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1941-, Frede Dorothea, and Laks André, eds. Traditions of theology: Studies in Hellenistic theology : its background and aftermath. Brill, 2002.

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Privalov, Nikolay. The philosophy of the economy. Moral Economics. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1946203.

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The textbook systematically combines topical issues of methodological and philosophical foundations of economics, taking into account the achievements of classical political economy, the German historical school, institutionalism and non-economic disciplines (history, political science, sociology, cybernetics, biology, psychology, law, etc.). The main methodological principles of interdisciplinary communication are consistency, focus on achieving social balance and morality. The instruments of scientific research are adapted to the cultural traditions of Russia by taking into account the insti

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Cook, Brendan. Pursuing eudaimonia: Re-appropriating the Greek philosophical foundations of the Christian apophatic tradition. Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

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Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise ›on Principles and Matter‹ and Its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2024.

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Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise ›on Principles and Matter‹ and Its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2024.

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Porphyry in Syriac: The Treatise ›on Principles and Matter‹ and Its Place in the Greek, Latin, and Syriac Philosophical Traditions. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2024.

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Gazis, George Alexander, and Anthony Hooper, eds. Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621495.001.0001.

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The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man after his/her allotted time has come to an end has a central position in poetry, philosophy and religion, often leading to questions and answers as to how one can best live one’s life, and how can one deal with the burden of mortality that is inherent in every human being. The Greeks devoted a considerable amount of their literary production in an attempt to answer these questions through a variety of different media, whereas similar concerns appear to have been at the

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Buch-Hansen, Gitte. The Johannine Literature in a Greek Context. Edited by Judith M. Lieu and Martinus C. de Boer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739982.013.8.

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This chapter focuses on the scholarly debate in the twentieth century about the relationship between John’s Gospel and Greek philosophy. Initially, attention is drawn to the link, which characterizes the discussion in the first part of the century, between the dating of the Fourth Gospel and its ideological worldview. Next, it turns toward the alleged inspiration from Jewish Wisdom traditions in the composition of the Prologue and demonstrates how scholars’ references to Wisdom have served the most diverse—and even opposing—purposes: to ward off philosophical speculation, to replace Jewish myt

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Adamson, Peter. Philosophical Theology. Edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.38.

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This chapter explores philosophy in the Islamic world. It begins with an overview of ancient Greek philosophy, focusing on how the ideas of Aristotle and Plotinus relate to the teachings of Islam. It then considers the philosophical theology of al-Kindī, the first philosopher of the Islamic world, and his rejection of the Aristotelian conception of God as an intellect who gives rise to an eternal motion by thinking about Himself. It also discusses the philosophical views of thinkers who were known as thefalāsifa(practitioners offalsafa) in the relevant period, including al-Fārābī and Avicenna.

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Hanley, Ryan Patrick, ed. Love. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197536476.001.0001.

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Abstract This volume chronicles the philosophical evolution of the concept of love, with each chapter providing an introduction to a discrete turning point in this evolutionary history. But the book also aims to tell an interconnected story about the larger arc of this evolution, one focused on how the concepts of love bequeathed to us by ancient philosophical and religious traditions were transformed by later philosophers who operated under different conceptions of love’s meaning and horizons. Specifically, where the traditional concepts of love tended to focus on love’s relationship to the t

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Gibson, Twyla Gail. Plato's code: Philosophical foundations of knowledge in education. 2000.

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Machek, David. Self-Cultivation in Chinese and Greco-Roman Philosophy. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350267176.

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In early China and ancient Greece, self-cultivation was considered crucial for leading a flourishing, fulfilled life. In this cross-cultural study, David Machek presents and interprets six influential Greek and Chinese self-cultivation theories advocated by Mengzi, Zhuangzi and Xunzi, as well as Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, in order to put forward the overarching narrative that self-cultivation amounts to strengthening the best part of the human self – the heart in the Chinese context, and the mind in the Greek context. Advancing new readings of classic texts, Machek shows that Greek appro

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Wolfsdorf, David Conan, ed. Early Greek Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758679.001.0001.

