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Phaedo
Häftad, 1998
206 kr
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This is an English translation of one of Plato’s great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending execution. Included is an introduction and glossary of key terms. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the …
Logos of Herclitus
Av Eva Brann
Häftad, 2011
211 kr
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In his Vatican fresco The School of Athens, Raphael portrays the great thinkers and teachers of the ages talking and listening to one another. His Heraclitus, however, is a lone thinker staring downward and inward, seated apart from the other philosophers. According to Eva Brann, Heraclitus looks …
Ways of Naysaying
No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing
Av Eva Brann
Inbunden, 2001
930 kr
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No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an …
Homeric Moments
Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey & the Iliad
Av Eva Brann
Häftad, 2012
436 kr
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Whether readers are tackling the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time or are already well acquainted with the works of Homer, they will uncover the connections and layers of meaning that have made the epics 'the marvel of the ages' in this scholarly and encouraging resource. The inexhaustible …
Open Secrets/Inward Prospects
Reflections on World & Soul
Av Eva Brann
Inbunden, 2004
312 kr
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This collection of aphorisms and thoughts gathers 30 years of observations about the external world and on the nature of our internal selves. Compiled from scraps of paper dating from the early 1970s, these bits of wisdom include notes about the world around us that are often thought, but not often …
Homage to Americans
Mile-High Meditations, Close Readings, & Time-Spanning Speculations
Av Eva Brann
Häftad, 2010
248 kr
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In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Eva Brann explores the roots and essence of American ways. In "Mile-High Meditations", her flight's late departure from the Denver airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (ie: "being"). As she looks around, she notes (and compares to …
Un-Willing
An Inquiry into the Rise of Will's Power & an Attempt to Undo It
Av Eva Brann
Häftad, 2014
429 kr
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Since ancient times, philosophers have written about "the will". But the will is more than a philosophic and scholarly topic. In our everyday speech, what do we mean when we speak of the "will"? Will-words turn up everywhere in the English language. We make wills. We exert our willpower. We are …
How to Constitute a World
Av Eva Brann
Häftad, 2017
253 kr
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Eva Brann, who has been teaching at St. Johns College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words: The first essay looks at the Pre-Socratics Heraclitus and …
Iron Filings or Scribblings
Thinking Things Out
Av Eva Brann
Häftad, 2019
282 kr
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"As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so these essays display Eva Branns form of oppositional, or polar, thinking. To introduce her book, Eva Brann calls up the image of Iron Filings as they "settle themselves along the lines of force that form a field of influence around a bar …
La música de la República
Ensayos sobre las conversaciones de Sócrates y los escritos de Platón
Av Eva Brann
E-bok, 2016
119 kr
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En palabras de su autora: ¿Quién ha pasado toda una vida leyendo los escritos de Platón y no considera la República su obra central? Es inagotable, la conversación más larga de Sócrates. En consecuencia, en medio de esta colección hay cuatro piezas sobre la República. Sin embargo, el diálogo que …
