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Ancient Philosophy Books
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The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 226,785 ratings — published -400
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,661 ratings — published -350
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,696 ratings — published -380
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.28 — 352,375 ratings — published 180
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,450 ratings — published -399
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.32 — 57,011 ratings — published 64
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,005 ratings — published -350
Phaedo (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,596 ratings — published -380
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,678 ratings — published -335
Gorgias (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,764 ratings — published -380
Metaphysics (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,184 ratings — published -330
Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,058 ratings — published -347
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,615 ratings — published -55
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,346 ratings — published -385
Phaedrus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,403 ratings — published -370
De Anima (On the Soul)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,719 ratings — published -350
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,166 ratings — published -400
Meno (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,404 ratings — published -386
Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,980 ratings — published -501
Euthyphro (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,392 ratings — published -399
Theaetetus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,570 ratings — published -369
The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,910 ratings — published -322
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,131 ratings — published -475
Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,440 ratings — published -340
Parmenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,090 ratings — published -340
Crito (paper)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,563 ratings — published -385
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,912 ratings — published 125
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,090 ratings — published -350
Early Greek Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,551 ratings — published 1987
Discourses and Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.40 — 12,074 ratings — published 108
Protagoras (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,825 ratings — published -390
The Laws of Plato (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,984 ratings — published -360
Ion (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,530 ratings — published -390
On the Republic / On the Laws (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,773 ratings — published -51
Conversations of Socrates (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,988 ratings — published -370
The Categories (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,433 ratings — published -350
Sophist (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 12 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,302 ratings — published -360
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 996 ratings — published 2000
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,325 ratings — published -500
Outlines of Scepticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 837 ratings — published 200
The Basic Works of Aristotle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,466 ratings — published -322
Timaeus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,373 ratings — published -360
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,873 ratings — published 49
The Enneads (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,174 ratings — published 250
Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,058 ratings — published 1982
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,044 ratings — published 524
Plato: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,225 ratings — published 2003
What Is Ancient Philosophy? (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,224 ratings — published 1995
Dialogues and Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,253 ratings — published 64
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 74,572 ratings — published 400
“Any polis which is truly so called, and is not merely one in name, must devote itself to the end of encouraging goodness. Otherwise, political association sinks into a mere alliance.”
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“Most radical of all in their scepticism were the Cynics. From Diogenes until the last ‘dogs’ of the ancient world, the Cynics defined themselves first by ‘snarling’ at the institutions, rituals, beliefs and assumptions by which their contemporaries lived. To list their different acts of critique would be to compose a long priamel: ‘Not this, not that, and definitely not that’, says the Cynic in his scorn for all things merely conventional. In his seemingly universal nay-saying, the Cynic avoids traditional clothes, jewellery and bodily adornments for his own ‘uniform’; he restricts his diet; does not live in a house; derides bathing, sports, the Games; scoffs at festivals, sacrifice, prayer and religious life generally; does not marry, dodges work and steers clear of the courts, assembly, army and other arenas of political participation. He even strives to bust out of old patterns of talking, and tosses up for himself a wild new language.”
― Cynics
― Cynics
