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29 produkter
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Häftad, 2022
450 kr
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen …
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Inbunden, 2022
1432 kr
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen …
Against Absolute Goodness
E-bok, 2011
1082 kr
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Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply, good? If so, such things might be said to have "absolute goodness." They would be good simpliciter or full stop - not good for someone, not good of a kind, but nonetheless good (period). They might also be called "impersonal values." …
Quality of Life
Aristotle Revised
E-bok, 2018
277 kr
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls ''external goods'' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with …
Quality of Life
Aristotle Revised
E-bok, 2018
277 kr
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls ''external goods'' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with …
Politics: Books VII and VIII
Inbunden, 1997
2705 kr
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The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries which focus on philosophical problems and issues. This volume contains a clear and accurate translation of the last …
Politics: Books VII and VIII
Häftad, 1997
1155 kr
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The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries which focus on philosophical problems and issues. This volume contains a clear and accurate translation of the last …
Aristotle
Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2002
986 kr
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This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times. Beginning with a critique of subjectivist accounts of well-being, Kraut goes on to assess Aristotle's objective and universalistic account of …
The Quality of Life
Aristotle Revised
Inbunden, 2018
1013 kr
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with Aristotle's …
The Quality of Life
Aristotle Revised
Häftad, 2020
406 kr
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being. The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. Starting with Aristotle's …
Against Absolute Goodness
Inbunden, 2011
1555 kr
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Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply, good? If so, such things might be said to have "absolute goodness." They would be good simpliciter or full stop - not good for someone, not good of a kind, but nonetheless good (period). They might also be called "impersonal values." …
Against Absolute Goodness
E-bok, 2011
1082 kr
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Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply, good? If so, such things might be said to have "absolute goodness." They would be good simpliciter or full stop - not good for someone, not good of a kind, but nonetheless good (period). They might also be called "impersonal values." …
Cambridge Companion to Plato
E-bok, 1992
489 kr
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Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were …
Plato's Republic
Critical Essays
E-bok, 2000
608 kr
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Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato''s Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students'' understanding of this profoundly influential work. The comprehensive collection covers Plato''s social and political thought, …
What Is Good and Why
The Ethics of Well-Being
Häftad, 2009
395 kr
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What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish--that is, what is good for us. Observing that we can sensibly talk about what is …
Aristotle on the Human Good
Häftad, 1991
680 kr
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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible aggregate of intrinsic goods. Richard Kraut proposes instead that Aristotle identifies happiness with …
Socrates and the State
Häftad, 1987
931 kr
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This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death …
Aristotle on the Human Good
E-bok, 2021
927 kr
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Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics , which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this highest goal consists in the largest possible aggregate of intrinsic goods. Richard Kraut proposes instead that Aristotle identifies happiness …
Socrates and the State
E-bok, 2022
713 kr
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This fresh outlook on Socrates'' political philosophy in Plato''s early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito , Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates'' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death …
Aristotle's Politics
Critical Essays
Av Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety
Inbunden, 2005
1559 kr
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Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary …
Aristotle's Politics
Critical Essays
Av Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety
Häftad, 2005
557 kr
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Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary …
Plato's Republic
Critical Essays
Häftad, 1997
645 kr
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Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work. The comprehensive collection covers Plato's social and political thought, …
Cambridge Companion to Plato
E-bok, 1992
479 kr
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Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were …
Cambridge Companion to Plato
E-bok, 2022
463 kr
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen …
Cambridge Companion to Plato
E-bok, 2022
473 kr
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen …
Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Inbunden, 2005
1315 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics …
Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Av Kraut, Richard Kraut
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics …
Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
E-bok, 2008
1482 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle’s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. …
Blackwell Guide to Aristotle′s Nicomachean Ethics
2008
522 kr
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The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle's ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars. * The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics …
