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  • Socrates

    de William J. Prior ...
    Series series Classic Thinkers
    Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, having left behind no works of his own. Instead, his thought is understood primarily through the work of his followers, particularly Plato. Yet Plato's dialogues can offer conflicting portraits of Socrates. On the one hand, he is portrayed as “barren of wisdom”: he has questions but no answers. On the ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

  • Ancient Philosophy

    A Beginner's Guide

    de William J. Prior ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Philosophers didn’t always busy themselves with life’s big questions. The earliest ancient philosophers were primarily concerned with the world of nature, including phenomena such as earthquakes and eclipses. But one enigmatic Greek named Socrates began to explore abstract ideas about human existence. What makes us happy? What is the nature of the soul? And what is our purpose in this universe ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Virtue and Knowledge

    An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

    de William J. Prior ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ancient Philosophy
    Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers.The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the ... Leer más

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    Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time

    de Kenneth Shouler ...
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    Complex ideas explained in everyday language!Is there life after death? Are euthanasia, suicide, or stem cell research ethical acts? Does the use of performance enhancers in sports constitute cheating?These are the types of philosophical questions people face today. Philosophy is not a dead set of doctrines--it's a living body of knowledge that you can use to guide behavior and problem solving. In ... Leer más

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  • Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference

    Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir

    de Sara Heinämaa ...
    Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi_me Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding Beauvoir's argument. In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference, Sara HeinSmaa rediscovers those neglected passages in her quest to follow Beauvoir's line of thinking. HeinSmaa, like some ... Leer más

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  • Saga Six Pack 6 (Illustrated)

    de Various Artists ...
    “Braver are many in word than in deed…”Saga Six Pack 6 is a Norse Myth megamix of original sagas, literary retellings and academic perspectives:A Thane of Wessex by Charles W. Whistler.Harald Harfager's Saga by Snorri Sturluson.Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard.The Valkyrs by Hélène Adeline Guerber.Saga of Hakon Herdebreid ("Hakon the Broad-Shouldered") by Snorri Sturluson.The Elves by Hélène ... Leer más

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  • Moral letters to Lucilius Volume 3

    de Seneca, Lucius Annaeus ...
    Traducido por Gummere, Richard Mott ...
    The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (English: Moral Epistles to Lucilius) is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. In these letters, Seneca gives Lucilius tips on how to become a more devoted Stoic. Lucilius was, at that time, the ... Leer más

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  • How to Run a Country

    An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders

    de Marcus Tullius Cicero ...
    Traducido por Philip Freeman ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together. Sound familiar? Cicero's letters, speeches, and other writings are filled with timeless wisdom and practical insight about ... Leer más

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  • Manhood and Politics

    A Feminist Reading in Political Theory

    de Wendy L. Brown ...
    Series series New Feminist Perspectives
    'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS ... Leer más

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  • Aristotle - On the Soul

    de Aristotle ...
    Series series Greek Philosophy
    On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς, Perì Psūchês; Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations. Thus plants have the capacity for nourishment and reproduction, the minimum that must be possessed by any kind of living organism. Lower ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy in Multiple Voices

    de Randall Halle, Dale Turner, David Haekwon Kim, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Professor Lewis R. Gordon, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Nancy Tuana ...
    Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history. The text raises significant meta-philosophical questions around the issue of who constitutes the "philosophical we" through a delineation and valorization of ... Leer más

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  • Sri Brahma-samhita

    with the commentary Dig-darsani-tika of Sri Jiva Gosvami

    de Sri Jiva Gosvami, Bhanu Swami ...
    According to Vedic tradition, these "Hymns of Brahma" were recited or sung countless millennia ago by the first embodied being, Lord Brahma, just before he created the universe. The book consists of a brief description of Brahma's enlightenment by Lord Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, followed by Brahma's extraordinarily beautiful prayers elucidating the content of his revelation ... Leer más

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