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Hugh H. Benson explores Plato's answer to Clitophon's challenge, the question of how one can acquire the knowledge Socrates argues is essential to human flourishing-knowledge we all seem to lack. Plato suggests two methods by which this knowledge may be gained: the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-01
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Bette Davis said ‘Old age ain’t no place for sissies’. If that’s true, we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years. Translator Tom Payne turns to Ovid, Seneca, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aristophanes to discover invigorating counsel on...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-03-05
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Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects seventy-six works - from Plato, Descartes and Wittgenstein to Philip K Dick and the Moomins as well as contemporary...
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Robinson
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2015-03-05
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Brief Histories
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In Levels of Argument, Dominic Scott compares the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics from a methodological perspective.In the first half he argues that the Republic distinguishes between two levels of argument in the defence of justice, the 'longer' and 'shorter' routes....
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-05
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This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting")....
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-04
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This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's Categories. After centuries of neglect, the Categories became the focus of philosophical discussion in the first century BCE, and was subsequently adopted as the basic introductory...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-26
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Plotinus’ mysticism of henosis, unification with the One, is a highly controversial topic in Plotinian scholarship. This book presents a careful reading of the Enneads and suggests thatPlotinus’ mysticism be understood as mystical teaching that offers practical guidance...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he argues that a...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he argues that a...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the centuries to a wide audience, persons as diverse as Beethoven and Benjamin Franklin,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-18
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The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-11-21
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
'The...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-13
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Michael V. Wedin presents a new interpretation of Parmenides' Way of Truth: the most important philosophical treatise before the work of Plato and Aristotle. The Way of Truth contains the first extended philosophical argument in the western tradition--an argument which...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-16
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Die Autorin bietet in ihren einführenden philosophischen Reflexionen eine Auswahl an klassischen und modernen Themen der Ästhetik: Dialektik der Aufklärung, Kunst nahe am Verstummen, Begriffsgeschichte des Schönen und andere. In zehn Kapiteln werden Zitate durch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-09
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Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-Oedipus the King and Antigone-for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-09-08
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Crofts Classics
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Raymond Larson's excellent translation of the dialogues that deal, respectively, with the nature of eros and the immortality of the soul are supplemented by careful annotation, a fine introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Plato, and a selected...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-09-08
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Crofts Classics
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Die Lehre Platons ist mit der schriftlich festgehaltenen Ideentheorie nicht völlig gleichzusetzen. Im Buch wendet sich der Autor nach der historisch-genetischen Methode den Testimonia Platonica der innerakademischen Prinzipienlehre zu. Er versucht, die fundamentale...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-08
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This highly regarded volume features a modern translation of all ten books of The Republic along with a synoptic table of contents, a prefatory essay, and an appendix on The Spindle of Necessity by the translator and editor, Raymond Larson. Also included are an...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-08-26
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Crofts Classics
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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-28
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Augustine's Confessions is a masterpiece of world literature. Written by Augustine in his forties, at the height of his philosophical and rhetorical skills, the Confessions is at once autobiographical, philosophical, theological, and psychological. The aim of the eight...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-03
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