Ancient Philosophy – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 8

Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Pablo Of Texcoco,
How to Be Grateful

A delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks---to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestorsCenturies before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude journal…

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James O Young, Michel-Antoine Xhignesse
Anne Le Févre Dacier: Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste

Anne Le Fèvre Dacier (1645-1720) was the most important woman of letters of her time and Of the Causes of the Corruption of Taste is her most influential work. Dacier in several ways she anticipated and l…

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Ioannis Trisokkas
Hegel and Heidegger on Time

This Element discusses Heidegger's early (1924-1931) reading and critique of Hegel, revolving around the topic of time. The standard view is Heidegger distances himself from Hegel by arguing that whereas …

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Ward Farnsworth
Estoico Practicante, El

See more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease―here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth syste…

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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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Seneca,
How to Live

A vivid new translation in which the Stoic philosopher argues that virtue is the only path to contentmentWhy are so many people unhappy when happiness can be attained by anyone who simply lives virtuously…

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Dominic Scott
Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Republic,…

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Platonic Autonomy

Analyses Plato's notion of personal autonomy in its philosophical and historical context. Questions an exclusively individualistic account and argues that the autonomous subject is a unified agent who in …

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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's d…

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Gregory R Beabout, Mike Hannis
Ethics

What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Is there really an ancient art that develops good character? In this compact …

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Dominic Scott
Contemplation and Society in Plato and Aristotle

This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Republic,…

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Truth in the Late Foucault

"The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examinatio…

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The Necessities Underlying Reality

Introduces Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics through the work of leading Australian mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin.

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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George Boys-Stones
Apuleius on the Cosmos

Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristot…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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Iakovos Vasiliou
Varieties of Happiness

Almost all ancient Greek ethical theories are taken to be eudaimonist because of the central role of eudaimonia (happiness) within them. Varieties of Happiness critically examines eudaimonism and challeng…

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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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John Ma
Polis

A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis , or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles …

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