Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Paperback - ***

This long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original ...

A readable and entertaining history of philosophy. Traces the beginning of Western philosophy culminating in Plato and Aristotle.

Reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretati...

Reducere. Greg Johnson's From Plato to Postmodernism collects essays and lectures on philosophical, political, and cultural themes in Plato, Aristotle, Vico,...

Plato (424/423 - 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learni...

Reducere. Plato (424/423 - 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learni...

Reducere. The theme of the Nicomachean Ethics is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men sh...

A guide to the most important and influential works of ancient Greek philosophy. The book begins with mythology and the pre-Socratics, then proceed...

Reducere. "Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to univ...

With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W...

Introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle to the present...

Reducere. This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers ...

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What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish right from wrong? And how should human virtues be translated into a just society? Thes...

Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical t...

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Reducere. First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology--The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger's lecture course at t...

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Featuring quotations by Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and many more, A History of Western Philosophy in...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: John MorreallThis book assesses the adequacy of the traditional theories of laughter and humor, suggests revised theories, ...

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is ``identity`` now a la...

Reducere. Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed by some of the m...

DescriptionWhat is design philosophy and why is it needed? This important book explains the discipline's recent emergence, the key questions which ...

Reducere. Description"A Small History of Political Thought" is a collection of essays written by Victor Nuovo. It contains thirty-three essays beginning with...

Reducere. Living Theurgy is a masterpiece combining scholarly excellence with lucid practicality. Theurgy ('god-working') is a combination of ritual mystical...

Now greatly expanded in its third edition, Political Philosophy: The Essential Texts is ideal for survey courses in political philosophy. Offering ...

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Publisher: PushMe PressAuthor(s): Stephen LoxtonIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 124Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we...

The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wa...

Reducere. The field of ancient Greek ethics is increasingly emerging as a major branch of philosophical enquiry, and students and scholars of ancient philoso...

Reducere. Classic Philosophy for the Modern Man is unlike any other philosophy book you may have read. It is inspired by a single concept: that, to thrive in...

Reducere. This book provides a practical reading guide to the thought of Plotinus, the great philosopher who was born in Alexandria in the third century a.d....

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DescriptionStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still i...

This unique book by Stewart Shapiro looks at a range of philosophical issues and positions concerning mathematics in four comprehensive sections. P...

DescriptionJean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending ...

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Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Political Thought offers a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political though...

Reducere. Aristotle's Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BC. In Greek, it is titled ΤΕΧΝΗ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗ, ...

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, b...

Join the greatest debate in the history of creation Does God exist? Without doubt, the greatest question to face humanity in its history, the contr...

A philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of C...

In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers...

Reducere. No other living tradition has been thinking about thinking longer than the Catholic Church. With carefully selected readings from classical, patris...

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is ...

Reducere. This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato - Aristotle ...

Reducere. Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy, " yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambival...

Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by on...

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Description"Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophie was one of the grand products of the renaissance in historical learning that took place in early nin...

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Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity...

DescriptionSince its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introd...

A look at the philosophical underpinnings of the hit TV show, Mad Men With its swirling cigarette smoke, martini lunches, skinny ties, and tight pe...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Karen GlassThe educators of ancient Greece and Rome gave the world a vision of what education should be. The medieval and R...

Reducere. Over six previous editions, Twelve Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1954, "Stolen Legacy" is the thought-provoking and controversial book by George G. M. James, a Guyanese-American hist...

Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the f...

Reducere. The present volume is a verbatim reproduction of Thomas Taylor's 2nd Edition of his Hymns of Orpheus. This 2nd edition (1824) represents Taylor's e...