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Metaphysics is Aristotle's most famous and influential philosophical work, consisting of 14 books. The name Metaphysics is not Aristotle's – it came later because the writings were placed "behind physics" (meta ta physika).
In the book of interviews, Pierre Hadot explains through his personal life story and conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson why ancient philosophy was above all a way of life and a spiritual exercise, and not just theoretical knowledge.
Plato's dialogue Gorgias (c. 380 BC) in which Socrates debates with Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles about the nature of rhetoric, power, justice, and the good life. A harsh criticism of the Sophists and their oratory as flattery rather than knowledge.
Foucault explores how in antiquity subjectivity and truth were linked through the relationship to the body, pleasures, and self-care, and how this connection gradually changed towards the Christian model of confession.
Second, revised edition of the Croatian translation of the famous work Cato Maior de Senectute (44 BC). A philosophical dialogue in which Cato the Elder refutes prejudices about old age and celebrates its advantages.
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written in the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Consisting of 13 chapters, it has long been hailed as the finest work of military strategy and tactics of its time.