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Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its “formative” period. The formative period is the century and a half that extends from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to about the first third of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato’s and Aristotle’s mature ethical works: Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus, and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum

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Ishihara, Yuko, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Daniel Raveh, et al. Intercultural Phenomenology. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350298323.

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Intercultural Phenomenology explores the nature of reality by engaging in a cross-cultural dialogue between two of the most influential philosophical traditions of the 20th century. Drawing on ideas from phenomenology, Japanese philosophy and Zen Buddhism, it follows the philosophers who changed their perception of the world by choosing to suspend judgement. Guided by this philosophical method known as the “epoché”, or suspension of judgment in ancient Greek, it is an introduction to the philosophy and practice of letting objects in the world speak for themselves. Inspired by Nishida Kitaro’s

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Johnson, Aaron P. Early Christianity and the Classical Tradition. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.43.

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Although frequently treated as a separate phenomenon in the Roman Mediterranean, the literary work produced by Christian intellectuals (especially Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Tatian, and Theophilus) in the first centuries of our era is best appreciated within the literary, philosophical, and performative contexts of the Second Sophistic. Their adoption of a stance of free speech toward those in power was formulated as an extension of philosophical modes of self-presentation. Furthermore, the Christian explorations of middle Platonist notions of the Demiurge’s possession or use of logos coalesc

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King, Daniel. Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810513.001.0001.

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Much of the Western intellectual tradition’s interest in pain can be traced back to Greek material. This book investigates one theme in the interest in physical pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire. Traditional accounts of pain in the Roman Empire have either focused on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of ‘suffering’; and fascination with the pained body has often been assumed to be a characteristic of Christian society, rather than ancient culture in general. The book uses ideas from medical anthropology, as well as contemporary philosophical discussio

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Adamson, Peter, and G. Fay Edwards, eds. Animals. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199375967.001.0001.

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It is commonly assumed that serious philosophical reflection on animals goes back only a few hundred years, to the Utilitarians or to the rise of Darwinism. This volume shows that, to the contrary, animals have been a subject of controversy and reflection in all periods of the history of philosophy. We trace the story from Greek and Indian antiquity through the Islamic and Latin medieval traditions, to Renaissance and early modern thought, ending with contemporary ideas about animals. Two main questions that arise throughout the volume are: What capacities can be ascribed to animals, and How s

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Cholbi, Michael J., ed. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400648137.

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This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures. Euthanasia was practiced by Greek physicians as early as 500 BC. In the 20th century, legal and ethical controversies surrounding assisted dying exploded. Many religions and medical organizations led the way in opposition, citing the incompatibility of assisted dying with various religious traditions and with the obligations of medical personnel toward their patients. Today, these practices remain highly con

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Córdova, Nélida Naveros. To Live in the Spirit. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978720688.

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To Live in the Spirit: Paul and the Spirit of God brings to light a fresh understanding of the Greek concept πνε?μα (spirit) in Paul’s ethical teaching. Placing Paul and his mixed audience within the Hellenistic Jewish and Greek (philosophical) traditions of the ancient world, this book examines his new message concerning πνε?μα’s primary function in the acquisition of virtues and avoidance of vices. Looking in detail at the various ways in which Paul views πνε?μα in his seven undisputed letters, Naveros Córdova explores πνε?μα’s development from Paul’s initial ethical reflections in his early

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Dutsch, Dorota M. Pythagorean Women Philosophers. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859031.001.0001.

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Modern scholarly accounts of Greek philosophical history usually exclude women. And yet, from Dixaearchus of Messana to Diogenes Laertius, classical writers record the names of women philosophers from various schools. What is more, pseudonymous treatises and letters (likely dating after the first century CE) articulate the teachings of Pythagorean women. How can this literature inform our understanding of Greek intellectual history? To take these texts at face value would be naïve; to reject them, narrow-minded. This book is a deep examination of the literary tradition surrounding female Pytha

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Zilioli, Ugo. Eliminativism in Ancient Philosophy. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350105195.

