This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy - including several published here for the first time - by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. This volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issue[...]

This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life - and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be stud[...]

Bringing between two covers the most influential and accessible articles on Plato's Republic, this collection illuminates what is widely held to be the most important work of Western philosophy and political theory. It will be valuable not only to philosophers, but to political theorists, historians[...]