Reading list for philosophy

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Introduction to Philosophy

Introduction to Ancient Philosophy

Being a Man: The Roman Virtus As a Contribution to Moral Philosophy (European Studies in the History of Science and Ideas)

Juhani Sarsila. (2006). Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 0820498947 ISSN 978-0820498942
This is a philosophical study of the Roman view of manliness, virtus, as a virtue. As a contribution to the our understanding of ancient Roman moral concepts and ideals, the book proceeds to a broader perspective of how the Roman concept of virtus as a virtue fitted in with the other cardinal virtues esteemed in the ancient world. Contributed by Gnaeus Equitius Marinus
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Roman Manliness: "Virtus" and the Roman Republic

Myles McDonnell. (2006). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521827884 ISSN 978-0521827881
Myles McDonnell shows how Roman manliness was expressed and displayed by contest in the religion, culture, and politics of the late Republic. Contributed by Gnaeus Equitius Marinus
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Introduction to Ancient Logic

{{Bookinfo | title= Socratic Logic 3e: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles | author= Peter Kreeft | date= 2008 | publisher= St. Augustine Press | ISBN= 978-1587318054 | ISSN= | worldcat= | comment= This is one of two good introductions in training one how to reason in ancient logic. Modern logic books deal with logic from the standpoint of boolean logic. | name= A. Sempronius Regulus

{{Bookinfo | title= An Introduction To Traditional Logic: Classical Reasoning For Contemporary Minds | author= Scott Sullivan | date= 2005 | publisher= BookSurge | ISBN= 978-1419616716 | ISSN= | worldcat= | comment= This is the other good introduction to ancient logic that also shows how it is the logic natural to how the human mind works. It includes a great introduction to ancient theories of the mind and cognition as part of its discussion of logic. | name= A. Sempronius Regulus

History of Philosophy (General)

History of Ancient Philosophy

Socratic Schools

Academic Philosophy (Platonist Schools)

Cynicism

Epicureanism

The Epicurus Reader

Epicurus, Brad Inwood,Lloyd P. Gerson. (1994). Hackett Publishing. ISBN 0872202410

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Lucretius; On the Nature of things

Lucretius, W.H.D Rouse. (1924). Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 0674992008

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Lucretius and Epicurus

Diskin Clay. (1983). Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801415594

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Paradosis and survival : three chapters in the history of Epicurean philosophy

Diskin Clay. (1998). University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472108964

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Prosopography of Roman Epicureans from the second century B.C. to the second century A.D.

Catherine J. Castner. (1988). Peter Lang. ISBN 3820499334

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The sculpted word : Epicureanism and philosophical recruitment in ancient Greece

Bernard Frischer. (1982). University of California Press. ISBN 0520041909

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Live unnoticed = (Lathe biōsas) : on the vicissitudes of an Epicurean doctrine

Geert Roskam. (2007). Brill. ISBN 9004161716

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Pythagoreanism

Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers,

Diogenes Laertius, R.D. Hicks trans.. (1925). Loeb Classical Library. ISBN 0674992032

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The Pythagorean golden verses : with introduction and commentary

Hierocles,Johan Carl Thom. (1995). Brill. ISBN 9004101055

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On the Pythagorean way of life

Iamblichus,John Dillon,Jackson Hershbell eds.. (1991). Scholars Press. ISBN 1555405223

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Ancient philosophy, mystery, and magic : Empedocles and Pythagorean tradition

Peter Kingsley. (1995). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198149883

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