Schofield, Malcolm

Saving the city : philosopher-kings and other classical paradigms by Malcolm Schofield( )

21 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in English and held by 2,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How are political communities cemented together? Are rights inherent in the idea of citizenship? Saving the City examines ancient political thought from Homer to Cicero. It explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it, discussing how far we can use categories such as the heroic code, utopianism, ideology, the economy or political rights to examine the evidence. This erudite and stimulating book offers fresh resolutions of disputed issues in well known texts such as Homer's Iliad and the Politics of Aristotle, and new explorations of some less familiar material, notably Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Eudemiau Ethics, Stoic political theory and Cicero's Republic

Plato : political philosophy by Malcolm Schofield( )

18 editions published between 2006 and 2012 in English and held by 1,667 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"In this general account of Plato's political thought, a leading scholar of ancient Greek philosophy explores its key themes: education, democracy and its shortcomings, the role of knowledge in government, utopia and the idea of community, money and its grip on the psyche, ideological uses of religion. Between them these define what Plato considered to be the fundamental challenges for politics. All remain live issues. On all of them Plato took radical and uncomfortable positions." "Assuming a broad range of readers - with backgrounds in varied fields (politics, philosophy, classics, history) - Malcolm Schofield articulates and analyses Plato's main lines of thought, illustrating them with a liberal use of translated excerpts, and highlighting affinities with modern theorists from Machiavelli and Mill to Rawls and Habermas. Schofield's distinctive approach to Plato's problems constitutes a lucid and accessible guide for those needing an introduction, and at the same time will provide those who know Plato well with much food for thought."--Jacket

The Cambridge history of Greek and Roman political thought by C. J Rowe( Book )

47 editions published between 2000 and 2016 in English and Chinese and held by 1,054 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Beginning with Homer and ending in late antiquity with Christian and pagan reflections on divine and human order, this volume is the first general and comprehensive treatment of Rome ever to be published in English. Its international team of distinguished scholars includes historians of law, politics, culture and religion, as well as philosophers. The volume will long remain an accessible and authoritative guide to Greek and Roman thinking about government and community." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006274510-d.html

Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC : new directions for philosophy by Malcolm Schofield( )

18 editions published between 2012 and 2017 in English and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism"--

The presocratic philosophers : a critical history with a selection of texts by G. S Kirk( Book )

46 editions published between 1971 and 2010 in English and held by 979 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide the basis for a detailed critical study of the principal individual thinkers of the time. Besides serving as an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek philosophy and in the history of science, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in philosophy, theology, the history of ideas and of the ancient world, and indeed to anyone who wants an authoritative account of the Presocratics."--Publisher description

Aristotle by Jonathan Barnes( Book )

41 editions published between 1975 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 977 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Doubt and dogmatism : studies in Hellenistic epistemology by Malcolm Schofield( Book )

32 editions published between 1979 and 2002 in English and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected papers presented at a conference held at Oriel College in 1978. Bibliography: p. [309]-316. Includes indexes

The Norms of nature : studies in Hellenistic ethics( Book )

29 editions published between 1985 and 2011 in English and held by 692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Language and logos : studies in ancient Greek philosophy presented to G.E.L. Owen by G. E. L Owen( Book )

26 editions published between 1982 and 2006 in English and held by 652 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The essays in this volume were written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of G. E. L. Owen, who by his essays and seminars on ancient Greek philosophy has made a contribution to its study that is second to none. The authors, from both sides of the Atlantic, include not only scholars whose main research interests lie in Greek philosophy, but others best known for their work in general philosophy. All are pupils or younger colleagues of Professor Owen who are indebted to his practice of philosophical scholarship as a first-order philosophical activity. At the heart of G. E. L. Owen's work has been a preoccupation with the role of philosophical reflection on language in the metaphysics and epistemology of Plato, Aristotle and other ancient Greek thinkers. This is accordingly the general topic of the present volume, which includes five papers on Plato's critical dialogues and seven on Aristotle, prefaced by two on Heraclitus and followed by a study of the debate in Hellenistic philosophy on the sorites. This is a book for specialists in Greek philosophy and philosophers of language which will also be of interest to some linguists

The Stoic idea of the city by Malcolm Schofield( Book )

27 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Stoic Idea of the City offers a pioneering treatment of the political philosophy of ancient Stoicism. Classical scholar Malcolm Schofield explores the Stoics' notions of natural law and world citizenship, which - as Martha Nussbaum notes in her new foreword - constitute their most important legacy to modern political thought. But Schofield begins by excavating from scattered and underused textual evidence the Platonized conception of erotic love treated by Zeno, founder of the school, as a key principle of political unity. An epilogue specially written for this edition further enhances this text as a standard work on Stoicism."--Jacket