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Book cover for "Aristotle's criticism of presocratic philosophy".
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Octagon Books
Pub. Date:
1964
Language:
English
Book cover for "Early Greek Philosophy".
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Ukemi Audiobooks from W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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In his introduction to Early Greek Philosophy, John Burnet points out the particular focus of the pre-Socratics on the 'cosmological' character of their enquiries. They determined, he explains, to look into the natural world around them. The period can be said to mark the rise of scientific enquiry epitomised by the Atomists and the mathematicians of the Pythagorean School. It was this focus on natural phenomena that set the pattern for the activity...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
2004
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1230L
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English
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"Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, and to try to reconstruct the moves that they were making, to support stories that Western philosophers and historians...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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André Laks teaches ancient philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City and previously taught at the University of Lille, Princeton University, and the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Laks and Glenn W. Most edited and translated the Loeb Classical Library's nine-volume edition of Early Greek Philosophy. When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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At the time of his death, Gregory Vlastos was Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the author of the well-known book Platonic Studies (Princeton). Daniel Graham is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University and is the author of Aristotle's Two Systems. Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date:
2010
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English
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This two-part volume collects the complete fragments and most important testimonies for the leading presocratic philosophers. The Greek and Latin texts are translated on facing pages and accompanied by a brief commentary for each philosopher.
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1260L
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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics-that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence-found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called "the Philosopher." Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle's thought, Robert...
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Beginning with the pre-Socratics, the author examines the Socratic era and summarizes post-Aristotelian philosophy.
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Dover Publications
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English
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Thorough and lucid survey of Western philosophy from pre-Socratics to mid 20th century: major figures, currents, trends, literature, significance, and more. Valuable section on contemporary philosophy - Brentano, Ortega, Heidegger, others. One of the best elementary history of philosophy available.
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Includes the work of ancient thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as modern geniuses such as Descartes, Kant, and Marx, this book chronicles the entire span of philosophy in the Western world. It also includes intimate chapters regarding the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated--Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, coauthor with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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"The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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How can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "Presocratics" to provide a richer understanding of the roots of what used to be called "the Greek...
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Dive into the intellectual origins of Western philosophy with "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers." This comprehensive translation brings to life the fragments of wisdom left by the ancient Greek thinkers, spanning from the enigmatic Orpheus to the brilliant minds of Thales, Pythagoras, Heracleitus, Zeno, and Democritus. Delve into the essence of their philosophies through meticulously translated quotations, discovering the lost books they authored...
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Mayfield Pub. Co
Pub. Date:
[1995]
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English
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"Undergraduate hybrid textbook and reader which covers the history of philosophy, from the Pre-Socratics to the present"--
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Mark Twain's Views on Man, Religion and History "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot." - Mark Twain, What Is Man? and Other Essays Besides his one-of-a-kind fiction craftsmanship, Mark Twain was also an excellent essayist. In his essays, Twain tried to solve the the human kind's riddles and...
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Princeton University Press
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English
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Roland Omnès is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Paris-Sud. His books include Understanding Quantum Mechanics and The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (both Princeton), L'Univers et ses Metamorphoses, and Introduction to Particle Physics. In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy...
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Indiana University Press
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English
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This comprehensive survey of semiotics examines its development from pre-Socratic philosophy to Peirce's Sign Theory and beyond. In Introducing Semiotics, renowned philosopher and semiotician John Deely provides a conceptual overview of the field, covering its development across centuries of Western philosophical thought. It delineates the foundations of contemporary semiotics and concretely reveals just how integral and fundamental the semiotic...
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Philosophy is a subject with a long history and a short memory. In this landmark new study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions many pieces of conventional wisdom and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers such as Empedocles, whose account of the cosmos seems "a mixture of the physics of Stephen Hawking and the romantic novels of...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Daniel W. Graham is A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Aristotle's Two Systems; editor of the two-volume collected papers of Gregory Vlastos, Studies in Greek Philosophy (Princeton); and translator of and commentator on Aristotle: Physics, Book VIII. He is a member of the editorial boards of Apeiron and History of Philosophy Quarterly. Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific...
Book cover for "An intellectual history of psychology".
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