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Christopher Shields
In this excellent introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature…
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Claudia Zatta
With a novel approach to Aristotle's zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos…
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Douglas Vigliotti
In many ways, we've been telling the same stories, over and over, for the last 2300 years. This book will show you why, and how you can do it too.
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Aristotle, William Ellis
Jec Aristotle Ballou
The go-to reference for riders and trainers aiming to improve equine conditioning in ways that are strategic, engaging, and fair to the horse.
Aristotle, Armand D'Angour
What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times — the ancient Greeks
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Aristotle, Philip Freeman
An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle’s complete Poetics — the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories
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J D Ponce
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth…
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Aristotle's Parva naturalia is a set of small treatises on sense perception, memory, recollection, sleep, dreams, prophecy by dreams, motion of living beings, length and shortness of life, and maintenance…
Patrice D. Rankine
Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body challenges the normative assumptions of classical texts and modes of creation…
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This volume examines the influence of medical knowledge on Aristotle's work, in particular, it explores the connections with the Hippocratic writings. By presenting a series of case studies, it offers…
John Boersma
Makes the case that the different stances Aristotle and Socrates take toward politics can be traced to their divergent accounts of friendship.
Giles Pearson
Providing the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks emotions are and pointing to some philosophical merits of his account, this book addresses, among other things, his view on how…
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Arguing that Aristotle shows us that ethical knowledge can be highly systematic without being detached from practice, Jagannathan's book sheds new light on an influential text and on our understanding…
Tyler Huismann
This major new study of Aristotle's natural philosophy connects it to modern theories of causation and provides fresh interpretations of classic issues. Structured around close readings of the Physics and…
Elisa Coda
This is the first book length examining closely Themistius' philosophical thought and his understanding of Aristotelian philosophy. Themistius, well known as an eloquent orator and political personality of Constantinople during…
Pavlos Kontos
This book offers a new account of Aristotle's practical philosophy. Kontos argues that Aristotle does not restrict practical reason to its action-guiding and motivational role; rather, practical reason remains practical…
Richard D. McKirahan
An astounding project of analysis on more than one hundred translations of ancient philosophical texts, this index of words found in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series comprises some 114,000…
Themistius
Themistius' paraphrase of Aristotle's De anima is his most influential work. Together with Alexander of Aphrodisias' own Paraphrase, it represents the first extant commentary on that important work of Aristotle…
Ronald Fortin
Aristotle: Form and Matter Edification offers an in-depth exploration of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts. This scholarly work meticulously reconstructs Aristotle's theories, presenting them through the rigorous lens of analytic geometry…
This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes. The text is entirely devoted to the discussion…
Aristotle
For Plato the soul was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. In ‘De Anima’, Plato’s student, Aristotle sought to set…
This volume brings together twelve essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant. Its broad historical sweep also facilitates comparisons between…
John Sellars
There is in Athens a rather plain ruin; a simple courtyard lined with fragments of wall. Yet, this little patch of land has a claim to be the most significant…
Will Durant
In "Will Durant on Ancient Greek Philosophy," the eminent historian and philosopher, Will Durant, guides readers on a profound exploration of the intellectual bedrock of Western civilization. Through eloquent prose…
Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impact of Aristotle's syllogism between the 1820s and 1930s.
Yury Arzhanov
Sergius of Reshaina's (d. 536) Commentary on the Categories is a key text in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle's logic. Written on the basis of the lectures…
This volume of fourteen essays brings together cutting-edge scholarship on Aristotelian and Peripatetic biology, from the study of the soul to the research programme on animals and plants, but Aristotle's…
David Botting
David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle's account of how we acquire the first principles of science. The author…
Antonio Pedro Mesquita
This book addresses the issue of natural simultaneity of relatives discussed by Aristotle in Categories 7, 7b15-8a12. It is the first book to explore this issue from the perspective of…
Benjamin Alire Saenz
The highly acclaimed cult classic about family, friendship and first love, from award-winning author Benjamin Alire Saenz.
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This Companion provides a global map of the reception of Aristotle's Poetics from Antiquity to the present day, combining inputs from philology, philosophy, literary theory, art theory, comparative literature, reception…
The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved cult classic about family, friendship and first love, from award-winning author Benjamin Alire Saenz.
In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle examines the nature of happiness, which he defines as a specially good kind of life. He considers the nature of practical reasoning, friendship, and the…
This is a complete English translation of Aristotle’s key work on science. It presents Aristotle’s thought accurately, while at the same time simplifying and expanding the often crabbed and elliptical…
George Malcolm Stratton
First published in 1917, Theophrastus and the Greek Physiological Psychology Before Aristotle is on the history of ancient Greek physiological psychology.
Two major works on ethics have come down to us under Aristotle’s name, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics, but, quite unjustifiably, the Eudemian Ethics has been largely neglected…
Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is regarded as one of the most important figures of classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous…
F a Wright
"Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle" by F. A. Wright is a groundbreaking work of literary analysis that explores the portrayal of women and gender dynamics in ancient…
Jingyi Jenny Zhao
Despite recent developments in the history of emotions and in comparative studies, sustained cross-cultural comparative studies of the emotions remain few and far between. Jingyi Jenny Zhao has produced the…
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.
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Presents an analysis based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both…
Andrew Cunningham
This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made.
Randall Parrish
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel "My Lady of the North". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in die franzoesische Sprache uebersetzt. Bei…
Roy Peter Clark
From one of America’s most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books – from Aristotle to Strunk and…