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A comparative investigation in the metaphysics of material objects in ancient philosophy, this book provides radically new insights into key themes and areas of ancient thought by drawing on Greek and Buddhist philosophies. Ugo Zilioli explicates the neglected tradition of philosophers who in different ways made material objects either redundant or ontologically dispensable in the ancient world. Chapters cover concepts such as nihilism, indeterminacy, solipsism and tropes, demonstrating how the philosophy of major thinkers Protagoras, Vasubandhu, Gorgias, Nagarjuna, Pyrrho, and the Cyrenaics a

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Rapp, Christof, and Oliver Primavesi, eds. Aristotle's De motu animalium. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835561.001.0001.

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The book contains the proceedings of the 19th Symposium Aristotelicum (Munich 2011), dedicated to Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium, which expounds a common causal explanation of animal self-motion. Besides a philosophical introduction by Christof Rapp and essays on the individual chapters of De Motu Animalium, there is a new critical edition of the Greek text and a philological introduction by Oliver Primavesi, and an English translation of the new text by Benjamin Morison. The philosophical introduction and the essays on the individual chapters aim to give a balanced representation of scholarly

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Mueller, Robert. Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Their Similars. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666994698.

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Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Their Similars explores the work of prominent poets through a philosophical and theological lens. It focuses on the well-travelled yet precarious achievement that is Petrarch’s writing of the sonnet in Italian, his English successors Wyatt and Spenser with their own amatory strategies, and how Shakespeare’s sonnets turn the many difficult corners for imagining a writing against the untimely. Its reach includes ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy; scripture; patristic theology; Renaissance and contemporary poetry; and numerous language traditions including

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Hatzimichali, Myrto. Text and Wisdom in the Letter of Aristeas. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805663.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the Letter of Aristeas, a text that presents Jewish-Greek interaction in a number of arenas, including political power, pilgrimage and travel, material wealth, and everyday life, as well as literary heritage and religious/philosophical wisdom. It focuses on the last two aspects, tracing first how ideas from the Jewish religious tradition are combined with aspects of Greek philosophy and political thought in the ‘sympotic’ scenes where the Greek king receives advice from his wise visitors. It then argues that the measures taken for the preservation of the error-free accura

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Castoriadis, Cornelius. Democracy and Relativism. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881811365.

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In this vibrant debate with intellectuals influenced by Marcel Mauss, including Alain Caillé and Chantal Mouffe, the incisive Greek-French activist and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis addresses the challenge of critical thinking in an international context. The first half explores the tradition of radical self-critique and the prospect of affirming its value in a non-ethnocentric way. While defending ancient Greek contributions to the Western tradition of radical self-critique — including the practice of “relativizing” one's own culture, of engaging in philosophical interrogation, and of est

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Burkert, Walter. Prehistory of Presocratic Philosophy in an Orientalizing Context. Edited by Patricia Curd and Daniel W. Graham. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195146875.003.0003.

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Philosophy up to now is bound to a chain of tradition that starts with Greek texts about 2,400 years ago: the works of Plato and Aristotle have been studied continuously since then; they were transmitted to Persians and Arabs and back to Europe and are still found in every philosophical library. Plato, in turn, was not an absolute beginning; he read and criticized Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Protagoras, and other sophists; Aristotle read and criticized Plato and everything else he could find, up to Anaximander. Even if philosophy is anything but certain about its own identi

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Allen, Barry. Empiricisms. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197508930.001.0001.

