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How to Grow Old by Marcus Tullius Cicero
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

The Active Life Let’s consider first the claim that old age denies us an active life. What kind of activities are we talking about? Don’t we mean the sort we ...
( Category: Greek & Roman March 28,2017 )
On Government by Marcus Tullius Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

So I went on. ‘In gaiety and wit,’ I continued, ‘Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, son of Lucius, outdid all his contemporaries and his predecessors as well.3 His oratory was ...
( Category: Elections & Political Process March 9,2017 )
Selected Works by Cicero
epub |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Cicero

PART TWO HOW TO LIVE CHAPTER FOUR A PRACTICAL CODE OF BEHAVIOUR (ON DUTIES · III) No one will ever write anything more wise, more true, or more useful. From ...
( Category: Medieval March 9,2017 )
First Philosophers by Waterfield Robin;
epub |eng | 2000-12-04 | Author:Waterfield, Robin;

DIOGENES OF APOLLONIA Diogenes is something of a throwback—a Milesian kind of philosopher in a post-Parmenidean world. He is also an eclectic, borrowing not just from Anaxagoras and Leucippus (as ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 5,2016 )
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy by A. A. Long
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:A. A. Long [A. A. Long]

NOTES A version of this chapter has already appeared as part of the chapter “Anaxagoras and the Atomists” in C. C. W. Taylor, ed. Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. I, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman November 22,2016 )
The Cambridge Companion to Plato by Richard Kraut
epub |eng | 1992-11-21 | Author:Richard Kraut

NICHOLAS P. WHITE 9 Plato’s metaphysical epistemology I For some time philosophers have thought of epistemology and metaphysics as different branches of philosophy, investigating, respectively, what can be known and ...
( Category: Greek & Roman November 22,2016 )
The Daily Stoic by Holiday Ryan & Hanselman Stephen
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Holiday, Ryan & Hanselman, Stephen

July 15th DOING THE RIGHT THING IS ENOUGH “When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement November 6,2016 )
Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle; Kenny Anthony;
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Aristotle; Kenny, Anthony;

RELATION OF WISDOM TO UNDERSTANDING What is the use of wisdom and philosophy? 12. One might wonder whether these virtues are of any use. Philosophical understanding does not focus on ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 8,2016 )
Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus by Gregory Shaw
epub |eng | 2014-09-11 | Author:Gregory Shaw [Shaw, Gregory]

III The Liturgy of the Cosmos 145 Theurgy and the Soul 146 12 Cult and Cosmos God is the leader of these things… amblichus believed that theurgy was entirely compatible ...
( Category: Greek & Roman August 7,2016 )
Philosophy in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic by Douglas Groothuis
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-05 | Author:Douglas Groothuis [Groothuis, Douglas]

Descartes needed to exorcize the skeptical demon that has haunted the history of philosophy. As far back as we can go, philosophers have wondered not just what can be known ...
( Category: Religious July 11,2016 )
Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics) by Marcus Tullius Cicero
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

( Category: Rome July 2,2016 )
1444335731 (PHSY) by Thomas A. Blackson
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-11-29 | Author:Thomas A. Blackson

5.2 Justice The Republic itself continues. Glaucon and Adeimantus12 are not content to let the conversation end unsatisfactorily simply because Thrasymachus has thrown a fit. They challenge Socrates to demonstrate ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 26,2016 )
Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Sciabarra Chris
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Sciabarra, Chris [Sciabarra, Chris]

MASTER AND SLAVE As we have seen, The Fountainhead provided Rand with the first opportunity to present a complex psychological portrait of those individuals whom she described as “second-handers.” As ...
( Category: Russia May 19,2016 )
Six Questions of Socrates by Christopher Phillips
epub |eng | 2004-05-02 | Author:Christopher Phillips

NOT-SO-ORDINARY VIRTUES AND HUMAN GOOD Scholar Robert Gordon writes that Primo Levi enumerated over his writing life a “category of virtues” that were unique in their “rather stubborn ordinariness”—virtues that ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 3,2016 )
Plato's Podcasts by Mark Vernon
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Vernon

… there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion … Wherein is he [Falstaff] good, but to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 28,2016 )

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