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This exceptional book examines and explains Plato's answer to the normative question, "How ought we to live?" It discusses Plato's conception of the virtues; his views about the connection between the virtues and happiness; and the account of reason, desire, and...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-01-12
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This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theoria in the best life. Never...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-09-30
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This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theoria in the best life. Never...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-09-30
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Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-08-19
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The Peri ideon (On Ideas) is the only work in which Aristotle systematically sets out and criticizes arguments for the existence of Platonic forms. Gail Fine presents the first full-length treatment in English of this important but neglected work . She asks how, and how...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1993-04-29
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This is the ideal introduction to the thought of the third-century AD writer Plotinus, one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, now enjoying a major revival of interest. Dominic O'Meara has tailored the book carefully to the requirements of students: he writes...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1993-01-28
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Modern studies of classical utopian thought are usually restricted to the Republic and Laws of Plato, producing the impression that Greek speculation about ideal states was invariably authoritarian and hierarchical. This book, however, sets Plato in the context of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-07-09
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This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-04-02
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Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1992-03-26
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The Parmenides is notorious for the criticisms it directs against Plato's own Theory of Forms, as presented in the middle period. But the second and major portion of the dialogue has generally been avoided, despite its being offered as Plato's response to the problems;...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1991-02-07
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This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-11-15
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The Anatomy of Neoplatonism was the crowning achievement of A. C. Lloyd, the distinguished scholar of late ancient philosophy. He offers a rich and authoritative study of this school of thought, which was highly influential not only on subsequent philosophy but also on...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1990-03-22
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The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models.The theories produced by this revived interest in...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
1989-04-20
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There is a resurgence of interest in Aristotle's ethical theory, and this book contributes to the debate by asserting that, in Aristotle's view, excellence of character is constituted both by the sentiments and by practical reason. Throughout the arguments of the book,...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1989-04-13
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Aristotle's reliance on dialectic as a method of philosophy appears to conflict with his metaphysical realist view of his conclusions. This book exploresAristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, and shows how he defends dialectic against the...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
1989-01-12
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Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1986-04-24
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Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Religion explores an important religious side of ancient Aristotelianism, one which has an impact on contemporary philosophical debates. Louis F. Groarke shows how an exegetical perspective open to and respectful of Greek Pagan religion...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2025-12-02
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This ebook contains Plato's complete works.
This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on...
Editeur :
Pandora's Box
Parution :
2025-04-16
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CONTENTS:
- Part 1: Logic (Organon)
Categories, translated by E. M. Edghill
On Interpretation, translated by E. M. Edghill
Prior Analytics (2 Books), translated by A. J. Jenkinson
Posterior Analytics (2 Books), translated by G. R. G. Mure
Topics (8 Books), translated...
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ATN Classics
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2021-02-22
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Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his...
Editeur :
Big Cheese
Parution :
2019-07-01
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