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Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal val……続きを見る

Plato has often been read as denigrating the cognitive and ethical value of poetry. In his dialogues, the faculty that corresponds to the poeticーthe imaginationーis located at the lowest level of h……続きを見る

Plato's Republic is typically thought to recommend a form of government that, from our current perspective, seems perniciously totalitarian. Athens Victorious demonstrates that Plato intended quite ……続きを見る

Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond,Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites indivi……続きを見る

In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers. It is for this reason that Plato devoted his dialogues Theatetus and……続きを見る

Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. Starting with Sartre’s insights about radical existentia……続きを見る

Of all writers of philosophy, there is probably no one who has attained such a lofty position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes were to oratory, and what Shakespea……続きを見る

The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliogra……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Philosophische und Rhetorische Schriften" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Cicero (106 ……続きを見る

Meditations (Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself") is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 CE, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philo……続きを見る

William Shakespeare gilt als der berühmteste und auch produktivste Schriftsteller aller Zeiten. Die Welt des Theaters und der Literatur wäre ohne seine mitreißenden Dramen zweifellos ärmer, die Bühn……続きを見る

Franz Kafka läßt sich nicht in eine bestimmte literarische Richtung einordnen, war aber ohne Zweifel einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Schriftsteller. Seine unvergleichliche Art, die Lebensä……続きを見る

The Categories is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavil……続きを見る

La philosophie n’est pas une matière abstraite et rébarbative ! C’est un art de penser au service d’un art de vivre. Conçu par un esprit libre, qui pense librement. Au delà du conditionnement du pas……続きを見る

The following pages are intended to serve as a general introduction to Greek literature and thought, for those, primarily, who do not know Greek. 続きを見る

Xenophon ( c. 430 – 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates. 続きを見る

Epictetus (AD c. 55 – 135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his banishment, when he went to……続きを見る

Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern……続きを見る

The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates is a collection of Socratic dialogues by Xenophon, a student of Socrates. It is essentially an apologia (defense) of Socrates, differing from both Xenophon's Apolo……続きを見る

In his Metaphysics, Aristotle claims that he is seeking to establish a science of being. Being, at the most general level, is divided by Aristotle into the following four types: 1. Accidental being ……続きを見る

Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on……続きを見る

Long before science as we know it today existed, sophisticated studies of the external world were undertaken, notably in Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece. G. E. R. Lloyd explores three interrel……続きを見る

St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and ……続きを見る

Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul challenges the traditional reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual, mainly cognitive and metaphorical, ways of understanding central Pau……続きを見る

Decaying values. Sexually transmitted diseases. Fatherless homes. Rampant drug use. These aren't just problems for today's inner cities. It's the plight of all America. Much has been said about Bill……続きを見る

Laozi (also Lao-Tzu or Lao-tze) was a philosopher and poet of ancient China. He is best known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, but he is also revere……続きを見る

Plato (c.428-347 BCE) stands at the beginning of many debates that have continued throughout the history of philosophy. His literary career spanned fifty years and the influence of his ideas and tho……続きを見る

The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It saw the development of a wide range ……続きを見る

In the Gorgias, Socrates claims to practice the true art of politics, but the peculiar politics he practices involves cultivating in each individual he encounters an erotic desire to live a life ani……続きを見る

Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is begin……続きを見る