Plato, Time, and Education

Essays in Honor of Robert S. Brumbaugh

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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Beskrivning

This collection of original essays pays tribute to the man by exploring topics that have interested him through a long and productive career. Plato's mathematical imagery, his theory of perception, the role of engineering techne in the origin of Greek science, time and free will in Kant, Whitehead as teacher of teachers, mapping friendships, Kierkegaard and the necessity of forgery. These and other topics are given fresh treatments meant to stimulate further philosophical thinking in the spirit of Brumbaugh himself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1988-01-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780887067341

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Brian P. Hendley is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Part I: Plato 1. Socratic PietyW. Thomas Schmid 2. Meno 86C-89A: A Mathematical Image of Philosophic InquiryKenneth Seeskin 3. Plato on Doubling the Cube: Politicus 266 ABMalcolm Brown 4. The Theory of Perception in Plato's TheaetetusRobert Anderson 5. Knowledge, Speculation, and Myth in Plato's Accounts of the Order and the Distances of Celestial BodiesAlexander P.D. Mourelatos 6. What did Thales want to be when he grewup? or, Re-appraising the roles of engineering and technology on the origin of early greek philosophy/scienceRobert Hahn 7. Tonal Isomorphism in Plato and the I Ching: Brumbaugh as cultural anthropologistErnest G. McClain Part II: Time8. Time, History, and EschatologyGeorge Allan 9. Time, Free Will, and Brumbaugh in Kantian EpistemologyManley Thompson 10. Saint Augustine and Cicero's DilemmaBrian Hendley Part III: Education 11. Education as a Theme of PhilosophyNathan Rotenstreich 12. Philosophy by Centuries: A Direction in TeachingGeorge Kimball Plochmann 13. Whitehead: Teacher of TeachersNathaniel Lawrence Part IV: History of Philosophy 14. Mapping FriendshipPhilip Bashor 15. Albertus Magnus as Commentator on Aristotle's PhysicsHelen S. Lang 16. Descartes in Meditation and MethodBerel Lang 17. Kierkegaard and the Necessity of ForgeryJosiah Thompson Part V: Bibliography of the Writings of Robert S. Brumbaugh