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Lloyd P. Gerson
"An account of the central tradition in the history of philosophy, Platonism, along with the class of philosophical positions collectively known as Naturalism and the 'anti-Platonism' of Naturalism both in…
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A collection of articles on Aristotle’s logic, metaphysics, physics, cosmology, biology, psychology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and aesthetics, discussing the major issues of concern in contemporary Aristotelian scholarship.
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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle’s…
Hegel After Derrida provides an assessment not only of the importance of Hegel and the importance of Derrida’s work on Hegel but also of the very foundations of postmodern and…
Sixteen scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus’ ‘Neoplatonism’.
This book attempts to situate Plato's ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea…
Lloyd P. Gerson argues that Plato was a Platonist and challenges fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood.
An account of the central tradition in the history of philosophy, Platonism, along with the class of philosophical positions collectively known as Naturalism and the ‘anti-Platonism’ of Naturalism both in…
Offers a study of Plato’s account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. This book locates Plato’s psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons are images…
Lloyd P. Gerson (University of Toronto)
This first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates’ predecessors up to the Platonists of late…
Lloyd Gerson
Lloyd Gerson offers his study of Plato’s account of persons, a topic of continuing interest to philosophers. His book locates Plato’s psychology within his two-world metaphysics, showing that embodied persons…
The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and…
Providing nearly a hundred pages of additional material, this title offers the English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Anus Didysmus, sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded…
Brad Inwood,Lloyd P. Gerson
Offers translations of a selection of the writings of the Stoics, along with relevant selections from the works of the Sceptics, an introduction, bibliography, glossary, and index.
Epicurus
A total philosophy of life, death, religion, ethics, and culture promising liberation from the obstacles that stand in the way of our happiness, the teachings of Epicurus claimed many thousand…
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Crucial for students of Plotinus looking to engage with his philosophy, and including translations of all his Enneads and Life of Plotinus, this is the first single-volume English edition for…
Plato’s Forms: Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the topic of the Forms in Plato’s dialogues.
Contributors examine a premise of traditional readings of Plato’s dialogues: that Plato’s own philosophical dialogues and arguments can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and…
Contributors examine a premise of traditional readings of Plato’s dialogues: that Plat’s own philosophical dialogues and arguments can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and…
