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UM LIVRO SOBRE AS GRANDES QUESTÕES DO MUNDO As grandes questões existenciais que movem a Filosofia. Como surgiu o mundo? De que são feitas as coisas? O que as investigações dos primeiros filósofos s……続きを見る

A fascinating read from G. R. S. Mead, this book is one of the best about Gnosticism. Even though this was written before the Nag Hammadi discoveries, it explains a great deal about what we knew abo……続きを見る

The Divine Pymander is one of the earliest English translations of the Corpus Hermeticum by John Everard in 1650. The mysteries of Hermes Trismegistos outlined in this book are extraordinary. The pr……続きを見る

La gente que nos precedió, gracias a su talento, construyó las primeras civilizaciones desde Mesopotamia a Egipto y luego a India y China hasta alcanzar el mundo occidental. Para ello desarrollaron ……続きを見る

Philosophy means “the love of wisdom.” Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates to help the reader grow in that love. He says that no master of the art of philosophizing has ever been more simple, clea……続きを見る

Plato's dialogues frequently cover several topics and show their connection to each other. The "Phaedrus" is a model of that skill because of its seamless progression from examples of speeches about……続きを見る

The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the "Symposium." The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house to celebrate the ……続きを見る

Hippias of Elis travels throughout the Greek world practicing and teaching the art of making beautiful speeches. On a rare visit to Athens, he meets Socrates who questions him about the nature of hi……続きを見る

Perception, memory, truth, and knowledge all play major roles in this dialogue. What is remarkable about Plato's treatment of those ideas is how contemporary are both the questions and the answers h……続きを見る

Socrates is in prison, sentenced to die when the sun sets. In this final conversation, he asks what will become of him once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution. Socrates and his friend……続きを見る

The "Republic" poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of educatio……続きを見る

A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad……続きを見る

Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' ……続きを見る

Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imaginin……続きを見る

"Plato was not a Platonist! I would like to show . . . that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato without bias or an ax to grind will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend; and not a desiccated ……続きを見る

Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natura……続きを見る

Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the most powerful and im……続きを見る

This volume examines the discussion of the Chaldean Oracles in the work of Proclus, as well as offering a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy. Spanu assesses wheth……続きを見る

Mou Zongsan (1909–1995), one of the representatives of Modern Confucianism, belongs to the most important Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century. From a more traditional Confucian perspective……続きを見る

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same t……続きを見る

Hegel's Antiquity aims to summarize, contextualize, and criticize Hegel's understanding and treatment of major aspects of the classical world, approaching each of the major areas of his historical t……続きを見る

This novel, ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in early Greek intellectual history by exploring his conception of language and the ways in which it represents reality. Divided into ……続きを見る

哲學思考有趣也有用，就把它當成禮物送給這時代的人。 在充滿不同意見的年代， 我們必須學會思辨問題癥結！ 「阿基里斯與烏龜的賽事 主題：運動的分析、思考過程與結果、無限分割、知識與智慧、齊諾悖論、無限收斂……続きを見る

This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them. In contrast with the natural……続きを見る

Teoksessaan Phaidros Platon kuvaa Sokrateen ja Phaidroksen dialogia sielun filosofiasta. Vaikka kirjoitus keskittyykin rakkauden tematiikkaan, se nostaa ennen kaikkea esiin Platonin käsityksen hyväs……続きを見る

Professor Gutas deals here with the lives, sayings, thought, and doctrines of Greek philosophers drawn from sources preserved in medieval Arabic translations and for the most part not extant in the ……続きを見る

The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means t……続きを見る

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, ……続きを見る

Il saggio "Socrate" di Antonio Labriola esplora la figura del filosofo ateniese attraverso una lente critica e storicistica. Labriola analizza le fonti classiche, in particolare Platone e Senofonte,……続きを見る

In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert……続きを見る