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Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars ofWittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-05-14
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Emotions as ‘the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world’ constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional aspect was often regarded as a dispensable part of human nature, which...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Plato's dialogues were part of a body of fourth-century literature in which Socrates questioned (and usually got the better of) friends, associates, and supposed experts. A. G. Long considers how Plato explained the conversational character of Socratic philosophy, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-04-11
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The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle provides in-depth studies of the main themes of Aristotle's thought, from art to zoology. The most comprehensive single volume survey of the life and work of Aristotle Comprised of 40 newly commissioned essays from leading experts...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-05
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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What is mathematics about? And how can we have access to the reality it is supposed to describe? The book tells the story of this problem, first raised by Plato, through the views of Aristotle, Proclus, Kant, Frege, Gödel, Benacerraf, up to the most recent debate on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-21
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'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic...
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Penguin
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2012-12-06
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Aristotle is considered by many to be the founder of 'faculty psychology'--the attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to a few inborn capacities. In The Powers of Aristotle's Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen investigates his main work on...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-18
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Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues thatPlato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-20
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Platon gilt bis heute als ein Urvater der Bildungsphilosophie. Seine Überlegungen zu Begabung und Lernen, zu Charakter und Bildung, zum Bildungsziel der Gerechtigkeit und zum Erziehungsmittel der Liebe werden bis heute pädagogisch diskutiert. Seine eugenischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-17
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The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity, as has been shown by the recent interest and research in the emotions in Greek and Roman literature. Until now, however, there has been very little focus on love elegy or its relation to contemporary...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-08-01
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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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2012-07-19
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Band 9 der zweisprachigen Ausgabe der Sermones ad populum bietet die erstmalige deutsche Übersetzung der drei Predigten zur Apostelgeschichte 148-150. Die lateinischen Texte beruhen auf dem Vergleich der bisherigen Editionen, im Fall von sermo 150 auch auf Codex I 9 der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-18
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In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies...
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Penguin
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2012-07-05
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Le Clézio’s Spiritual Quest is the first English language book to address the development of this Nobel Prize winner’s spiritual ideas and the first book in any language to focus on his abiding interest in the philosophy of Parmenides, Sufism, and Meso-American...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-04
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Zu den beiden «Bösewichten» der antiken Philosophie, Kallikles und Thrasymachos, existiert überraschend wenig detailreiche Sekundärliteratur, obwohl das intellektuelle Interesse an ihren bei Platon überlieferten Anschauungen überaus groß ist – denn das Faustrecht...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-25
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The newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying public's imagination.The volumes of international bestsellers such as...
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Capstone
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2012-04-26
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Capstone Classics
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Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-05
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past....
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-05
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INTRODUCTION TO PRESOCRATICS “The general public and scholars alike will find Introduction to Presocratics stimulating, engaging and exceptionally useful. Stamatellos’ intriguing and illuminating theme-based approach to this subject and his inclusion of a fresh...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-03-02
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This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf--one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings. Gotthelf addresses three main topics across Aristotle's three main...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-23
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