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137 Roman philosophyIn David Sedley (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Greek and Roman philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 184. 2003.
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2. medieval philosophyIn Anthony Kenny (ed.), The Oxford history of Western philosophy, Oxford University Press. 1994.
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2Seneca on the self : why now?In Shadi Bartsch & David Wray (eds.), Seneca and the self, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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23The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander PolyhistorIn Malcolm Schofield (ed.), Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC: new directions for philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 139. 2013.
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3The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 2, Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and BibliographyCambridge University Press. 1989.This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical apparatus, and also supply detailed notes on the more difficult texts. This volume…Read more
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5Shame and NecessityUniversity of California Press. 1993.We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prep…Read more
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36Images and Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenistic World (edited book)University of California Press. 1993.This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format of two essays followed by a response. Conveying the direction and focus of Hellenistic learning, eighteen leading scholars discuss issues of liberty versus domination, appropriation versus accommodat…Read more
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14A Free Will: Origins of the Notion in Ancient Thought (edited book)University of California Press. 2011.Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle--who, he argues, had no notion of a free will--and ends with Aug…Read more
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1300From Epicurus to Epictetus: studies in Hellenistic and Roman philosophyOxford University Press. 2006.A. A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods--Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and politics, psychology, epistemology, and cosmology.
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6Plotinus Ennead II.4 On matter: translation with an introduction and commentaryParmenides Publishing. 2022.A new translation, with an introduction and philosophical commentary, of Plotinus' Ennead II.4 On Matter, discussing the philosopher's view on intelligible beings and the nature of the physical world.
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19The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Greek Philosophy: An Attempt to Reconstruct Their ThoughtsPhilosophical Quarterly 17 (68): 267-268. 1967.
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21Greek Skepticism: a study in epistemology. by Charlotte L. Stough. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. 167.) (review)Philosophy 46 (175): 77-. 1971.
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Stoic PsychologyIn Malcolm Schofield, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld & Keimpe Algra (eds.), Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 560-584. 1999.
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14European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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7How Does Socrates' Divine Sign Communicate with Him?In Sara Ahbel‐Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell. 2005.
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4Plato and Hellenistic PhilosophyIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Orientation Plato in Stoicism Plato in Academic Scepticism Plato in early Pyrrhonism Plato in Epicureanism Conclusion.
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27The Stoics on World‐Conflagration and Everlasting RecurrenceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (S1): 13-37. 1985.
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23Greek Models of Mind and SelfHarvard University Press. 2015.A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.
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35The modes of scepticism. Ancient texts and modern interpretationsJournal of the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 474-476. 1988.
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32The Megarians Klaus Döring: Die Megariker: kommentierte Sammlung der Testimonien. Pp. xii+185. Amsterdam: Grüner, 1972. Cloth, fl.80 (review)The Classical Review 25 (02): 232-234. 1975.
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31The Letter to Herodotus Jean Bollack, Mayotte Bollack, Heinz Wismann: La Lettre d'Épicure. Pp. 312. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1971. Paper, 27fr (review)The Classical Review 24 (01): 46-48. 1974.
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29The Eighth Budé Congress - Association Guillaume Budé: Actes du VIII e congrès. Pp. 819. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1969. Paper, 50 fr (review)The Classical Review 22 (01): 93-96. 1972.
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36The Cynics in Translation Léonce Paquet: Les Cyniques grecs. Fragments et témoignages. (Collection philosophica, 4.) Pp. 304. Ottawa: L'Universite d'Ottawa, 1975. Paper (review)The Classical Review 30 (01): 53-54. 1980.