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  • History of Life Sciences and Medicine, Volume 1

    Antiquity and the Middle Ages

    Edited by Lorenzo Perilli ...
    Series series ISTE Invoiced
    Medicine has accompanied human history since its very origins and, unlike any other discipline, it grapples with matters of life and death. Today, understanding the evolution of medicine and life sciences, as well as the features that make them unique, is all the more important as these disciplines are undergoing major transformations.History of Life Sciences and Medicine 1 offers a new and ... Read more

    $136.00 USD

  • Ancient Philosophy

    Textual Paths and Historical Explorations

    Edited by Lorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina ...
    ‘We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece’, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for a method of investigation. This book tries to rediscover the propulsive force that for over two millennia ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • A New History of Western Philosophy

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Ancient Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Pythagoras

    His Life, Teaching, and Influence

    by Christoph Riedweg ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek sage has more to offer than formulas. He is said to have discovered the numerical nature of the basic consonances and transposed the musical proportions to the cosmos, postulating a "harmony of the spheres." He may have coined the words "cosmos" and "philosophy." He is also believed to ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Greek Philosophy - Simple Guides

    by Sophia Macdonald ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the revolution in thinking brought about by the Ancient Greek philosophers, who sought to make sense of the world through analysis, reasoning and argument • to recognize the key ideas of the most significant philosophers and their contribution to Western thought• to learn about the philosophers' lives, and their impact on society• to appreciate the value of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics

    Edited by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Hegel: Lectures on Philosophy (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Philosophy of History, The History of Philosophy, The Proofs of the Existence of God

    by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fletcher Preswick ...
    Hegel: Lectures on Philosophy gathers the mature reflections through which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel elaborates philosophy as a systematic account of reality, history, spirit, and reason. Composed from the lecture hall rather than the polished treatise, the work combines conceptual rigor with expansive historical narration, moving dialectically from abstract principles to concrete cultural ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

    by Diogenes Laertius

    by Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch ...
    Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Medieval Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.The middle ages saw a great flourishing of philosophy, and the intellectual endeavour of the era reaches its climax in the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

    by Mary Mills Patrick ...
    First published in 1899. According to Wikipedia: "Sextus Empiricus (c. 160-210 AD), was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. His philosophical work is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism... Sextus Empiricus raised concerns which applied to all types of knowledge. He doubted the validity of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy

    Edited by David Sedley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD