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  • Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom

    Edited by Keith Lehrer, B.J. Lum, Beverly A. Slichta, N.D. Smith ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book derives from a 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom. The Institute took place at the University of California, Berkeley, and was co-directed by Keith Lehrer and Nicholas D. Smith. The aims of the Institute were several: we sought to reintroduce wisdom as a topic of discussion among contemporary philosophers, to undertake an ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The Republic

    New Revised Edition

    by Plato ...
    Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fictional dialogues the characters of Socrates as well as various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether the just man is ... Read more

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  • The Allegory of the Cave

    by Plato ...
    Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is one of the most elegant and important metaphors in Western philosophy. It is a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter, in which Plato elucidates his Theory of Forms.This new digital edition of The Allegory of the Cave includes an image gallery. ... Read more

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  • Theaetetus

    Translated by John McDowell ...
    by Lesley Brown, Plato ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of the key issues in philosophy: what is knowledge? Though no definite answer is reached, the discussion is penetrating and wide-ranging, covering the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stoic Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)

    Memoirs of Socrates, Euthydemus, Stoic Self-control, Gorgias, Protagoras and Biographies

    by Various Artists ...
    “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”- Socrates.Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation on the nature of the universe and knowledge in the art of life and politics. The most famous were Protagoras, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Reason

    Knowledge, Religion and Science in The West

    by David Hopson ...
    Where did God come from? Where did He go? What did science inherit from religion? Why does any of this matter? Beyond Reason is a plea for tolerance and understanding in the guise of a 3,000 year intellectual history of religion and science, from the Greeks to the geeks. Conceived for 'A' level students and undergraduates, the book is finding a much wider audience in publication. Critics and ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Embodiment

    A History

    Edited by Justin E.H. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Philosophical Concepts
    Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities. Why entities should find themselves in this condition is the central concern of the present volume. The problem includes, but also goes beyond, the philosophical problem of body: that is, what the essence of a body is, and how, if at all, it ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • All From One

    A Guide to Proclus

    Edited by Pieter d'Hoine, Marije Martijn ...
    Proclus (412-485 A.D.) was one of the last official 'successors' of Plato at the head of the Academy in Athens at the end of Antiquity, before the school was finally closed down in 529. As a prolific author of systematic works on a wide range of topics and one of the most influential commentators on Plato of all times, the legacy of Proclus in the cultural history of the west can hardly be ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus

    by Andrea Tschemplik ...
    Knowledge and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus advances a new explanation for the apparent failure of the Theaetetus to come to a satisfactory conclusion about the definition of knowledge. Tschemplik argues that understanding this aporetic dialogue in light of the fact that it was conducted with two noted mathematicians shows that for Plato, mathematics was not the paradigm for philosophy. She ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy

    Edited by Gabriele Galluzzo, Michael J. Loux ...
    Are there any universal entities? Or is the world populated only by particular things? The problem of universals is one of the most fascinating and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics, with roots in ancient and medieval philosophy. This collection of new essays provides an innovative overview of the contemporary debate on universals. Rather than focusing exclusively on the traditional ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

    The Story of Necessity

    Edited by Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares, Adriane Rini ...
    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Wittgenstein and Plato

    Connections, Comparisons and Contrasts

    by Luigi Perissinotto, Begoña Ramón Cámara ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses. Here well-known scholars of Wittgenstein and Plato illuminate the relationship between the two philosophers both philologically and philosophically, and provide new interpretation keys of two of the leading figures of Western thought. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD