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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates

    Edited by Russell E. Jones, Ravi Sharma, Professor Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    This handbook provides detailed philosophical analysis of the life and thought of Socrates across fifteen in-depth chapters. Each chapter engages with a central aspect of the rich tradition of Socratic studies and, after surveying the state of scholarship, points the way forward to new directions of interpretation.A leading team of scholars present dynamic readings of Socrates, extracted from the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Socrates on Self-Improvement

    Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness

    by Nicholas D. Smith ...
    What model of knowledge does Plato's Socrates use? In this book, Nicholas D. Smith argues that it is akin to knowledge of a craft which is acquired by degrees, rather than straightforward knowledge of facts. He contends that a failure to recognize and identify this model, and attempts to ground ethical success in contemporary accounts of propositional or informational knowledge, have led to ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy

    Edited by Professor Nicholas D. Smith ...
    The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers.This volume covers the Presocratics, Sophists, ... Read more

    Was $66.99 USD Now $29.99 USD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates

    by Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction of Socrates' ideas.In this GuideBook, Brickhouse and Smith provide clear explanations of these texts ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic

    by Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Nicholas D. Smith presents an original interpretation of the Republic, considering it to be a book about knowledge and education. Over the course of Summoning Knowledge in Plato's Republic, he argues for four main theses. Firstly, the Republic is not just a work that has a lot to say about education; it is a book that depicts Socrates as attempting to engage his interlocutors in such a way as to ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology

    Edited by Stephen Hetherington, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    This book encourages renewed attention by contemporary epistemologists to an area most of them overlook: ancient philosophy. Readers are invited to revisit writings by Plato, Aristotle, Pyrrho, and others, and to ask what new insights might be gained from those philosophical ancestors. Are there ideas, questions, or lines of thought that were present in some ancient philosophy and that have ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More

    by Nicholas D. Smith ...
    The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Knowledge

    by Ian Evans, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Introductions to the theory of knowledge are plentiful, but none introduce students to the most recent debates that exercise contemporary philosophers. Ian Evans and Nicholas D. Smith aim to change that. Their book guides the reader through the standard theories of knowledge while simultaneously using these as a springboard to introduce current debates. Each chapter concludes with a “Current ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito

    Critical Essays

    by Rachana Kamtekar, Mark McPherran, P T. Geach, S Marc Cohen, Gregory Vlastos, E De Strycker, S R. Slings, Terence Irwin, M F. Burnyeat, Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith, Richard Kraut, David Bostock, Verity Harte, Donald Morrison ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers, investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Socratic Moral Psychology

    by Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith ...
    Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires have no role to play in causing such failure went unchallenged. This book argues against the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    A Practitioner's Handbook

    by Ward Farnsworth ...
    **“Remarkable.”—Wall Street JournalA thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions.**About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The ... Read more

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  • 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