books by Martin Ostwald

books by Martin Ostwald

books:

Martin Ostwald

Nicomachean Ethics (The Library of Liberal Arts)

Aristotle

Bobbs-Merrill, 1962

We Reach Our Complete Perfection Through Habit
I read this book for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. I think Aristotle's ethics is his most seminal work in philosophy. In the early 1960's virtue ethics came to fore. It is a retrieval of Aristotle. It has very close parallels to the ancient Chinese philosophy of ...

From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
Martin Ostwald

University of California Press, 1989

Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been ...

A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers (9780312085353, 0312085354)
Lee A. Jacobus, Aristotle, ...

Bedford Books, 1994

Plato's Statesman

Plato

Hackett Publishing Company, 1992

Plato's most disturbing political dialogue
This book, the culmination of Benardete's masterful translation of what Jacob Klein was pleased to call `Plato's Trilogy,' includes not only a translation of `The Statesman' but also a superb commentary with notes. (Benardete, btw, is something of a rarity these days, ...

Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle

Martin Ostwald

Prentice Hall, 1962

Translations differ
It would be helpful if Amazon didn't pool together reviews from different translations. Note to Amazon: the customer reviews can be very helpful and have motivated me to purchase many books. But reviews for widely translated books should be specific to the ...

The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry

James W. Halporn, Martin Ostwald, ...

Hackett Publishing Company, 1994

best available text on meter for Latin, good for Greek too
This is one of the only elementary texts I've found that explains Latin meter correctly and from first principles. Handbooks of Greek meter often treat Latin in a 2-page appendix, saying little more than "The Romans borrowed all these meters." This book, on the ...