Télécharger le livre :  The Garden of Leaders
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The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-12-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
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Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes that have fascinated readers for centuries. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the greatest good will toward his people, but as an exile he will...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-07-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Giving
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In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good that we care more about? On such issues, ethical theory can have momentous practical effects. This volume is a unique collection of new papers on philanthropy from a range of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-05-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Reverence
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Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe.Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ajax Dilemma
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We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out....

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-11-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ajax Dilemma
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We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out....

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2011-10-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Necessity of Theater
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What is unique and essential about theater?What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-04-30

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Télécharger le livre :  First Democracy
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Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives--does this automatically mean that you...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2006-03-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy
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This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates. Among the contributors are Thomas C. Brickhouse, Asli...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-11-16

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