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Nicomachean Ethics (Focus Philosophical Library) by Aristotle
mobi |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Aristotle

BOOK VI Chapter 1. Now since what we said earlier is that one ought to choose the mean, and not the excess or deficiency, and [20] the mean is as ...
( Category: History & Theory July 22,2020 )
Seneca by Seneca
epub |eng | 2015-01-03 | Author:Seneca

2. That is, philosophers from the past, whom we can know through their writings. 3. Seneca is referring to the famous fable in which an animal refused to enter a ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 20,2020 )
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics) by Epictetus
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-12 | Author:Epictetus

3.17 On Providence [1] Whenever you find fault with providence, just give the matter some thought and you’ll recognize that what came about was in accordance with reason. [2] ‘Yes, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 20,2020 )
Early Socratic Dialogues by Emlyn-Jones Chris & Plato
epub |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Emlyn-Jones Chris & Plato

SUMMARY OF HIPPIAS MAJOR A. Introduction B. Fineness and a Fine-looking Girl C. Fineness as Gold D. Fineness as Health, Wealth and So On E. Fineness as Appropriateness F. Fineness ...
( Category: Anthologies July 17,2020 )
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2004-07-29 | Author:Aristotle

Chapter Two Now in our investigation of the soul, if we are in doubt about those things of which we should gain clear knowledge as we proceed, it is necessary ...
( Category: Medieval July 17,2020 )
The Enneads by Plotinus
epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-06-30 | Author:Plotinus

18. There remains still something to be said on the question whether the Soul uses deliberate reason29 before its descent and again when it has left the body. Reasoning is ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 16,2020 )
On Government by Cicero
epub |eng | 2006-02-23 | Author:Cicero

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: History & Theory July 16,2020 )
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
epub |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Xenophon

5 I shall now tell how he made his associates more efficient. Believing that self-discipline was a good thing for anyone to have who intended to achieve a creditable result, ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 16,2020 )
Plato's Laughter by Sonja Madeleine Tanner
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Sonja Madeleine Tanner

Logos and the Satirical Comedy in the Cratylus reveals not only humanity’s inextricable bond to logos, as Sallis contends, but, as I argue here, it also exposes hubristic pretensions to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 4,2020 )
Behemoth or The Long Parliament by Hobbes Thomas
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-12-09 | Author:Hobbes, Thomas

All according to English measure, and consisting of meadow, arable, and profitable pasture; bogs, woods, and barren mountains being cast in over and above. 2. A revenue was reserved to ...
( Category: History & Theory July 3,2020 )
Hardship and Happiness (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus]

On the Constancy of the Wise Person LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA TRANSLATED BY JAMES KER (1.1) It would not be unfair for me to say, Serenus, that there is as much ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 2,2020 )
The Essential Epicurus by Epicurus
epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Epicurus

Letter to Pythocles About celestial phenomena and scientific study Greetings: In your letter to me, of which Cleon was the bearer, you continue to show me affection which I have ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 2,2020 )
The Trials of Socrates by Plato
epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Plato

1. See Apology 33e1 note. 2. Legend had it that Athens was once obliged to send King Minos of Crete an annual tribute of seven young men and seven maidens ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 28,2020 )
Xunzi: The Complete Text by Xunzi
epub |eng | 2014-10-05 | Author:Xunzi

Those who cross waters mark out the deep places, but if the markers are not clear, people will fall in.20 Those who order the people mark (240) out the Way, ...
( Category: Asian June 27,2020 )
On the Heavens (World Classics) by Aristotle
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Aristotle

That the stars are spherical and are not selfmoved, has now been explained. Part 10 With their order-I mean the position of each, as involving the priority of some and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 27,2020 )

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