Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

This book combines the mainstream liberal arguments for religious tolerance with arguments from religious traditions in India to offer insights into appropriate attitudes toward religious 'others' from the perspective of the devout.

This Key Concepts pivot discusses the contemporary relevance of the ancient Chinese concept of Tianxia or 'All-Under-Heaven' and argues the case for a new global political philosophy.

This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (he/?

This book identifies that "e;Xiang thinking"e; is the eidetic connotation and a fundamental trait of traditional Chinese thinking, offering insights of considerable methodological significance.

Este volumen recoge más de una veintena de trabajos que, tras una cuidadosa preparación y evaluación, constituyen una muestra variopinta de las tendencias investigativas de los estudios clásicos en español.

Su autor propone una novedosa interpretacion de los conceptos de induccion e intuicion presente en el corpus aristotelicum.

Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving.

Sophist - Plato - Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

En este volumen se aborda la filosofía de Epicuro (341 - 270 a.

En este primer volumen de la colección La otra palabra, Mariana Gardella Hueso invita a conocer la vida y obra de algunas griegas, filósofas, poetas y oradoras.

When this book was first published, more than five years ago, I added an appendix on How the Pythagoreans discovered Proposition 11.

Scepticism in the History of Philosophy is a dialogue between leading Latin American and North American scholars concerned with the history of scepticism from ancient times to present day philosophy.

This book derives from a 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom.

The present book is the English version of a monograph 'Die aristotelische Syllogistik', which first appeared ten years ago in the series of Abhand- 1 lungen edited by the Academy of Sciences in Gottingen.

Aristotle's Idea of the Soul considers the nature of the soul within Aristotle's psychology and natural philosophy.

lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to the person who dies.

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This book is a systematic history of one of the oldest problems in the philosophy of space and time: How is the change from one state to its opposite to be described?

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

Intended for scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and music, this book examines the legacy of the historical coincidence of the emergence of science and opera in the early modern period.

At opposite ends of over two millenia Hegel and Aristotle, virtually alone of the great European thinkers, consciously attempted to criticize and develop the thought of their predecessors into systems of their own.

The purpose of this study is to determine Aristotle's attitude toward the content and method of Plato's natural science.

This study forms part of a wider investigation whieh will inquire into the relationship of Ontology and Anthropology.

This book is intended to offer an interpretation of an important aspect of Plato's philosophy.

The present work is substantially a dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Toronto.

N eoplatonism begins explicitly with Plotinus in the third century of our era.

Epictetus presents difficulties for the historiall of ideas.

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Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation.

This study began as a paper.

The present study had its origins long ago in a doctorate thesis presented at the University of Cambridge.

Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the problem of the infinite has kept surfacing in different but important ways.

The present work is substantially a dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Toronto.

This book is a revised version, with some omissions, of a Cambridge doctoral dissertation submitted in 1963: I fear that it still bears marks of its origins.

In his teachings and through his choice of the dialogue-form as a mode of communication, Plato emphasized the communal aspect of intellectual work.

In an age which is supposedly experiencing a sexual revolution, a volume of thoughtful essays on eros is not only not out of place but perhaps is a positive contribution to the understanding of contempor- ary man.