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Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-26
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Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-26
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Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were undertaken, notably in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores three interrelated issues concerning those investigations. This first issue is...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-30
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Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were undertaken, notably in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores three interrelated issues concerning those investigations. This first issue is...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-29
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Gail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy. Meno's Paradox, which is first formulated in Plato's Meno, challenges the very possibility of inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-03-27
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In this volume, Cotton examines Plato's ideas about education and learning. With a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in developing philosophical understanding, the book argues that a reader's experience can be parallel in kind and value to...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-02-27
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Michael T. Ferejohn presents an original interpretation of key themes in Aristotle's classic works, and their roots in Socratic thought. The principal historical thesis of this work is that Aristotle's commendation of the historical Socrates for 'being the first to...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-11-28
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Als im Jahre 1807 die Phänomenologie des Geistes von Hegel erschien, war sie allen Lesern ein schwerverständliches Werk, das sie vor oftmals unlösbare Rätsel stellte. Dem Autor ist es nun durch Übersetzung des Hegelschen Textes aus dem Abstrakten in das Konkrete...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-19
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This collection of essays is about some of the most fundamental issues connected with metaphysics, theory of values and philosophy of man. In the first part of the book, the author is trying to answer questions concerning both the methodological status of metaphysics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Peace and Peacemaking in Paul and the Greco-Roman World compares the Apostle Paul’s understanding of peace with various conceptions of peace in the Greco-Roman thought world of the first century. In contrast to similar studies that focus on the question of pacifism in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-05
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Ancient Greek philosophers generally accept the claim that e?da?µ???a is within our power to achieve, regardless of circumstance. Conversely, external goods – physical health, education, social standing – are frequently present or absent due to circumstances beyond our...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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Christopher Gill provides a new translation and commentary on the first half of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a full introduction to the Meditations as a whole. The Meditations constitute a unique and remarkable work, a reflective diary or notebook by a Roman...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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Frei oder unfrei? Nach Ansicht der frühen griechischen Stoiker war die Welt rein materialistisch strukturiert, in der alles nach einem physikalischen Determinismus geschehe. In diesem Sinne stellt die vorliegende Studie Fragen, die sowohl für die antiken Philosophen als...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-10-01
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Why were the stars so important in Rome? Their literary presence far outweighs their role as a time-reckoning device, which was, in any case, superseded by the synchronization of the civil and solar years under Julius Caesar. One answer is tied to their usefulness in...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-09-10
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Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but scholars since the nineteenth century have been more skeptical. With this probing study, Phillip Sidney Horky argues that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical"...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-23
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Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominentAristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-12
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Frank A. Lewis presents a closely argued exposition of Metaphysics Zeta--one of Aristotle's most dense and controversial texts. It is commonly understood to contain Aristotle's deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and surrounding metaphysical issues. But...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-27
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Zina Giannopoulou argues that Theaetetus--Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge--is a philosophically sophisticated elaboration of Apology that successfully differentiates Socrates from the sophists. In Apology Socrates defends his philosophical activity...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-27
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In Science before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato. Instead, Graham...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-10
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Die vorliegende Arbeit besteht aus drei Studien. In der ersten Studie unternimmt der Autor den Versuch einer hypothetischen Auslegung, wie Aristoteles die zweiten Substanzen und die Universalien interpretiert haben könnte. Im Fokus wird dabei von Seiten des Autors der...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-29
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