The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought. Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics, New ed, Paperback - ***

The understanding of motion - the core concept of natural philosophy - underwent crucial changes in Greek thinking from Parmenides to Aristotle. Th...

Sets out for the first time the ancient views and debates about productive knowledge or techne through the whole period of antiquity, covering all ...

The first systematic analysis of Aristotle's concept of lexis, which is approached on three interconnected levels: the first dealing with language ...

Provides a new and broader perspective on ancient theater by focusing on its origins and development in Sicily and southern Italy, especially in co...

This Element presents a critical review of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology. It examines how emphasis in cultural and cross-cultur...

Reducere. Poincare's explanation of the scientific method and the steps taken by scientists to discern the best experiments and results for the advancement o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gottlob FregeTranslator: J. L. AustinThe Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought;...

Investigates posthuman transformation (becoming angels and demons) among poets, philosophers, and theologians of the ancient Mediterranean world. B...

The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main foc...

This Element looks at the problem of inter-translation between mathematical realism and anti-realism and argues that so far as realism is inter-tra...

Politics perspectives have become a cornerstone in the field of international business. This book offers the first detailed introduction to the fou...

Bringing together for the first time all the available evidence for the origination and development of the concept of Arcadia, from the Homeric per...

The relationship between technology, philosophy, and politics is both contentious and vital to our understanding of human nature and the ways human...

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill EducationAuthor(s): Barry ChessPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 529 x 291 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera f...

Examines aesthetic and ontological questions raised by Greco-Roman myths of human metamorphosis into non-human musical beings. Placing the myths wi...

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

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Reducere. R. W. Morgan proposes that St. Paul introduced Christianity to Celtic Britain, and that the Christian church and the first ancestors of the modern ...

This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that dancing alone signifies transgressi...

Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and exam...

Reducere. This graduate-level book is well known for its proof that many mathematical systems--including lattice theory, abstract projective geometry, and cl...

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Reducere. Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf es...

"Everything is contradictory, " Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one of the most difficult and neglected topics in Hegelian ...

In this concise classic, Paul Ehrenfest ― one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists ― reformulated the foundations of the statistical appr...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Richard KitchenerNumber of pages: 578Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 155 x 230 x 36Cover type: P...

A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decade...

Reducere. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain a...

This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of human reflection on demons, angels, and other transmundane powers, as well as the dif...

Reducere. In the world of sports, the most important component is the athlete. After all, without athletes there would be no sports. In ancient Greece, athle...

This richly illustrated volume presents Greek funerary monuments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's outstanding collection that offer insight in...

Reducere. In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the ...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

The Sun Yat-sen Foundation in China supported all the local expenses of the symposium and Sun Yat-sen University of Medicine in Guangzhou, China se...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Debora (United States Naval Academy) KatzNumber of pages: 1424Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 227 x 28...

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy pub...

Reducere. Tracing the influence of ancient Greek sources on the development of republican theory in Europe and America, this book argues that an important tr...

Description'Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World' brings together papers d...

The book studies the destruction of cities in the Ancient Greek World by comparing literary and archaeological evidence. It shows that ancient auth...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Explores the creative potential of juxtaposing the cultural foundations of the Mediterranean world and ancient China. Embarking from the observatio...

From Villain to Hero explores the reception of Odysseus in philosophy from the Socratics to the Middle Platonists.Publisher: The University of Mich...

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This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the ref...