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  • Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens

    de Ryan K. Balot ...
    In this original and rewarding combination of intellectual and political history, Ryan Balot offers a thorough historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of greed. Integrating ancient philosophy, poetry, and history, and drawing on modern political thought, the author demonstrates that the Athenian discourse on greed was an essential component of Greek ... Leer más

    $82.79 USD

  • Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws

    de Ryan K. Balot ...
    What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful legislators create a healthy society for citizens whose judgment is typically unsound? In this searching and provocative book, Ryan K. Balot addresses these timely, yet perennial, political questions by offering a novel interpretation of Plato's last and ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • In Search of Humanity

    Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

    de Andrea Radasanu, Timothy W. Burns, Brent Edwin Cusher, Donald Forbes, Bryan-Paul Frost, Ran Halévi, Henry Higuera, Robert Howse, S. N. Jaffe, Michael S. Kochin0, Noah Lawrence1, Mark J. Lutz2, Arthur M. Melzer3, Jeffrey Metzger4, Miguel Morgado5, Waller R. Newell6, Michael Palmer7, Lorraine Smith Pangle8, Thomas L. Pangle9, Marc F. Plattner0, Linda R. Rabieh1, Michael Rosano2, Susan Meld Shell3, Ryan K. Balot4, Paul A. Cantor5, Steven Forde6, Kenneth Hart Green7, L. Joseph Hebert Jr.8, Christopher Kelly9, William B. Parsons0, Diana J. Schaub1, Nathan Tarcov2, Richard Velkley3 ...
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides

    Edición de Ryan Balot, Sarah Forsdyke, Edith Foster ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought

    Edición de Ryan K. Balot ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHTJustice, virtue, and citizenship were at the center of political life in ancient Greece and Rome and were frequently discussed by classical poets, historians, and philosophers. This Companion illuminates Greek and Roman political thought in all its range, diversity, and depth. Thirty-four essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, ... Leer más

    $49.00 USD

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  • The Republic

    de Plato ...
    The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophyPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Open Socrates

    The Case for a Philosophical Life

    de Agnes Callard ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“Charming, intelligent.… Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking.” ?Jennifer Szalai,?New York Times Book ReviewAn iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life’s most important questions.**Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Socratic Method

    A Practitioner's Handbook

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Aristotle's Politics

    de Aristotle ...
    The "groundbreaking translation" of the foundational text of Western political thought, now in a revised and expanded edition ( History of Political Thought).Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. Carnes Lord's lucid translation helped raise scholarly interest in the work and has served as the standard English edition for decades. Widely regarded as the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    de Aristotle ...
    Traducido por Robert C. Bartlett, Susan D. Collins ...
    The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called “the Philosopher.” Drawing on their intimate knowledge of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • History of Political Philosophy

    Edición de Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey ...
    Designed for undergraduate students, a historical survey of the most important political philosophers in the Western tradition.This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2

    The Use of Pleasure

    de Michel Foucault ...
    In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.Throughout The Use of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD