The Teleology of Action in Plato's Republic

In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon,...

Reducere. Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an...

Reducere. A guide to the Rolland approach to teaching, written by Paul Rolland. Rolland was a remarkable violinist, and he left a unique legacy for the strin...

Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the go...

What is justice? How should an individual and a society behave justly? And how do they learn how to do so? These are just some of the core question...

Reducere. Plato's "The Republic" is a Socratic dialogue written sometime around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of th...

Reducere. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical p...

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Reducere. The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the jus...

The second volume of a three-volume edition presenting the first complete translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Republic - the only sustain...

This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato's Republic, throwing light upon the text's arguments and main themes, placing them in the wi...

Reducere. A fresh and comprehensive account of the most frequently read work of Greek philosophy, for students and researchers.

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of "susta...

The first-hand account of a Private in Wellington's Army - vividly portrayed through his own letters. 'Simply marvellous' TESPublisher: Orion Publi...

Reducere. This history of physics focuses on the question, "How do bodies act on one another across space?" The variety of answers illustrates the function o...

Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, a...

Anticorruption reform in the Republic of Moldova - Stoica Cristinel Popa

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 416Collection: The Leo Strauss Transcript SeriesPublication date: ...

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Reducere. This report examines the governance structures and economic and social responses that contributed to the success of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in ...

Life of Action II is here and takes readers behind-the-scenes once again for a compelling series of conversations, shedding light on the overlooked...

A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.

Explores the Timaeus' impact on pre-modern Greek and Arabic conceptualizations of medicine and will appeal to classicists, medievalists, and histor...

Muriel Wiley lives in a broken world. After World War III, planet Earth is left destitute of life. Or so she thought. There is something more. Some...

Reducere. Editie in limba engleza. Eastern European and former communist countries are well known for their high corruption, weak economies and struggling de...

The Army of the Potomac was a hotbed of political activity during the Civil War. In this comprehensive reassessment of the army's politics, Zachery...

Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded i...

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Reducere. Chances are when you think of sharks, it's the great white or hammerhead that swim into view. But, there are over 400 species swimming in the ocean...

Reducere. The significance of Plato's Apology of Socrates is impossible to overestimate. An account of the famous trial of Socrates in 399 b.c., it appeals t...

A New York Times bestselling author reveals the story of a nearly forgotten moment in American history, when mass violence was not an aberration, b...

DescriptionA prime contemporary concern - how to maintain fair market relations - is addressed through this study of the regulation of bread prices...

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DescriptionWith over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green r...

DescriptionAdvances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experimen...

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Reducere. Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through...

Shark! Presenting the most powerful and curious of the 400+ species swimming in our oceans today. Celebrating their diversity; how cunning they hav...

Get ready to dive deep into the wonderful world of sharks! Take a look at some of the world's weirdest sharks and uncover the truth behind real-lif...

Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. Explorat...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): John SallisNumber of pages: 192Collection: The Collected Writings of John SallisPublication date: 202...

Publisher: Crescent HouseAuthor(s): Major H. W., CBE, DSO, MC, Bar TilmanIllustration(s): 4 Maps; 19 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 172...

When a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a sym...

DescriptionThe year was 1986... when Art Baltazar created his first Super Heroes. Before TINY TITANS. Before ITTY BITTY HELLBOY. Before the AW YEAH...

Monumental cornerstone work on the Revolutionary/Napoleonic Army and its commanders. This is a thoroughly documented work of immense scholarship. I...