Ancient Philosophy – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Ronja Hildebrandt
Aristotle's Defence of Philosophy in the Protrepticus

Why should we study philosophy? Is it too abstract or too remote from real life to be of any value? Aristotle's Defence of Philosophy in the Protrepticus examines Aristotle's response to such questions. B…

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Jeremy Kirby
Aristotle's Biosphere

Aristotle displays a keen interest in life and living beings, but he doesn't separate the biological from the artificial, and he describes organisms as skillfully constructed phenomena that extend beyond …

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Candice Delmas
Civil and Uncivil Disobedience

What is wrong with disobedience? What makes an act of disobedience civil or uncivil? Under what conditions can an act of civil or uncivil disobedience be justified? Can a liberal democratic regime tolerat…

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Thornton Lockwood
Aristotle on Justice

Aristotle's account of justice has inspired thinkers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas and Martha Nussbaum. Concepts such as distributive justice, equity, the common good, and the distinction between just and …

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Bryan C. Reece
Aristotelian Ontological Priority and Metaphysical Grounding

Many think that reality is structured such that some beings are more fundamental than others and characterize this structure in terms of 'grounding.' Grounding is typically regarded as explanatory and as …

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Candice Delmas
Civil and Uncivil Disobedience

What is wrong with disobedience? What makes an act of disobedience civil or uncivil? Under what conditions can an act of civil or uncivil disobedience be justified? Can a liberal democratic regime tolerat…

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Justin Pack
Prehistoric Philosophy

Prehistoric Philosophy challenges the narrative of progress and other civilizational myths by looking at their origins in the neolithic revolution. Once we reject the simplistic and often racist stereotyp…

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Two Philosophers

"If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders," Ayn Rand wrote, "it is Aristotle. He has been opposed, misinterpreted, misrepresented, an…

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Lloyd P Gerson
The Platonism of Proclus

This book argues that the key to understanding the philosophical connections between Plato and Proclus is found in Proclus' extant commentaries on the dialogues. Although none are complete, they comprise …

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Christine Vitrano
The Pursuit of Success

Despite its centrality to so many of our life choices, the question of what it means to live a successful life has been a neglected topic within philosophy.The Pursuit of Success: A Philosophical Examinat…

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Aist¿ ¿Elkyt¿
Galen on Human Physiology

"Galen of Pergamum, 'the prince of medicine', plays a significant role in the history of medicine, philosophy, and cultural history. This book presents a study of his physiology, looking both at Gale…

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Carl Séan O'Brien
Plato's Unwritten Doctrines

This Element examines the arguments advanced by the Tübingen-Milan School in support of the claim that Plato had Unwritten Doctrines (agrapha dogmata), revealed in Aristotle and other testimonia and indic…

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Dominic J. O'Meara
The Ladder of the Sciences in Late Antique Platonism

A range of sciences was taught in the Platonist schools of late antiquity (third to sixth centuries) with the purpose of leading the human soul up to a divine life. This curriculum constituted so to speak…

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Lee C. Barrett
Kierkegaard's Two Ages

This Element explores Kierkegaard's Two Ages, his literary review of a contemporary novella, situating it in the context of his other writings from the same period of his life and his cultural/political c…

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Shadi Bartsch
Plato Goes to China

The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's…

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Ronna Burger
The Phaedo

Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of "the twin pillars of Platonism" - the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Tracing the movement of the argument through t…

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Lloyd P Gerson
The Platonism of Proclus

This book argues that the key to understanding the philosophical connections between Plato and Proclus is found in Proclus' extant commentaries on the dialogues. Although none are complete, they comprise …

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André Laks
Plato's Second Republic

An argument for why Plato's Laws can be considered his most important political dialogueIn Plato's Second Republic, André Laks argues that the Laws, Plato's last and longest dialogue, is also his most imp…

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Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

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James Bernard Murphy
Deification in Classical Greek Philosophy and the Bible

The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how …

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