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The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 224,822 ratings — published -400
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,616 ratings — published -350
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.09 — 89,155 ratings — published -380
Meditations (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.28 — 340,388 ratings — published 180
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,285 ratings — published -399
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.33 — 55,611 ratings — published 64
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,661 ratings — published -350
Gorgias (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,607 ratings — published -380
Phaedo (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,358 ratings — published -380
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,359 ratings — published -335
Metaphysics (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,034 ratings — published -330
Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,031 ratings — published -347
The Way Things Are (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,518 ratings — published -55
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 23 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,791 ratings — published -400
Phaedrus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,255 ratings — published -370
De Anima (On the Soul)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,677 ratings — published -350
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,138 ratings — published -385
Meno (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,289 ratings — published -386
Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,897 ratings — published -501
Theaetetus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,513 ratings — published -369
Euthyphro (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,254 ratings — published -399
The Analects (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,930 ratings — published -475
Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,419 ratings — published -340
The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,834 ratings — published -322
Parmenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,061 ratings — published -340
Crito (paper)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,403 ratings — published -385
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.29 — 181,363 ratings — published -350
Early Greek Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,540 ratings — published 1987
Discourses and Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.40 — 11,705 ratings — published 108
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,254 ratings — published 125
Protagoras (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 15 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,783 ratings — published -390
The Laws of Plato (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,966 ratings — published -360
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 985 ratings — published 2000
Ion (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,479 ratings — published -390
On the Republic / On the Laws (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,750 ratings — published -51
Conversations of Socrates (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,966 ratings — published -370
The Categories (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,413 ratings — published -350
Sophist (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 12 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,259 ratings — published -360
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.95 — 566,350 ratings — published -500
The Enneads (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,167 ratings — published 250
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,807 ratings — published 524
Outlines of Scepticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.92 — 828 ratings — published 200
The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,484 ratings — published -322
The Basic Works of Aristotle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,462 ratings — published -322
Philebus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,013 ratings — published -360
Timaeus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,337 ratings — published -360
The Art of Happiness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,200 ratings — published -300
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 — 44,983 ratings — published 49
Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,045 ratings — published 1982
Plato: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ancient-philosophy)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,209 ratings — published 2003
“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
“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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