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Partez à la découverte de la sophistique avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La sophistique est d'abord ce mouvement de pensée qui, à l'aube présocratique de la philosophie, séduisit et scandalisa l……続きを見る

Let’s go visit the ancient people and see the world as they see it. This educational book will tackle history by bringing it to the consciousness of the young. There is the use of pictures and texts……続きを見る

Make ancient history kid-friendly by carefully crafting the texts and then adding relevant images. That’s what we did! Allow this book to capture your child’s imagination and pull him/her back to th……続きを見る

Did you know that there’s so much you can learn from the early civilizations that are applicable today? You get to learn about useful systems, and concepts that you can apply in your everyday life. ……続きを見る

... So we have returned to that which seems to me most important in the relations of paganism and of early Christianity. In many ways paganism provided an environment favorable for the spread of the……続きを見る

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist. In this book, scholars from around th……続きを見る

Trace the life in the Fertile Crescent with this past to present history reference book. This book contains data from the cultural beginnings to the rise of civilization. Ideal for students and hist……続きを見る

In this educational book, we're going to go over the Roman and Greek gods of Jupiter and Mars. Learning about myths will help you to better understand the cultures, traditions and belief of peoples ……続きを見る

Plato was the first philosopher in the western tradition to reflect systematically (and often critically) on rhetoric. In this book, Tushar Irani presents a comprehensive and innovative reading of t……続きを見る

There are thirty-six appearances of the Greek word exaíphnes in Plato’s dialogues. Usually translated as “all of a sudden” or “suddenly,” exaíphnes emerges in several significant passages. For examp……続きを見る

Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Cr……続きを見る

This book presents a substantially revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new ……続きを見る

Extrait : 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 modestie et la virilité, du moins si je m’en rap……続きを見る

This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical probl……続きを見る

Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's res……続きを見る

Traditionally, the mountains are from whence wisdom is found and dispensed, the homes of the gods, places we look up to for aspiration and inspiration. Yet there is another direction emanating insig……続きを見る

Originally published in 1973. The predominantly historical approach in this book heralds a belief that a better understanding of Aristotle the man, and the salient events of his life, leads to a gre……続きを見る

Die Philosophie der Antike umfasst einen Zeitraum von ungefähr 1100 Jahren. Sie bildet eine der bewegtesten und der reichsten Perioden der Philosophiegeschichte überhaupt. Vor den Griechen existiert……続きを見る

Extrait :  Kant est le père de la philosophie allemande : il est l’auteur ou plutôt l’instrument de la plus grande révolution philosophique qui ait eu lieu dans l’Europe moderne depuis Descarte……続きを見る

Dans la première de ses lettres sur la crise de l’esprit, Paul Valéry constate : « L’espoir n’est que la méfiance de l’être à l’égard des prévisions de son esprit. » Or cette méfiance n’est pas un f……続きを見る

Although St Thomas Aquinas famously claimed that his Summa Theologiae was written for 'beginners', contemporary readers find it unusually difficult. Now, amid a surge of interest in virtue ethics, J……続きを見る

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fic……続きを見る

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The "Arrow Paradox" and the "Stadium Paradox" are solved in this essay. 続きを見る

With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordina……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: INTRODUCTION Ce dialogue fut composé peu de temps après celui de la Vieillesse, que l’auteur cite même dans le préambule, où il établit une espèce de parallèle entre les deux ouvrages. Ici,……続きを見る

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first pu……続きを見る

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and a……続きを見る

Xenophon of Athens (circa 430 354 B.C.) was a Greek poet, historian, soldier and philosopher who lived at a time of momentous events in Ancient Greek history. Although he was recognized as a great ……続きを見る

Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete t……続きを見る