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Author: Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198236030
Aristotle''s teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years; it is of vital importance to the question of the relevance of his ethics in the present day. Aristotle''s admirers struggle to read a comprehensive account of the supreme happiness into the Nicomachean Ethics; Kenny argues that those who are prepared to take the neglected Eudemian Et
Author: Epictetus
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419164231
He that hath grasped the administration of the World, who hath learned that this Community, which consists of God and men, is the foremost and mightiest and most comprehensive of all: -- that from God have descended the germs of life, not to my father only and father's father, but to all things that are born and grow upon the earth, and in an especial manner to those endowed with Reason (for those
Author: Weiss, Roslyn
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780195140767
In this radical new interpretation of Plato''s Meno, Roslyn Weiss exposes the farcical nature of the slave-boy-demonstration and challenges the widely held assumption that the Meno introduces Platonic metaphysical and epistemological innovations into an otherwise Socratic dialogue. She shows that the Meno is intended as a defense not of all inquiry but of moral inquiry alone, and that it locates t
Author: Plato
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435346444
The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a series of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposion or drinking party at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
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Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766179431
This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through December 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Re
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Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780971345966
The philosophy of Epicurus (c. 341-271 B. C. E.), has been a quietly pervasive influence for more than two millennia. At present, when many long revered ideologies are proven empty, Epicureanism is powerfully and refreshingly relevant, offering a straightforward way of dealing with the issues of life and death.The chapters in this book provide a kaleidoscope of contemporary opinions about Epicurus
Author: Guthrie, William Keith Chambers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521096669
The third volume of Professor Guthrie''s great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415002974
Plato's Meno in Focus brings together in one volume an English translation of the text, a selection of illuminating articles on themes in the dialogue published between 1965 and 1985 and an introduction which sets the Meno in its historical context and opens up the key philosophical issues discussed in the various articles. Many of the articles have until now been available only in the most highly
Author: Thomas M. Johnson
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766179448
This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through June 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Religi
Author: Aristotle/ Ackrill, J. L. (EDT)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN : 9780691020433
In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle''s philosophy. In selecting the texts Professor J. L. Ackrill has drawn on his broad experience of teaching graduate classes, and his choice reflects issues of current philos
Author: Plato
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435310353
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN : 9780691037660
In this wide-ranging work Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. These ima
Author: Salles, Ricardo (EDT)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199261307
Leading figures in ancient philosophy present nineteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on Aristotle''
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198149606
This book assesses Plato''s penal code within the tradition of Greek penology. Saunders provides a detailed exposition of the emergence of the concept of publicly controlled, rationally calculated, and socially directed punishment in the period between Homer and Plato. He outlines the serious debate that ensued in the fifth century over the opposition by philosophers to popular judicial assumption
Author: Plato/ Griffith, Tom (TRN)/ Rutherford, R. B. (INT)/ Griffith, Tom
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN : 9780375411748
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato''s dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the deceptively unassuming Symposium introduces--in the guise o
Author: Gerasimos Santas
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631228868
This volume explores Plato's and Aristotle's theories about good things, goodness, and the best life for human beings, and draws comparisons between ancient and modern theories of good and justice.Goodness and Justice argues that goodness was the most fundamental normative concept in the ethics of Plato and Aristotle, and illustrates how they used their functional and formal theories of good to bu
Author: John Portmann
Publisher : Griffin / St. Martins Press
ISBN : 9781403961426
Intriguing, and occasionally unsettling, In Defense of Sin is a refreshingly frank exploration of some real facts of life. Portmann gathers an on-target collection of great writers on transgressions large and small. Read about defenses for promiscuity, greed, deceit, gossip, lust, breaking the golden rule, and more--and use this unusual guide to decide for yourself if sin has a place in our contem
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Publisher : Yale
ISBN : 9780300077292
Among Plato''s later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R.E. Allen provides a superb tra
Author: Balthasar Gracian
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570627453
This perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, these teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal concerns such as friendship, morality, managing emotions, and effective leadership. The Art of Worldl
Author: Aristotle
Publisher : Nuvision Publications
ISBN : 9781595479723
This book is a treatise on dialectical argument, a practice perhaps as old as human language, systemized for the first time by Aristotle. This seminal text offers many important insights into his conception of logic, his development of the notion of the predicables, and his ideas on the method of philosophical inquiry itself. Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for
Aristotle on the Perfect Life
Author: Anthony KennyPublisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198236030
Aristotle''s teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years; it is of vital importance to the question of the relevance of his ethics in the present day. Aristotle''s admirers struggle to read a comprehensive account of the supreme happiness into the Nicomachean Ethics; Kenny argues that those who are prepared to take the neglected Eudemian Et
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The Golden Sayings
Author: Epictetus Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419164231
He that hath grasped the administration of the World, who hath learned that this Community, which consists of God and men, is the foremost and mightiest and most comprehensive of all: -- that from God have descended the germs of life, not to my father only and father's father, but to all things that are born and grow upon the earth, and in an especial manner to those endowed with Reason (for those
