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Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Moralia: pt. 1. Platonic questions written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plutarch's Moralia: pt. 1. Platonic essays written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801466970
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Platonic Ethics, Old and New written by Julia Annas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.
Author : Taki Suto
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216049
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Boethius on Mind, Grammar and Logic written by Taki Suto and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boethius (c.480-c.525/6), who is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, has been accused of misinterpreting Aristotle’s logical works in his translations and commentaries thereof. Building on recent scholarship in the philosophy of late antiquity, this book challenges some of the past interpretations of Boethius and reveals significant features of his semantics and logic. With comparisons between his and contemporary arguments and attention to the terminology of late antiquity, this work is of use to those interested in semantics, logic and grammar from antiquity to the modern day. Furthermore, this book’s new conclusions aim to reinvigorate interest in this much-maligned and poorly understood philosopher.
Author : Crystal Addey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315449463
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by Crystal Addey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Focusing on diverse types of divination, including oracles, astrology, and the reading of omens and signs in the entrails of sacrificial animals, chance utterances and other earthly and celestial phenomena, this volume reveals that divination was conceived of as a significant path to the attainment of insight and understanding by the ancient Greeks and Romans. It also explores the connections between divination and other branches of knowledge in Greco-Roman antiquity, such as medicine and ethnographic discourse. Drawing on anthropological studies of contemporary divination and exploring a wide range of ancient philosophical, historical, technical and literary evidence, chapters focus on the interconnections and close relationship between divine and human modes of knowledge, in relation to nuanced and subtle formulations of the blending of divine, cosmic and human agency; philosophical approaches towards and uses of divination (particularly within Platonism), including links between divination and time, ethics, and cosmology; and the relationship between divination and cultural discourses focusing on gender. The volume aims to catalyse new questions and approaches relating to these under-investigated areas of ancient Greek and Roman life. which have significant implications for the ways in which we understand and assess ancient Greek and Roman conceptions of epistemic value and variant ways of knowing, ancient philosophy and intellectual culture, lived, daily experience in the ancient world, and religious and ritual traditions. Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity will be of particular relevance to researchers and students in classics, ancient history, ancient philosophy, religious studies and anthropology who are working on divination, lived religion and intellectual culture, but will also appeal to general readers who are interested in the widespread practice and significance of divination in the ancient world.
Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793615969
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Ascent to the Beautiful written by William H. F. Altman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium, en route to Diotima’s ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught—and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy’s eternal curriculum—Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.
Author : Max J. Lee
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161496604
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind written by Max J. Lee and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Max J. Lee examines the philosophies of Platonism and Stoicism during the Greco-Roman era and their rivals including Diaspora Judaism and Pauline Christianity on how to transform a person's character from vice to virtue. He describes each philosophical school's respective teachings on diverse moral topoi such as emotional control, ethical action and habit, character formation, training, mentorship, and deity." --provided by publisher
Author : Pekka Himanen
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307529584
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Hacker Ethic written by Pekka Himanen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms of the rest of your life so that they amplify each other. It is a fundamentally new work ethic that is revolutionizing the way business is being done around the world. Without hackers there would be no universal access to e-mail, no Internet, no World Wide Web, but the hacker ethic has spread far beyond the world of computers. It is a mind-set, a philosophy, based on the values of play, passion, sharing, and creativity, that has the potential to enhance every individual’s and company’s productivity and competitiveness. Now there is a greater need than ever for entrepreneurial versatility of the sort that has made hackers the most important innovators of our day. Pekka Himanen shows how we all can make use of this ongoing transformation in the way we approach our working lives.
Author : Roger Herz-Fischler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486152324
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book A Mathematical History of the Golden Number written by Roger Herz-Fischler and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study traces the historic development of division in extreme and mean ratio ("the golden number") from its first appearance in Euclid's Elements through the 18th century. Features numerous illustrations.
Author : Roger Herz-Fischler
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889201528
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book A Mathematical History of Division in Extreme and Mean Ratio written by Roger Herz-Fischler and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katalin Nun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351874691
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Volume 2, Tome II: Kierkegaard and the Greek World - Aristotle and Other Greek Authors written by Katalin Nun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition. A series of figures of varying importance in Kierkegaard's authorship are treated, ranging from early Greek poets to late Classical philosophical schools. In general it can be said that the Greeks collectively constitute one of the single most important body of sources for Kierkegaard's thought. He studied Greek from an early age and was profoundly inspired by what might be called the Greek spirit. Although he is generally considered a Christian thinker, he was nonetheless consistently drawn back to the Greeks for ideas and impulses on any number of topics. He frequently contrasts ancient Greek philosophy, with its emphasis on the lived experience of the individual in daily life, with the abstract German philosophy that was in vogue during his own time. It has been argued that he modeled his work on that of the ancient Greek thinkers specifically in order to contrast his own activity with that of his contemporaries.
Author : James Porter
Publisher : Study of Comparative Folklore & Mythology University of Cali
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Ballad Image written by James Porter and published by Study of Comparative Folklore & Mythology University of Cali. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Martin
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161597621
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Regression in Galatians written by Neil Martin and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exposing strengths and weaknesses in the 'Old', 'New' and 'Radical New' Perspectives on Paul, Neil Martin's analysis of regression language in Galatians in its first-century context argues that the apostle's supposed anti-law polemic reflects an underlying antipathy for pagan, not Jewish religiosity." --
Author : Philip N. Richardson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532641699
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Temple of the Living God written by Philip N. Richardson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When writing to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul used figurative temple language repeatedly to shape the identity of his audience ("Temple of God," "Temple of the Holy Spirit," and "Temple of the Living God"). While other scholars have identified the place of the Jerusalem temple in Paul's thinking or the impact of temples in the life of Corinth, there has been no comprehensive study of the way that figurative temple language in philosophy could have influenced the Corinthians' worldview. Hellenistic philosophy was pervasive in the first century and provided theological guidance for faith and practice to Paul's Gentile audience before their conversion. Philip N. Richardson provides a comprehensive survey of figurative temple language in Hellenistic philosophy, shedding light on the way that the kinds of philosophical thought known in cities like Corinth may have influenced the Corinthians to think about figurative temple language. This study throws into sharp relief the similarities and differences between Paul's use of temple language and that of philosophy, and illuminates Paul's setting of this language in the wider framework of 1-2 Corinthians and his purpose for its use in the argument of the letters.
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191043893
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds written by Peter Adamson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.
Author : Emily B. Lyle
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Archaic Cosmos written by Emily B. Lyle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P F M Fontaine
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004663754
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dualism in Roman History V written by P F M Fontaine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
