Books by Malcolm Schofield

This systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrates on Zeno's "Republic". Using textual evidence, the author examines the Stoic ideals that initiated the natural law tradition of Western political thought.

Saving the City examines ancient political and philosophical thought from Homer to Cicero. it explores the problem of exploiting the philosophical past without reading the present back into it.

In Aristotle's view, Anaxagoras stood out from the other Presocratics as a sober man among the incoherent. This book explores the fragmentary evidence both for Anaxagoras' concept of mind - to which Aristotle was particularly referring - and for his subtle, complex and elusive theory of matter and change.