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Empiricisms reassesses the values of experience and experiment in European philosophy and comparatively. It traces the history of empirical philosophy from its birth in Greek medicine to its emergence as a philosophy of modern science. A richly detailed account in Part I of history’s empiricisms establishes a context in Part II for reconsidering the work of the so-called radical empiricists—William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, and Gilles Deleuze, each treated in a dedicated chapter. What is “radical” about their work is to return empiricism from epistemology to the ontology and natural ph

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Martel, James R. Anarchist Prophets. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478023043.

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In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism—a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions—dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s promises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts to regain the autho

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Saito, Yuriko. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199672103.003.0009.

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Everyday aesthetics is becoming established as a subdiscipline of aesthetics. In one sense, it is ironic that such a subdiscipline be created anew, because neither the original Greek meaning of the term aesthesis nor Baumgarten’s formulation of aesthetics as a discourse regarding senses excluded any dimensions of our lives from deliberation. Furthermore, until about a century ago, the subject matters of aesthetics in the Western philosophical tradition ranged from natural objects and phenomena, built structures, utilitarian objects, and human actions, to what is today regarded as fine arts....

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Macris, Constantinos, Tiziano Dorandi, and Luc Brisson, eds. Pythagoras redivivus. Academia – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783896659590.

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This original collection of essays by some of the best world specialists of ancient Greek philosophy focuses on the philosophical texts written during the Hellenistic and Imperial times under the names of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Their unknown authors claimed to convey the positions of the pristine Pythagorean School on metaphysics, theology, number philosophy, physics, logic, political philosophy, ethics, and the proper way to live. The most audacious among them presented themselves as the sources from which Plato and Aristotle drew inspiration for the Timaeus and the Categories, and

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LeBar, Mark, ed. Justice. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631741.001.0001.

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From its earliest roots in Greek philosophy, among the most prominent virtues—and arguably the most important of the social virtues—has been justice. While during this same period political philosophy focused intense energy on understanding justice as a property or quality of societies, discussion of justice as a virtue of individuals mostly disappeared. But justice as a virtue of individual character has, along with the other virtues, regained footing as work examining it has increased not only in philosophy but also in social psychology and other empirical fields of study. This volume aims t

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Canevaro, Mirko, and Benjamin Gray, eds. The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748472.001.0001.

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In the Hellenistic period, Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens, and the political thought which it produced. This volume brings together historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to consider varied responses to, and adaptations of, the Classical Athenian political legacy across different Hellenistic contexts and genres. The volume examines the complex processes through which Athenian democratic ideals of equality, freedom, and civic virtue were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or

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Majithia, Roopen. The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350215122.

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This open access book presents a comparative study of two classics of world literature, offering the first sustained study of what unites and divides the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita. Asking what the texts think is the nature of moral action and how it relates to the highest good, Roopen Majithia shows how the Gita stresses the objectivity of knowledge and freedom from being a subject, while the Ethics emphasizes the knower, working out Aristotle’s central commitment to the idea of substance as the primary building block of the world. Yet both the Gita and the Ethics explain variet

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Sachedina, Abdulaziz. Islamic Ethics. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197581810.001.0001.

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Abstract Islamic Ethics introduces the centrality of ethics as the most critical subject in directing the religious-social practice of the Muslim community. It introduces the field of ethics by reinvestigating the Islamic juridical heritage in the classical sources and their application in the contemporary Muslim societies. Until now, Islamic ethics has been studied as part of the philosophical discourse that has been greatly influenced by the Greek ethical tradition traced back to Aristotle. This study marks the departure from that Orientalist approach to uncover the path followed by Muslim l

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Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew. Powers and Properties in Basil of Caesarea’s Homiliae in hexaemeron. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198767206.003.0012.

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This chapter puts Basil’s account of the powers of the elements into dialogue with Galen and Aristotle, pointing out to the way in which the interaction with Greek philosophical sources is intentionally muted. It subsequently illustrates the awkwardness with which Basil, continuing a tradition inaugurated by Philo, attempts to preserve the biblical literalism. It argues that on Basil’s reading the properties of water and earth play important roles in the creation of living beings, and thereby Basil answers the criticism that Genesis portrays God’s creative work as arbitrarily imposed on the na

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Glauthier, Patrick. The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780197787588.001.0001.

