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Plato and the Divided Self
Av Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1726 kr
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Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into …
Philo of Larissa
The Last of the Academic Sceptics
Inbunden, 2001
4277 kr
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This is the first book-length study of Philo of Larissa. Philo (159-84 BC) was the leader of the Platonic Academy in its final period as an Athenian institution, and also the principal philosophical teacher of Cicero. Dr Brittain charts Philo's gradual rejection of the radical scepticism of …
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Av Charles Brittain, James Warren
Inbunden, 2025
1563 kr
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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 defeat of Pompey's forces at Munda and return to Rome as dictator was causing him great fears …
Plato and the Divided Self
Av Rachel Barney, Tad Brennan m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
813 kr
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Plato's account of the tripartite soul is a memorable feature of dialogues like the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus: it is one of his most famous and influential yet least understood theories. It presents human nature as both essentially multiple and diverse - and yet somehow also one - divided into …
Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 1-26
Av Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan
E-bok, 2014
608 kr
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''[Simplicius''] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the will, to purify the heart, and to confirm the understanding, by a just confidence in the nature both of God and man.'' Edward Gibbon ''This book, …
Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53
Av Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
644 kr
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The Enchiridion or Handbook of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius chose it for beginners, rather than Aristotle's Ethics, because it presupposed no knowledge of logic. …
Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 1-26
Av Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
560 kr
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'[Simplicius'] moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the will, to purify the heart, and to confirm the understanding, by a just confidence in the nature both of God and man.'Edward Gibbon'This book, written by …
Soldier's Choice
City and Soul in the Life of Classical Athens
Av Hayden Pelliccia, Hayden Pelliccia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
660 kr
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In the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than leave undefended the democratic principles that Athens embodies: this defines The Soldier's Choice. The great war between Sparta and Athens dominated the Greek world for twenty-seven years …
Simplicius: On Epictetus Handbook 27-53
Av Charles Brittain, Tad Brennan
E-bok, 2014
684 kr
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The Enchiridion or Handbook of the first-century AD Stoic Epictetus was used as an ethical treatise both in Christian monasteries and by the sixth-century pagan Neoplatonist Simplicius. Simplicius chose it for beginners, rather than Aristotle''s Ethics , because it presupposed no knowledge of …
