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      The Pocket Book of Plato

      Michael Moore

      Keep the philosophies of Plato in your pocket with this handy hardback guide to Plato's key ideas, complete with helpful summaries, diagrams and illustrations.

      The ancient Greek philosopher Plato is…

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      Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257D-279C, with ‘Syrianus'

      Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly

      This third and final volume concludes Hermias' commentary on Plato's Phaedrus. Here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias follows him, and adds a…

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      A Treatise on the Guarani System of Government in Comparison with Plato’s Republic (1793)

      Josep Manuel Peramas

      Josep Manuel Peramas's A Treatise on the Guarani System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793 analyzes Guarani-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public festivals…

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      Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems

      A new edition of this classic book on the topic of converter and device reliability, taking account of the crucial role of power electronics with renewable generation and variable loads…

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      Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 245E-257C

      Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly

      This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic…

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      Philebus

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      A translation of Plato’s dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge. It includes a cogent introduction, notes, and comprehensive bibliography.

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      Essays in Ancient Philosophy

      Michael Frede

      This collection confirms Professor Frede’s reputation as a leading figure in the field of ancient philosophy, and brings his essays, which have not been widely disseminated, to the attention of…

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      Protagoras

      Plato,Michael Frede

      Presents the translation of a dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of sophistic teaching. This title provides an introduction that illuminates the dialogue’s perennial interest, its Athenian political background…

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      Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 40: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede

      Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major…

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      Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 40: Essays in Memory of Michael Frede

      Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major…

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      The Historiography of Philosophy: with a Postface by Jonathan Barnes

      Michael Frede

      This volume presents stimulating and provocative work on how the history of philosophy is done and how it should be done, by Michael Frede, a pre-eminent figure in ancient philosophy…

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      The Original Sceptics: A Controversy

      Myles Burnyeat,Michael Frede

      This is a collection of five essays debating the nature and scope of ancient scepticism, and providing an introduction to the thought of the original sceptics. The book seeks to…

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      Aristotle’s Metaphysics ,  Lambda

      Scholars of ancient philosophy here present a systematic study of the 12th book of Aristotle’s ‘Metaphysics’. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting…

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      Rationality in Greek Thought

      This is a collection of essays that re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. The application of changing notions of rationality down the ages has led to consistent misinterpretation of…

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      Rationality in Greek Thought

      A collection of essays by international scholars which re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. Conceptions of reason, rationality, and reasonableness have changed considerably over time; this text sharpens awareness…

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      Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity

      In this title distinguished experts from a range of disciplines, including orientalists, philologists, philosophers, theologians, and historians, address a central problem which lies at the heart of the religious and…

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      Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity

      Distinguished experts from a range of disciplines (Orientalists, philologists, philosophers, theologians, and historians) with a common interest in late antiquity probe the apparent paradox of pagan monotheism and reach a…

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      Olympiodorus: Life of Plato and On Plato First Alcibiades 1-9

      Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as…

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      Plato’s Bible

      Antony Michael Hylton

      The idea that Plato and the Greek Philosophers were dependent on Moses and the prophets for their wisdom is an argument used by second and third century defenders of the…

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      Plato and the Invention of Life

      Michael Naas

      Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers-or invents-a form…

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      Plato and the Invention of Life

      Michael Naas

      Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers-or invents-a form…

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      Plato: Apology of Socrates

      The Apology is a masterpiece of rhetoric, illustrating Plato’s version of Socrates’ dialectical method. This edition brings together valuable research and develops it further, questioning the historical accuracy of Plato’s…

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      A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought

      Michael Frede

      Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? This title states that the notion of a free…

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      A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought

      Michael Frede

      Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? This title offers an account of the history, the…

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      European Political Theory: Plato to Machiavelli

      Michael A. Soupios

      Provides a detailed, historically-based guide to the evolution of Western political thought. More specifically, traces the movement from the ‘classical tradition’ of Plato to the new and revolutionary prescriptions of…

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      The Practice of Philosophy in Plato and Plotinus: An Exploration

      Michael Bennett

      Plato said over 2,500 years ago that an unexamined life for a man is not worth living. To examine one’s life, on a regular basis, cannot but lead to a…

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      The Practice of Philosophy in Plato and Plotinus: An Exploration

      Michael Bennett

      Plato said over 2,500 years ago that an unexamined life for a man is not worth living. To examine one’s life, on a regular basis, cannot but lead to a…

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      The Music of Reason: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Plato

      Michael Davis

      Michael Davis explores the musical quality of thinking in the work of Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Plato, revealing the complex and profound ways in which they each plumbed the depths of…

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      Plato and the Moving Image

      Plato and the Moving Image shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato’s dialogues, and…

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      Olympiodorus: Life of Plato and On Plato First Alcibiades 1-9

      Olympiodorus, the Younger, of Alexandria

      Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as…

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      Plato’s Stepping Stones: Degrees of Moral Virtue

      Michael Cormack

      Develops an interpretation of the puzzling claim that virtue is knowledge, while also providing a reading of the dialogues as a whole which harmonizes the apparently diverse statements of their…

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      Olympiodorus: On Plato First Alcibiades 10-28

      Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered 28 lectures as an introduction to Plato. This volume translates lectures 10-28, following from the first…

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      Essays on Plato’s Psychology

      This anthology offers a collection of the best classic and modern essays on central topics of Plato’s psychological theory, including essays on the nature of the soul, studies of the…

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      Dialectic in Action: An Examination of Plato’s Crito

      Michael C. Stokes

      Plato’s Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes’s book discusses Socrates’ arguments against Crito’s offer of escape. It construes Socrates’ questions as…

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      Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

      Michael A. Rinella

      Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon…

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      Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens

      Michael A. Rinella

      Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon…

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      Between Socrates and the Many: A Study of Plato’s Crito

      J. Michael Hoffpauir

      In studying Plato’s Crito with a primary concern for Plato’s friend Crito, this book reveals the rarity of the philosopher, the tension between the citizen’s natural understanding of justice and…

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      Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Political Thought

      Michael S. Kochin (Tel-Aviv University)

      Explores Plato’s Republic and Laws, the unity of the virtues, women’s role, and the family.

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      Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Political Thought

      Michael S. Kochin (Tel-Aviv University)

      Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Thought explores the relation between Plato’s Republic and Laws on the set of issues that the Laws itself marks out as fundamental to the comparison…

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      Icastes: Marsilio Ficino’s Interpretation of Plato’s Sophist

      Michael J B Allen

      New 2016 paperback edition of the original 1989 printing (out-of-print).

      Michael Allen’s latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by…

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      Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion

      Marsilio Ficino

      Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.

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      Plato’s Socratic Conversations: Drama and Dialectic in Three Dialogues

      Michael C. Stokes

      This study focuses on Laches, Protagoras, and the conversation between Socrates and Agathon in the Symposium. For these dialogues the author “proposes a strategy of interpretation that insists on the…

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      Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World

      Carlos Fraenkel

      Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour…

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      Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World

      Carlos Fraenkel

      Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour…

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      Essays on Plato’s Psychology

      This anthology offers a collection of the best classic and modern essays on cenral topics of Plato’s psychological theory, including essays on the nature of the soul, studies of the…

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      Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism

      Michael LaFargue

      Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.

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      Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism

      Michael LaFargue

      Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.

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      Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 245E-257C

      Michael Share (University of Tasmania, Australia),Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania, Australia)

      This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus’ seminar on Plato’s Phaedrus, one of the world’s most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic…

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