Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato, Paperback - ***

This book develops an embodied model of aesthetic engagement derived from Greek poetry and Plato's philosophy, and uses this model to resolve an in...

Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the pre...

The book discusses short, non-epic, and under-appreciated hexametrical genres, such as oracles, incantations, and laments, and gains new insight in...

Reducere. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architect...

A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Robin Lane FoxNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 28Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--was ...

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

Reducere. The General Introduction contained in the present volume is drawn from Thomas Taylor's five-volume set of the complete Works of Plato, originally p...

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

Reducere. Cartea aceasta este despre locis obscuri. Anume: a cui este expresia Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas?, unde si cand a fost exprimata? Paternit...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Pelagia (University of Oxford, UK) GoulimariNumber of pages: 378Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 232 x 1...

Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American ...

Barasch expertly guides the reader from the interwoven traditions of antiquity, through the aesthetic values of the Middle Ages, to the branching o...

Reducere. What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history o...

Reducere. How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new ...

More treasures from the archive of papers left by philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, edited by her daughter and son-in-law, philosophers Mary Geach an...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. Impu...

Reducere. Why is there evil in a world created by a good and all-powerful God? Ethan Roser, a 19-year-old studying to be a pastor at Wheaton, raised in Afric...

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Publisher: Palgrave MacmillanAuthor(s): William Lane CraigIllustration(s): XI, 305 p.Number of pages: 305Collection: Library of Philosophy and Reli...

Reducere. DescriptionAllegory of the Cave by Plato from The Republic by Plato and translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, w...

DescriptionFor much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect...

Publisher: Page Street Publishing Co.Author(s): Makenna HomerIllustration(s): 60 photosNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x ...

This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitte...

From Logos to Bios: Evolutionary Theory in Light of Plato, Aristotle & Neoplatonism, Paperback

Reducere. In Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life, Alexander Lowen shows how the experience of pleasure or pain determines our emotions, thinking, and behav...

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DescriptionHow philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Devel...

A History of Political Thought analyses market society by surveying the ideas of its most perceptive, thought-provoking observers - critics and def...

DescriptionA thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthologyThis is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded...

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...

Cancer. Suicide. The death of a child. As much as we wish we could avoid tragedies like these, eventually they will strike your church community. W...

In Reading for Pleasure, Kenny Pieper has gathered a range of tried-and-tested strategies to get kids reading, and enjoying it. We hear too often t...

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DescriptionThis anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated ...

A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for par...

Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. The Boundaries of Human Nature ...

Reducere. Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This belief system explains that "all is in God"; as a soul is related to a body, so...

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much...

The second edition of a successful reader (first published in 1980) for intermediate students of ancient Greek which introduces three of ancient Gr...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): David DoyleIllustration(s): 240+ colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensio...

What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that ...

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 second edition of a successful reader (first published in 1979) for intermediate students of ancient Greek which introduces three of ancient Gr...

This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and acc...

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...

Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures ...

Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new editio...