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Politics & Poetics (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Aristotle; Jowett, Benjamin & Butcher, S.H.; Kallen, Horace M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2285623

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed. 1979 Full-Leather. xxi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen and portraits by Leonard Baskin. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together w...
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Some Aspects of the Greek Genius

By: Butcher, S.H.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: 2305177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition. Spine edges lightly rubbed, spine lightly toned, minor pencil marginalia on contents page only. 1916 Hard Cover. vii, 324, 4 pp. Green cloth boards. Deckled edge. An analysis of the thought of Ancient Greece and its influence on contemporary philosophy, political thought, and literature. CONTENTS: What We Owe to Greece; The Greek Idea of the State; Sophocles; The Melancholy of the Greeks; The Written and the Spoken Word; The Unity of Learning; The Dawn of Romanticism in Greek Poetry.
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The Sophists

By: Guthrie, W.K.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2305280

ISBN: 0521096669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Two stickers on rear wrapper, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1977 Trade Paperback. ix, 345 pp. The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, ...
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Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

By: Hall, Edith

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin Press: 2019

Seller ID: 2302444

ISBN: 0735220808

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. An exceptional copy. 2019 Hard Cover. Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. According to Aristotle, happiness is not about well-being, but instead a lasting state of contentment, which should be the ultimate goal of human life. We become happy through finding a purpose, realizing our potential, and modifying our behavior to become the best version of ourselves.
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Mathematics in Aristotle

By: Heath, Sir Thomas

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2304836

ISBN: 0198143613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Bottom corner of front board bumped, ink name on front free endpaper. 1949 Hard Cover. xiv, 291 pp. Heath's work in study and translation of Greek mathematical works is partially responsible for the modern understanding of Archimedes's contribution to the field. Heath (1861-1940) was a preeminent authority on ancient Greek mathematics, a distinction all the more remarkable by its being achieved amidst a full career as a civil servant. Among numerous editions and monographs he is perhaps best known for A History of Greek Mathematics (2 vols, 1921), which immediately be...
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Dialogues de Platon. Par le Traducteur de la Republique, in Two Volumes: Tome Premier; Tome Second.

By: Plato (Platon); Grou, Jean Nicolas

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey: 1770

Seller ID: 2305606

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rebound: cloth spine and corners, marbled boards, new end sheets. Ink name and stamp on title page of each volume. 1770 Hard Cover. [viii], 424; [vi], 442 pp. 12mo. French translations of eight of Plato's Dialogues: Theaetetus; Protagoras; Hippias I; Hippias II; Gorgias; Ion; Philebus; and Meno. Translated from the Greek by Abbe Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803), who already had translated Plato's Laws and the Republic. Grou, a Jesuit, fled to Holland when his order was suppressed in France, and it was there that these Dialogues were published. Later he returned to Paris and adopted the alias Lecl...
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Loix de Platon. Par le Traducteur de la Republique, in Two Volumes: Tome Premier; Tome Second. [with] La Science du Bonhomme Richard, Moyen Facile de Payer les Impots. Traduit de l'Anglois: Troisieme Edition, Exactement Semblable a la Premiere. [Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth]

By: Plato (Platon); Grou, Jean Nicolas; [Franklin, Benjamin]

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Amsterdam / A Philadelphie. Se vend a Paris, Marc-Michel Rey / Chez Ruault, Libraire: 1769

Seller ID: 2305607

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

1769 first French edition of Plato's The Laws, bound together with a 1778 third edition of Benjamin Franklin's La Science du Bonhomme Richard (The Way to Wealth). Some pencil marginalia in 'Richard', edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners, tiny piece of volume II spine label missing. viii, [8], 398, [2], 151, [5]; 502 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full leather, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and triple rules, marbled edges and endpapers. French translation of The Laws, a series of twelve Platonic dialogues written towards the end of his life. Grou, a Jesuit, fled to Holland when his order...
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The Republic and Other Works

By: Plato; Jowett, B. [Benjamin]

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor Books: 1973

Seller ID: 2272372

ISBN: 0385094973

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Page edges faintly toned. 1973 Mass Market Paperback. 552 pp. Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy.
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Plato's The Republic (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 153)

By: Plato; Jowett, Benjamin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1941

Seller ID: 2303162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1 inch closed jacket tear with associated 1 inch crease, jacket price clipped with new ink price on flap. 1941 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 397, [10] pp. Red cloth, gilt titles. Benjamin Jowett's classic translation of Plato's most well-known work, which enumerates much of his political philosophy.
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Lysis, or Friendship; The Symposium; Phaedrus (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Plato; Jowett, Benjamin; Oates, Whitney J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2278053

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

1979 Full-Leather. xiv, [4], 208 pp. 8vo. Burgundy full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the original Greek by Benjamin Jewett, with his introductory analyses, a preface by Whitney J. Oates, and illustrations by Eugene Karlin. Three dialogues by the famous disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, best known for The Republic.
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Analysis of Aristotle's Logic, with Remarks.

By: Reid, Thomas

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for William Creech; and Sold by J. Murray, Fleet-Street, London: 1806

Seller ID: 2305909

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges rubbed, owner bookplate of Thomas Freer Ash and Mary Louisa Ash on front endpaper, front and end matter foxed, ink name on title page. 1806 Full-Leather. 150 pp. Contemporary full calf, red leather spine label, gilt titles and rules. First included as an appendix to one of Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man, and apparently printed separately here for the first time (according to advertisement by publisher preceding text). Thomas Reid was the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, and a co-founder of the Royal Society of...
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The Trial of Socrates

By: Stone, I.F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown: 1988

Seller ID: 2305131

ISBN: 0316817589

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Book review laid in. Faint edge wear. 1988 Hard Cover. The Athens of Socrates's time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet this city put Socrates, its most famous philosopher, to death. Presumably this was because it citizens did not like what he was teaching. Yet he had been teaching there all his life, unmolested. Why did they wait until he was 70, and had only a few years to live, before executing him? In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone rang...
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A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles. (Small Books on Great Subjects No. V. [5]) [with] A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates to the Coming of Christ. (Small Books on Great Subjects No. VI. [6])

By: [Cornwallis, Caroline Francis]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1844

Seller ID: 2305171

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Two works bound together in one volume. Edges a bit rubbed, front hinge beginning to weaken, ink gift note on front endpaper, front and end matter a bit foxed. 1844 Half-Leather. xviii, 99; 119 pp. 16mo. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles and decorations, marbled paper over boards. A study of the history of Greek philosophy by an English feminist writer who published quite a few books on history, science, and philosophy.
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Plato's Theaetetus (The Idol, June, 1963, Volumes XXXIX, Number 4)

By: [Plato]; Lewis, Tayler; Somers, Wayne; Peterson, Sven

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Union College: 1963

Seller ID: 2304694

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very minor general wear. 1963 Large Softcover. 61 pp. Translated by Tayler Lewis, Profeesor of Greek, Union College, 1849-1877. Edited by Wayne Somers. Introduction by Sven Peterson. The Theaetetus is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge, written circa 369 BCE. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, knowledge as true judgment, and, finally, knowledge as a true judgment with an account. Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory. Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited fr...
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