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Abstract This book charts the role of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. The sublimity of the study of nature—in other words, the scientific sublime—is an animating force in Manilius, Seneca’s Natural Questions, Lucan, the Aetna, and, in the book’s epilogue, the Elder Pliny. These authors work with, and sometimes against, multiple traditions of ancient philosophy and ancient science, including early Greek natural philosophy, Stoic and Epicurean physics and meteorology, and mathematical astronomy and astrology. Despite this shared intellectu

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Griffel, Frank. The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886325.001.0001.

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This is a comprehensive study of the far-reaching changes that led to a reshaping of the philosophical discourse in Islam during the sixth/twelfth century. Whereas earlier Western scholars thought that Islam’s engagement with the tradition of Greek philosophy ended during that century, more recent analyses suggest its integration into the genre of rationalist Muslim theology (kalam). This book proposes a third view about the fate of philosophy in Islam. It argues that in addition to this integration, Muslim theologians picked up the discourse of philosophy in Islam (falsafa) and began to produ

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Le Boulluec, Alain. The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries. Edited by David Lincicum and Nicholas Moore. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814092.001.0001.

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Abstract This book was born of an interest in debates about ‘gnosis’. The subject was inspired by certain analogies between the construction of heresy and the representation of madness described by Michel Foucault in Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (Madness and Civilization). In different periods one can discern the decision to separate normal from abnormal, the suppression of the voice of the other, the constitution of rationality by means of exclusion. An examination of the ancient sources, on the other hand, confirmed the reversal in the pioneering work of Walter Bauer (1934). Contra

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Kolozova, Katarina, William Paul Cockshott, and Greg Michaelson. Defending Materialism. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350447363.

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Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted.DefendingMaterialismfollows the political and theoretical background of this intense philosophical controversy, defending atomistic and mechanical materialism against idealist paradigms. These accounts range from the explicit idealism criticised by Lenin and Einstein to the implicit Hegelian idealism that influenced Soviet dialectical materialism. Following several key threads, the authors trace how the idea of atoms has changed over the centuries, h

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Curd, Patricia, and Daniel W. Graham, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195146875.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy brings together leading international scholars to study the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute Presocratic philosophy. In the sixth and fifth centuries bc a new kind of thinker appeared in Greek city-states, dedicated to finding the origins of the world and everything in it, using observation and reason rather than tradition and myth. We call these thinkers Presocratic philosophers, and recognize them as the first philosophers of the Western tradition, as well as the originators of scientific thinking. New textual discoverie

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Bianchi, Emanuela, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes, eds. Antiquities Beyond Humanism. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805670.001.0001.

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Countering an unflagging modernist infatuation with the new, Antiquities beyond Humanism maps out the ground for a richer and more sustained encounter with Greco-Roman antiquity, excavating an ante-humanism that nonetheless does not seek any kind of return to a pre-humanist arcadia. The volume arises from a commitment to actively engage the ancient philosophical tradition as a powerful field through which to tackle some of the most urgent questions addressed by the new materialisms and forms of post- and non-humanism. The papers gathered here take up ancient Greek philosophical and literary te

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Dupré, John. Processes, Organisms, Kinds, and the Inevitability of Pluralism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636814.003.0002.

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One view of ontology has dominated Western philosophy since the Greeks: the most basic furnishings of the world are things or, in more technical philosophical terms, substances. These are thought of as integrated, persisting through time, not dependent on anything external for their existence, and as the bearers of properties. They are also the subjects of change. This chapter begins with the proposal that we should treat organisms not, as is traditional, as a kind of thing or substance, but as a kind of process. The author begins by explaining this idea a bit further and outlining some of the

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