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The Berkeley Plato

Author : Stephen G. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943597
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Berkeley Plato written by Stephen G. Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the provenance of the so-called Berkeley Herm of Plato, a sculptural portrait that Stephen G. Miller first encountered over thirty years ago in a university storage basement. The head, languishing since its arrival in 1902, had become detached from the body, or herm, and had been labeled a fake. In 2002, while preparing another book, Miller—now an experienced archaeologist—needed an illustration of Plato, remembered this piece, and took another look. The marble, he recognized immediately, was from the Greek islands, the inscription appeared ancient, and the ribbons visible on the head were typical of those in Greek athletic scenes. The Berkeley Plato, rich in scientific, archaeological, and historical detail, tells the fascinating story of how Miller was able to authenticate this long-dismissed treasure. His conclusion, that it is an ancient Roman copy possibly dating from the time of Hadrian, is further supported by art conservation scientist John Twilley, whose essay appears as an appendix. Miller's discovery makes a significant contribution to the worlds of art history, philosophy, archaeology, and sports history and will serve as a starting point for new research in the back rooms of museums.

Plato and the Nerd

Author : Edward Ashford Lee
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262036487
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Nerd written by Edward Ashford Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership. In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering—creating technology—as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans. Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of—for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation—that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote. Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition.

Berkeley's Argument for Idealism

Author : Samuel C. Rickless
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199669422
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Argument for Idealism written by Samuel C. Rickless and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 18th century George Berkeley made the astonishing claim that physical objects such as tables and chairs are nothing but collections of ideas. Samuel Rickless presents a new account of Berkeley's controversial argument, and suggests it is the philosopher's greatest legacy: not only is it valid, but it may well be sound.

The Berkeley Plato

Author : Stephen G. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520258339
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Berkeley Plato written by Stephen G. Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the provenance of the so-called Berkeley Herm of Plato, a sculptural portrait that Stephen G. Miller first encountered over thirty years ago in a university storage basement. The head, languishing since its arrival in 1902, had become detached from the body, or herm, and had been labeled a fake. In 2002, while preparing another book, Miller—now an experienced archaeologist—needed an illustration of Plato, remembered this piece, and took another look. The marble, he recognized immediately, was from the Greek islands, the inscription appeared ancient, and the ribbons visible on the head were typical of those in Greek athletic scenes. The Berkeley Plato, rich in scientific, archaeological, and historical detail, tells the fascinating story of how Miller was able to authenticate this long-dismissed treasure. His conclusion, that it is an ancient Roman copy possibly dating from the time of Hadrian, is further supported by art conservation scientist John Twilley, whose essay appears as an appendix. Miller's discovery makes a significant contribution to the worlds of art history, philosophy, archaeology, and sports history and will serve as a starting point for new research in the back rooms of museums.

Berkeley’s Renovation of Philosophy

Author : Gavin Ardley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401188726
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley’s Renovation of Philosophy written by Gavin Ardley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work I have endeavoured to see Berkeley in his contemporary setting. On the principle that philosophy is ultimately about men, not about abstract problems, I have tried to see Berkeley the philosopher as an expression of Berkeley the man. When this is done, what is perennial in the philosophy may be discerned in and through what is local and temporal. Berkeley then emerges as a pioneer reformer; not so much an innovator as a renovator; one who set out to rescue phi losophy from the enthusiasms of the preceding age; one who strove to seat philosophy once more on the broad human and common sense foundations laid by Plato and Aristotle. Critical studies of some of the more striking of Berkeley's epistemo logical arguments are legion. They commenced with the young Berke ley's first appearance in print, and have continued to this day. But whether they take the form of professions of support for Berkeley, or of bald refutations of Berkeley's supposed fallacies, or whether, like the contemporary "analytical" studies of Moore, Warnock, and Austin, they are subtle exposures of alleged deeply concealed logical muddles, they all tend to share one common characteristic: they select and abstract from the totality of Berkeley, and miss the robust simplicity and universality of Berkeley's intentions. It is the intentions which control the whole, and give the right perspective in which to view the various items.

