, I have followed in the main the order, and drawn chiefly on the selection of passages, in Ritter and Preller's Historia Philosophiae Graecae. It is hoped that in this way the little book may be found useful at the universities, as a running commentary on that excellent work; and the better to aid students in the use of it for that purpose, the corresponding ... Read more

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  • The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments

    by Epictetus ...
    Epictetus was a Greek philosopher who lived during the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D (55 135). Interestingly, Epictetus did not actually write anything; all texts by Epictetus were written by his student Arrian. Included in this collection are The Discourses, The Enchiridion , and fragments attributed to Epictetus. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. ... Read more

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  • Self Enquiry

    by Sri Ramana Maharshi ...
    The present work in prose consists of forty questions with answers covering the entire range of spiritual disciplines required for the gaining of release (moksha). The questioner was Gambhiram Seshayya, one of the early devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. He was a Municipal Overseer at Tiruvannamalai about 1900. Besides being an ardent Ramabhakta (worshipper of Rama) he was interested in the ... Read more

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