Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david ebrey”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato

    Edited by David Ebrey, Richard Kraut ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Plato's Phaedo

    Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life

    by David Ebrey ...
    Plato's Phaedo is a literary gem that develops many of his most famous ideas. David Ebrey's careful reinterpretation argues that the many debates about the dialogue cannot be resolved so long as we consider its passages in relative isolation from one another, separated from their intellectual background. His book shows how Plato responds to his literary, religious, scientific, and philosophical ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science

    Edited by David Ebrey ...
    Aristotle argued that in theory one could acquire knowledge of the natural world. But he did not stop there; he put his theories into practice. This volume of new essays shows how Aristotle's natural science and philosophical theories shed light on one another. The contributors engage with both biological and non-biological scientific works and with a wide variety of theoretical works, including ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Great Philosophers: Plato

    by Professor Bernard Williams ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors'Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected Plato's views have found themselves working ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Philosophy

    From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers

    by Thomas A. Blackson ...
    Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD.Provides coverage of the Presocratics through the Hellenistic philosophersMoves beyond traditional textbooks that conclude with AristotleA uniquely balanced organization of ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Theaetetus

    by Plato ...
    Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely subjective, composed of the ever-changing flow of impressions we receive from the outside world? Is ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Plato's Republic: A Study

    by Stanley Rosen ...
    In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato’s most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato

    Edited by Richard Kraut ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • From Plato to Platonism

    by Lloyd P. Gerson ...
    "Gerson's book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Platonism research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent system that has an intricate and meaningful relation to later Platonistic philosophical positions. From this point, Plato appears as a Platonist indeed."— Claas Lattman ― CLASSICAL JOURNALWas Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Socratic Turn

    Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science

    by Dustin Sebell ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates was a materialistic natural scientist in his youth, and it was only much later in life—after he had rejected materialistic natural science—that he finally turned, around the age of forty, to the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Philebus

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naïve disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the differing intensities of both pleasure and pain; explores the notion that they can be divided into pure and impure types; considers the relationship ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Virtues of Aristotle

    by D. S. Hutchinson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Aristotle
    Originally published in 1986. Both moral philosophers and philosophical psychologists need to answer the question ‘what is a virtue?’ and the best answer so far give is that of Aristotle. This book is a rigorous exposition of that answer. The elements of Aristotle’s doctrine of virtue are scattered throughout his writings; this book reconstructs his complex and comprehensive doctrine in one place. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD