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13 produkter
Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame
Häftad, 2014
654 kr
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Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame recounts the fascinating history of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, chronicling the challenges, difficulties, and tensions that accompanied its transition from an obscure outpost of scholasticism in the 1940s into one of the more …
Plato's Literary Garden
How to Read a Platonic Dialogue
Inbunden, 1995
1901 kr
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This work argues that Plato did not intend his written dialogues to serve as repositories of philosophical doctrine, but instead composed them as teaching instruments. The study is organised according to the progression of a horticultural metaphor adopted from the "Phaedrus".
Plato's Literary Garden
How to Read a Platonic Dialogue
Häftad, 2002
617 kr
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This work is designed for students who are undertaking the serious study of Plato for the first time. It aims to provide a method for engaging with the dialogues as actively as the actual participants are engaged, and discusses the significance of the dramatic and literary form of the dialogues.
Unearthed
The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis
Häftad, 2010
574 kr
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Argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy (degraded energy and organisation) produced by that consumption no longer exceeds the biosphere's ability to dispose of it.
Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame
Inbunden, 2022
2404 kr
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Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame recounts the fascinating history of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, chronicling the challenges, difficulties, and tensions that accompanied its transition from an obscure outpost of scholasticism in the 1940s into one of the more …
Unearthed
The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis
Inbunden, 2022
2265 kr
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In Unearthed: The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis, Kenneth M. Sayre argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy (degraded energy and organization) produced by that consumption no longer exceeds the …
Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman
Häftad, 2011
716 kr
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At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In heated arguments, they have debated the significance of these claims, some arguing that they constituted …
Metaphysics and Method in Plato's Statesman
Inbunden, 2006
993 kr
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At the beginning of his Metaphysics, Aristotle attributed several strange-sounding theses to Plato. Generations of Plato scholars have assumed that these could not be found in the dialogues. In heated arguments, they have debated the significance of these claims, some arguing that they constituted …
Belief and Knowledge
Mapping the Cognitive Landscape
Häftad, 1997
717 kr
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Contesting much contemporary epistemology and cognitive science, noted philosopher Kenneth M. Sayre argues that, while some cognitive attitudes such as believing take propositions as objects, there are many others (knowing, hoping, fearing, etc.) whose objects are instead states of affairs. …
Truth, Faith, and Reason
Scripture, Tradition, and John Paul II
E-bok, 2022
433 kr
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John Paul II''s Faith and Reason was written against a background of Catholic scholarship focusing notably on the New Testament, St. Augustine''s Confessions, St. Thomas''s De Veritate, and the encyclicals of various pre-Vatican II popes. A detailed, textually based critique of these early sources …
Plato's Late Ontology
A Riddle Resolved
Häftad, 2005
414 kr
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Prior to the publication of Plato’s Late Ontology in 1983, there was general agreement among Plato scholars that the theses attributed to Plato in Book A of Aristotle’s Metaphysics can not be found in the dialogues. Plato’s Late Ontology presented a textually based argument that in fact these …
