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Alexander of Aphrodisias: Ethical Problems

Product Description: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics has been a central text in moral philosophy since the fourth century BC. The Ethical Problems attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias - the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle - not only shows us how Aristotle's work was discussed in Alexander's own day (c...read more

By R. W. Sharples (trans)

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9781780933689 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics has been a central text in moral philosophy since the fourth century BC.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 1.1-2.15

Product Description: The Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle, are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence. They exemplify the process by which Aristotle's thought came to be organised into 'Aristotelianism', and show how interpretations were influenced by the doctrines of Hellenistic philosophy...read more

By R. W. Sharples

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9781780934563 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle, are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: Quaestiones 2.16-3.15

Product Description: This volume completes the translation in this series of Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle. The Quaestiones are concerned with physics and metaphysics, psychology and divine providence...read more

By R. W. Sharples

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9781780934594 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This volume completes the translation in this series of Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle.

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On the Soul

Product Description: The Supplement transmitted as the second book of On the Soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 200 AD) is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology, including the general hylomorphic account of soul and its faculties, and the theory of vision; questions in ethics (natural instincts, the unity of the virtues, the naturalness of justice and the insufficiency of virtue for happiness); and issues relating to responsibility, chance and fate...read more

By R. W. Sharples (trans)

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9781472557735 | Supplement edition (Bristol Classical Pr, April 10, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Supplement transmitted as the second book of On the Soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl.

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation

By Myrto Hatzimichali (contributor) and R. W. Sharples

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9780521884808 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 22, 2010, cover price $115.00

Nemesius: On the Nature of Man

Product Description: Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD...read more

By R. W. Sharples (trans) and P. J. Van Der Eijk (trans)

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9781846311321 | Liverpool Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD.

Philosophy And The Sciences In Antiquity

By R. W. Sharples (editor)

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9780754651710 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 1, 2005, cover price $119.95

Alexander of Aphrodisias : Supplement to on the Soul

Product Description: The "Supplement" transmitted as the second book of "On the Soul" by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 200 AD) is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology, including the general hylomorphic account of soul and its faculties, and the theory of vision; questions in ethics (natural instincts, the unity of the virtues, the naturalness of justice and the insufficiency of virtue for happiness); and issues relating to responsibility, chance and fate...read more

By Alexander of Aphrodisias and R. W. Sharples (trans)

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9780801442131 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $107.95 | About this edition: The "Supplement" transmitted as the second book of "On the Soul" by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl.

Perspectives on Greek Philosophy: S.V. Keeling Memorial Lectures in Ancient Philosophy, 1992-2002

Product Description: In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlight the interest and importance of ancient philosophy for contemporary study of the subject. This volume brings together the Keeling lectures from leading international figures in ancient and modern philosophy, presented between 1992 and 2002...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By S. V. Keeling (editor) and R. W. Sharples (editor)

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9780754632795 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlight the interest and importance of ancient philosophy for contemporary study of the subject.

Theophrastus of Eresus: On Sweat, on Dizziness and on Fatigue

Product Description: This volume contains modern editions of three physiological treatises by Theophrastus of Eresus, who was Artistotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. The treatises are concerned with human phenomena of sweat, dizziness and fatigue, and exhibit close ties to the contemporary medical literature...read more

By William W. Fortenbaugh, R. W. Sharples and Michael G. Sollenberger

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9789004128903 | Brill Academic Pub, February 1, 2003, cover price $182.00 | About this edition: This volume contains modern editions of three physiological treatises by Theophrastus of Eresus, who was Artistotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School.

Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics: An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy

By R. W. Sharples

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9780415110341 | Routledge, October 11, 1996, cover price $130.00

Miscellaneous:

9780203410752 | Routledge, May 3, 2002, cover price $37.95

Whose Aristotle? Whose Aristotelianism?

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By R. W. Sharples (editor)

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9780754613626 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $99.95

Aspasius: The Earliest Extant Commentary on Aristotles's Ethics

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By Antonina Alberti (editor) and R. W. Sharples (editor)

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9783110160819 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, December 1, 1998, cover price $238.00

Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings Thought and Influence : Commentary Volume 3.1 : Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

Product Description: This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh, R.W. Sharples and D. Gutas . Together with volumes comprising the texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide a new generation of classicists with an up-to-date collection of the fragments and testimonia relating to Theophrastus (c...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By R. W. Sharples and Theophrastus

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9789004111301 | Brill Academic Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.

Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics: An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosophy

Product Description: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By R. W. Sharples

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9780415110358 | Routledge, August 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: First published in 1996.

Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings Thought, and Influence

Product Description: This is the first to appear of the projected volumes of commentary to accompany the texts and translations on Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others ("FHSG" (Philosophia Antiqua 54); Leiden, Brill, 1992)...read more

By R. W. Sharples and Theophrastus

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9789004101746 | Brill Academic Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: This is the first to appear of the projected volumes of commentary to accompany the texts and translations on Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, edited by W.

Quaestiones 2.16-3.15

Product Description: Translation with notes and commentary.

By Alexander of Aphrodisias and R. W. Sharples (trans)

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9780801430886 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Translation with notes and commentary.

Modern Thinkers and Ancient Thinkers: The Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lectures at University College London, 1981-1991

By R. W. Sharples (editor)

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9780813319476 | Westview Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $54.00

Cicero: On Fate With Boethius Consolation V

Product Description: Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day. Cicero's treatise On Fate, though surviving only in a fragmentary and mutilated state, records contributions to the discussion of a central philosophical issue, that of free will and determinism, which are comparable in importance to those of twentieth-century philosophers and indeed sometimes anticipate them...read more

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9780856684753, titled "Cicero: On Fate, With Boethius, Consolation V" | Aris & Phillips, December 1, 1992, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day.

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9780856684760 | Aris & Phillips, December 1, 1992, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Cicero and Boethius did more than anyone else to transmit the insights of Greek philosophy to the Latin culture of Western Europe which has played so influential a part in our civilisation to this day.

Quaestiones 1.1-2.15

By Alexander of Aphrodisias and R. W. Sharples (trans)

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9780801427145 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $109.95

Ethical Problems

By Alexander of Aphrodisias and R. W. Sharples (trans)

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9780801422676 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $106.95

Theophrastean Studies: On Natural Sciences, Physics, and Metaphysics, Ethics, Religion and Rhetoric

Product Description: This third volume in the Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities is closely related to Volume 2, Theophrastus of Eresus, in that it too reflects a new and growing international interest in Aristotle's successor as Head of the Peripatos...read more

By William W. Fortenbaugh and R. W. Sharples (editor)

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9780887381713 | Transaction Pub, May 1, 1988, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: This third volume in the Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities is closely related to Volume 2, Theophrastus of Eresus, in that it too reflects a new and growing international interest in Aristotle's successor as Head of the Peripatos.

Plato: Meno

Product Description: Plato's Meno is the dialogue which more than any other occupies a transitional position between the early Socratic dialogues and the developed middle period theory of the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic. It is thus of particular interest for the insights that it gives us into the process by which Plato arrived at that theory...read more

By R. W. Sharples

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9780856682483 | Aris & Phillips, April 1, 1985, cover price $80.00

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9780856682490 | Aris & Phillips, December 1, 1986, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Plato's Meno is the dialogue which more than any other occupies a transitional position between the early Socratic dialogues and the developed middle period theory of the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic.

Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate

Product Description: This book includes the complete text of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate, a translation and detailed commentary.

By R. W. Sharples

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9780715617397 | Bristol Classical Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book includes the complete text of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate, a translation and detailed commentary.

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