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Tetrabiblos ‘four books’, also known in Greek as Apotelesmatiká “Effects”, and in Latin as Quadripartitum “Four Parts”, is a text on the philosophy and practice ...
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On the Soul is a major treatise written by Aristotle c. 350 BC. Although its topic is the soul, it is not about spirituality but ...
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The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety ...
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Metaphysics is one of the principal works of Aristotle and the first major work of the branch of philosophy with the same name. The principal ...
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For many centuries, Aristotle’s Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into ...
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De rerum natura (English: On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. ...
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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it ...
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One of the greatest works of philosophy and political theory ever produced, Plato’s The Republic has shaped western thought for thousands of years, ...
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