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  • The Orange Trees of Marrakesh

    Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man

    de Stephen Frederic Dale ...
    An examination of Khaldun's Islamic history of the premodern world, its philosophical underpinnings, and the author himself.In his masterwork Muqaddimah, the Arab Muslim Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), a Tunisian descendant of Andalusian scholars and officials in Seville, developed a method of evaluating historical evidence that allowed him to identify the underlying causes of events. His methodology was ... Leer más

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  • Consolations From A Stoic

    de Seneca ...
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” Seneca composed the Consolations while in exile on Corsica during 40-44 AD and used each opportunity to show off in writing his trendy Stoic ideas about life and the universe. His three letters of condolences De Consolatione ad Marciam, De Consolatione ad Polybium and De Consolatione ad Helviam caused a sensation in Rome when they were c... ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed

    de William O. Stephens ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    This book is a clear and concise introduction to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. His one major surviving work, often titled 'meditations' but literally translated simply as 'to himself', is a series of short, sometimes enigmatic reflections divided seemingly arbitrarily into twelve books and apparently written only to be read by him. For these reasons Marcus is a particularly ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed

    de Dr John Vella ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    For more than a millennium, Aristotle was regarded as the foremost authority in the western world in nearly every subject. His corpus spans a daunting array of subjects and he made significant contributions to every known field of inquiry in the ancient world.In Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed, John Vella explores the historical, philosophical and political context in which aristotle's ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A Chinese American Odyssey: How A Retired Psychologist Makes A Hit As A Historian

    de John Jung ...
    This memoir describes the discoveries, many unexpected, when a Chinese American psychology professor retires and reinvents himself as a public historian of Chinese in America... a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the processes involved in researching, writing, publishing, and promoting books. Writers of books on any topic will find useful information, ideas, and inspiration. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness

    de Dr Alison Scott-Baumann ...
    Ricœur lectured and wrote for over twenty years on negation ('Do I understand something better if I know what it is not, and what is not-ness?') and never published his extensive writings on this subject. Ricœur concluded that there are multiple forms of negation; it can, for example, be the other person (Plato), the not knowable nature of our world (Kant), the included opposite (Hegel), apophatic ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Dying for Ideas

    The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers

    de Costica Bradatan ...
    What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become not only an integral part of their biographies, but are also inseparable from their work. A "death for ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Concept of History

    de Professor Dmitri Nikulin ...
    The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of history that presents it as universal and teleological, progressively moving forward to an end. Although few contemporary philosophers and historians maintain the view that there is strict ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Letters (Illustrated)

    de Plato ...
    In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy. That year Plato was born to a wealthy family: with an uncle who ... Leer más

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  • The Presocratic Philosophers

    A Critical History with a Selection of Texts

    de G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield ...
    Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome

    de Claudia Moatti ...
    Traducido por Janet Lloyd ...
    In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural dynamism and creativity when Roman intellectuals, most notably Cicero and Varro, began to explore ... Leer más

    $122.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle

    Edición de Professor Claudia Baracchi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Companions
    Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD