"This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner's work has been of profound importance for the study of the…
"This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner's work has been of profound importance for the study of the…
Presents what philosophical ethics can be like if freed from the idealizing and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory, making the case that moral imagination is a key part of human virtue by showing the variety of roles it plays in our practical and evaluative lives.-…
From Stoicism to Platonism' describes the change in philosophy from around 100 BCE, when monistic Stoicism was the strongest dogmatic school in philosophy, to around 100 CE, when dualistic Platonism began to gain the upper hand - with huge consequences for all later Western phil…
Is there any point in thinking about the best possible society? Over the last decade or so, a number of political philosophers have argued that such "ideal theory" is a dangerous distraction from the concrete power struggles that make up "real politics." Jonny Thakkar takes a di…
The Middle Platonists consists of detailed chapters on figures of the period, outlining the Life and Works, Philosophy and conclusion for each Platonist. ‘Dillon's excellent work is the first book-length study in any language of the whole development of Platonism in the 300 year…
"In the first half of this book, Hugh S. Chandler updates the theory that rational creatures should be governed by "self love" and concludes that creatures that operate in this way should sometimes be quite nasty. Nevertheless, such creatures can be just as "rational" and "reaso…
