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Mortal Imitations of Divine Life
The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle's ""De Anima""
Av Eli Diamond
Inbunden, 2015
1143 kr
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In Mortal Imitations of Divine Life, Diamond offers an interpretation of De Anima, which explains how and why Aristotle places souls in a hierarchy of value. Aristotle’s central intention in De Anima is to discover the nature and essence of soul—the principle of living beings. He does so by …
Pedagogy of Wisdom
An Interpretation of Plato's ""Theaetetus
Av Gregory Kirk
Inbunden, 2015
1143 kr
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In this interpretive commentary on Theaetetus, Gregory Kirk makes a major contribution to scholarship on Plato by emphasizing the relevance of the interpersonal dynamics between the interlocutors for the interpretation of the dialogue’s central arguments about knowledge. Kirk attends closely to …
Pedagogy of Wisdom
An Interpretation of Plato's ""Theaetetus
Av Gregory Kirk
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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In this interpretive commentary on Theaetetus, Gregory Kirk makes a major contribution to scholarship on Plato by emphasizing the relevance of the interpersonal dynamics between the interlocutors for the interpretation of the dialogue’s central arguments about knowledge. Kirk attends closely to …
Middle Included
Logos in Aristotle
Av Ömer Aygün
Inbunden, 2016
1143 kr
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The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle’s work. It claims that the basic meaning is “gathering,” in the sense of a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This basic meaning applies to logos …
Companion to Ancient Philosophy
Av Sean D Kirkland, Eric Sanday
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and …
Companion to Ancient Philosophy
Av Sean D Kirkland, Eric Sanday
Inbunden, 2018
1371 kr
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A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and …
Philosophy As Agôn
A Study of Plato’s Gorgias and Related Texts
Häftad, 2018
365 kr
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In Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic …
Philosophy As Agôn
A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts
Inbunden, 2018
1143 kr
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In Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic …
Aristotle's Ontology of Change
Av Mark Sentesy
Häftad, 2020
390 kr
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This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He …
Aristotle's Ontology of Change
Av Mark Sentesy
Inbunden, 2020
1143 kr
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This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He …
Plato and Aristophanes
Comedy, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Just Life
Häftad, 2021
387 kr
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In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new …
Plato and Tradition
The Poetic and Cultural Context of Philosophy
Häftad, 2013
331 kr
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Plato’s dialogues are some of the most widely read texts in Western philosophy, and one would imagine them fully mined for elemental material. Yet, in Plato and Tradition, Patricia Fagan reveals the dialogues to be continuing sources of fresh insight. She recovers from them an under appreciated …
Essential Vulnerabilities
Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other
Inbunden, 2014
1133 kr
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In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas’s idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though …
Study of Dialectic in Plato's Parmenides
Inbunden, 2016
908 kr
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In this book, Eric Sanday boldly demonstrates that Plato’s “theory of forms” is true, easy to understand, and relatively intuitive. Sanday argues that our chief obstacle tounderstanding the theory of forms is the distorting effect of the tacit metaphysical privileging of individual things in our …
Mortal Imitations of Divine Life
The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle's ""De Anima""
Av Eli Diamond
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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In Mortal Imitations of Divine Life, Diamond offers an interpretation of De Anima, which explains how and why Aristotle places souls in a hierarchy of value. Aristotle’s central intention in De Anima is to discover the nature and essence of soul—the principle of living beings. He does so by …
Middle Included
Logos in Aristotle
Av Ömer Aygün
Häftad, 2016
387 kr
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The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle’s work. It claims that the basic meaning is “gathering,” in the sense of a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This basic meaning applies to logos …
Plato and Aristophanes
Comedy, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Just Life
Inbunden, 2021
1133 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new …