George Berkeley

Author : Tom Jones
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217483
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book George Berkeley written by Tom Jones and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity College Dublin to his later years as Bishop of Cloyne, Berkeley brought his searching and powerful intellect to bear on the full range of eighteenth-century thought and experience. Jones brings vividly to life the complexities and contradictions of Berkeley’s life and ideas. He advanced a radical immaterialism, holding that the only reality was minds, their thoughts, and their perceptions, without any physical substance underlying them. But he put forward this counterintuitive philosophy in support of the existence and ultimate sovereignty of God. Berkeley was an energetic social reformer, deeply interested in educational and economic improvement, including for the indigenous peoples of North America, yet he believed strongly in obedience to hierarchy and defended slavery. And although he spent much of his life in Ireland, he followed his time at Trinity with years of travel that took him to London, Italy, and New England, where he spent two years trying to establish a university for Bermuda, before returning to Ireland to take up an Anglican bishopric in a predominantly Catholic country. Jones draws on the full range of Berkeley’s writings, from philosophical treatises to personal letters and journals, to probe the deep connections between his life and work. The result is a richly detailed and rounded portrait of a major Enlightenment thinker and the world in which he lived.

Berkeley

Author : Colin Murray Turbayne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009235
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley written by Colin Murray Turbayne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato's Parmenides

Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520925114
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Parmenides written by Samuel Scolnicov and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.

Plato on Art and Beauty

Author : Alison Denham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230368182
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Plato on Art and Beauty written by Alison Denham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions.

Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350267384
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present written by Robert M. Wallace and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the framework of mysticism's higher or more inner reality allows nature, freedom, science, ethics, the arts, and a rational religion-in-the-making to work together rather than conflicting with one another. This is how philosophical mysticism understands the relationships of fact to value, rationality to ethics, and the rest. And this is why Plato's notion of ascent or turning inward to a higher or more inner reality has strongly attracted such major figures in philosophy, religion, and literature as Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein. Wallace's Philosophical Mysticism brings this central strand of western philosophy and culture into focus in a way unique in recent scholarship.

Berkeley

Author : David Berman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780753801949
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley written by David Berman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short book combining extracts from one of the world's greatest thinkers with commentary from one of Britain's most distinguished writers on philosophy.

Berkeley and Malebranche

Author : Arthur Aston Luce
Publisher : Oxford Reprints S
ISBN 13 : 0198243197
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley and Malebranche written by Arthur Aston Luce and published by Oxford Reprints S. This book was released on 1967 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic

Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521839637
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic written by Giovanni R. F. Ferrari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.

Plato the Teacher

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739171399
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Plato the Teacher written by William H. F. Altman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.

Berkeley's Tree

Author :
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595216536
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Berkeley's Tree written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Siris

Author : George Berkeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Siris written by George Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exiling the Poets

Author : Ramona Naddaff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226567273
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Exiling the Poets written by Ramona Naddaff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dimension of literary censorship, Naddaff brings to light Plato's fundamental ambivalence about the value of poetic discourse in philosophical investigation. Censorship, Nadaff argues, is not merely a mechanism of silencing but also provokes new ways of speaking about controversial and crucial cultural and artistic events. It functions philosophically in the Republic to subvert Plato's most crucial arguments about politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Naddaff develops this stunning argument through an extraordinary reading of Plato's work. In books 2 and 3, the first censorship of poetry, she finds that Plato constitutes the poet as a rival with whom the philosopher must vie agonistically. In other words, philosophy does not replace poetry, as most commentators have suggested; rather, the philosopher becomes a worthy and ultimately victorious poetic competitor. In book 10's second censorship, Plato exiles the poets as a mode of self-subversion, rethinking and revising his theory of mimesis, of the immortality of the soul, and, most important, the first censorship of poetry. Finally, in a subtle and sophisticated analysis of the myth of Er, Naddaff explains how Plato himself censors his own censorships of poetry, thus producing the unexpected result of a poetically animated and open-ended dialectical philosophy.