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The coursebook presents Plato and Aristotle as the two most significant and groundbreaking thinkers of European thought from the era of classical Greek philosophy.The author provides prefatory orientation in the labyrinth of their complex thought and sketches their...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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The book deals with martyrdom understood as a philosophical category.The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death.The author approaches an answer through a philosophical interpretation of the belief in the evidential role of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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'All teaching and all intellectual learning come to be from pre-existing knowledge.' So begins Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. David Bronstein sheds new light on this challenging text...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-25
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Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-12-17
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Zivilisierte Gesellschaften haben stets auch den Verdacht genährt, dass die lichten Segnungen kulturellen Fortschritts eine düstere Kehrseite haben, die dem menschlichen Wohlbefinden mehr schadet als nützt. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Stimmen von Weisen aller Zeiten,...
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Springer VS
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2015-11-05
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Mit diesem Werk wird zum ersten Mal der Willensbegriff gegründet, indem der intellektuelle Wille im Unterschied und in Erweiterung von einem rein vorstellenden rationalen Willen deutlich erfasst wird. Es wird im Verhältnis zu den anderen Strebevermögen gezeigt, dass der...
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Springer VS
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2015-10-14
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How should I live?How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the object of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-08
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When the Romans adopted Greek literary genres and artistic techniques, they did not slavishly imitate their models but created vibrant and original works of literature and art in their own right. The same is true for philosophy, notwithstanding the fact that the rich...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-01
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Susan Sauvé Meyer presents a new translation of Plato's Laws, 1 and 2. In these opening books of Plato's last work, a Cretan, a Spartan, and an Athenian discuss legislative theory, moral psychology, and the criteria for evaluating art. The interlocutors compare the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-24
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Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-28
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Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-27
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Tun und Können erläutert und diskutiert den Gründungstext der Modalontologie: das neunte Buch der Metaphysik des Aristoteles. Aristoteles’ Thesen und Argumente werden zum ersten Mal in Gänze mit formalen analytischen Mitteln rekonstruiert und auf ihre Kohärenz und...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-16
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The Seventh Platonic Letter describes Plato's attempts to turn the ruler of Sicily, Dionysius II, into a philosopher ruler along the lines of the Republic. It explains why Plato turned from politics to philosophy in his youth and how he then tried to apply his ideas to...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-11
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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.
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-04
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The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape.The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape.The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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Plato's Parmenides Reconsidered offers a very accessible, detailed, and historically-sensitive account ofPlato's Parmenides. Against the prevailing scholarly wisdom, he illustrates conclusively that Parmenides is a satirical dialogue in which Plato attempts to expose...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-13
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M.M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the ways in which the Platonic method of conversation may inform how we understand both the Platonic dialogues and the work of his predecessors and his successors. The centrality of conversation to...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-07
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This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks...
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Springer
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2015-04-25
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For Aristotle, arousing the passions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction. On that basis a skill in doing so can be something valuable, an appropriate constituent of the kind of expertise in rhetoric that deserves to be cultivated and given...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-09
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