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Virtue in the Cave
Author: Weiss, RoslynPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9780195140767
In this radical new interpretation of Plato''s Meno, Roslyn Weiss exposes the farcical nature of the slave-boy-demonstration and challenges the widely held assumption that the Meno introduces Platonic metaphysical and epistemological innovations into an otherwise Socratic dialogue. She shows that the Meno is intended as a defense not of all inquiry but of moral inquiry alone, and that it locates t
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Symposium
Author: Plato Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435346444
The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a series of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposion or drinking party at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
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Platonist Magazine: An Exponent of Philosophic Truth (January to December 1887)
Author: Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766179431
This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through December 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Re
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Epicurus: His Continuing Influence and Contemporary Relevance
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ISBN : 9780971345966
The philosophy of Epicurus (c. 341-271 B. C. E.), has been a quietly pervasive influence for more than two millennia. At present, when many long revered ideologies are proven empty, Epicureanism is powerfully and refreshingly relevant, offering a straightforward way of dealing with the issues of life and death.The chapters in this book provide a kaleidoscope of contemporary opinions about Epicurus
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The Sophists
Author: Guthrie, William Keith ChambersPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521096669
The third volume of Professor Guthrie''s great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so
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Plato's Meno in Focus
Author: Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415002974
Plato's Meno in Focus brings together in one volume an English translation of the text, a selection of illuminating articles on themes in the dialogue published between 1965 and 1985 and an introduction which sets the Meno in its historical context and opens up the key philosophical issues discussed in the various articles. Many of the articles have until now been available only in the most highly
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Platonist Magazine: An Exponent of Philosophic Truth (January to June 1888)
Author: Thomas M. JohnsonPublisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766179448
This book contains the monthly editions of The Platonist Magazine for January through June 1887. The Editor endeavored to make this magazine interesting and valuable alike to the thinker, the scholar and the philosopher. This volume is offered to those who are desirous to become more familiar with philosophic and mystical literature. The scope of the journal will include not only the Wisdom Religi
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A New Aristotle Reader
Author: Aristotle/ Ackrill, J. L. (EDT)Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN : 9780691020433
In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle''s philosophy. In selecting the texts Professor J. L. Ackrill has drawn on his broad experience of teaching graduate classes, and his choice reflects issues of current philos
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Symposium
Author: Plato Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN : 9781435310353
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In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self
Author: Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN : 9780691037660
In this wide-ranging work Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. These ima
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Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji
Author: Salles, Ricardo (EDT)Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199261307
Leading figures in ancient philosophy present nineteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on Aristotle''
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Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy, and Reform in Greek Penology
Author: Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198149606
This book assesses Plato''s penal code within the tradition of Greek penology. Saunders provides a detailed exposition of the emergence of the concept of publicly controlled, rationally calculated, and socially directed punishment in the period between Homer and Plato. He outlines the serious debate that ensued in the fifth century over the opposition by philosophers to popular judicial assumption
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Symposium and Phaedrus: Plato
Author: Plato/ Griffith, Tom (TRN)/ Rutherford, R. B. (INT)/ Griffith, TomPublisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN : 9780375411748
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato''s dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the deceptively unassuming Symposium introduces--in the guise o
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Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the Moderns
Author: Gerasimos SantasPublisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631228868
This volume explores Plato's and Aristotle's theories about good things, goodness, and the best life for human beings, and draws comparisons between ancient and modern theories of good and justice.Goodness and Justice argues that goodness was the most fundamental normative concept in the ethics of Plato and Aristotle, and illustrates how they used their functional and formal theories of good to bu
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In Defense of Sin
Author: John PortmannPublisher : Griffin / St. Martins Press
ISBN : 9781403961426
Intriguing, and occasionally unsettling, In Defense of Sin is a refreshingly frank exploration of some real facts of life. Portmann gathers an on-target collection of great writers on transgressions large and small. Read about defenses for promiscuity, greed, deceit, gossip, lust, breaking the golden rule, and more--and use this unusual guide to decide for yourself if sin has a place in our contem
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Plato's Parmenides
Author: Publisher : Yale
ISBN : 9780300077292
Among Plato''s later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII. In this book, R.E. Allen provides a superb tra
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Author: Balthasar GracianPublisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN : 9781570627453
This perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, these teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal concerns such as friendship, morality, managing emotions, and effective leadership. The Art of Worldl
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Author: Aristotle Publisher : Nuvision Publications
ISBN : 9781595479723
This book is a treatise on dialectical argument, a practice perhaps as old as human language, systemized for the first time by Aristotle. This seminal text offers many important insights into his conception of logic, his development of the notion of the predicables, and his ideas on the method of philosophical inquiry itself. Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for
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