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At opposite ends of over two millenia Hegel and Aristotle, virtually alone of the great European thinkers, consciously attempted to criticize and develop the thought of their predecessors into syste……続きを見る

Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it ……続きを見る

This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate h……続きを見る

From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history o……続きを見る

Epicureanism after the generation of its founders has been characterised as dogmatic, uncreative and static. But this volume brings together work from leading classicists and philosophers that demon……続きを見る

Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. With the help of this book you will be able to make sense of how so many of the world's peaceful and beauti……続きを見る

Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a s……続きを見る

In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking about law, society, and empire. Drawing on in……続きを見る

As appropriate emblems of various human and divine attributes birds were included in religious and philosophic symbolism that of pagans and of Christians alike. Cruelty was signified by the buzzard……続きを見る

“No man was ever wise by chance.” ー Seneca Seneca's Dialoguesーas his epistolary essays have traditionally been knownー capture the full range of the Roman thinker’s philosophical interests, in par……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Cette question appartient à la doctrine des mœurs (ἦθος pour les Grecs) ; ce nom de doctrine des mœurs est celui que nous donnons d’ordinaire à cette partie de la philosophie ; mais, pour e……続きを見る

For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now,……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: CHAPITRE PREMIER Préambule. Cicéron se propose de traiter en latin les sujets déjà traités par les philosophes grecs. Réponse à diverses objections contre la philosophie. Je n’ignorais pas,……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: INTRODUCTION. L’an de Rome 709, vers le milieu d’avril, un mois après la mort de César, Cicéron écrivait à Atticus (Epist. ad Attic., XIV, 4) : « Que pourrais-je vous mander à présent de La……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Bien qu'après avoir, pendant un an, suivi l'enseignement donné par Cratippe, tu doives, mon cher fils Marcus, sous un maître d'une si grande autorité et dans une ville très riche en exemple……続きを見る

The Arabic philosophical fable Hayy Ibn Yaqzan is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), the Andalusian philosopher, tells of a child raised by a doe on an equatorial island……続きを見る

How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophy Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and ……続きを見る

The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilisation. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this Greek culture – m……続きを見る

This book consolidates emerging research on Aristotle's science and ethics in order to explore the extent to which the concepts, methods, and practices he developed for scientific inquiry and explan……続きを見る

Exemples que j’ai reçus de mon grand-père Vérus : la bonté et la douceur, qui ne connaît point la colère. Du père qui m’a donné la vie : la mod……続きを見る

Epictetus presents difficulties for the historiall of ideas. He published nothing, while his so-called writings are mostly notes of so me of his discussions taken down haphazardly by a friend. Moreo……続きを見る

Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classic……続きを見る

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state and the just manーfor this reas……続きを見る

Aristotle argued that in theory one could acquire knowledge of the natural world. But he did not stop there; he put his theories into practice. This volume of new essays shows how Aristotle's natura……続きを見る

The idea that socialism could be established in a single country was adopted as an official doctrine by the Soviet Union in 1925, Stalin and Bukharin being the main formulators of the policy. Before……続きを見る

This Book is the Eversion of my paperback book The Cave Of Wisdom. The paperback book has 725 pages, so I have decided to make this Eversion in three parts for easy reading. This book is the Third v……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "Plato: The Complete Works" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classic……続きを見る

We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to su……続きを見る

'. . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised……続きを見る

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