Employs a contemporary medical perspective to explore ancient ideas about the workings of the body, the soul and the mind which underpin the notion of consciousness challenging, thereby, some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All...Loe edasi...
Platos Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to situate Platos ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Platos me...Loe edasi...
From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, phrenitis, to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and me...Loe edasi...
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and ho...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Platos time, fourth century BCE, through to the sixth century CE. The existing evidence allows us to glimpse a wider pattern of female ph...Loe edasi...
Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many...Loe edasi...
