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Book Synopsis The Nous of the Greeks by : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Download or read book The Nous of the Greeks written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Sons of the Fire-Mist quickened the human mind with the dew of their own spirit and essence.
Book Synopsis Bantu Philosophy by : Placide Tempels
Download or read book Bantu Philosophy written by Placide Tempels and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paul Distilled written by Gary W. Burnett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What the apostle Paul has to say is transformative and utterly inspiring. But too often he is clouded in complicated explanations and murky misunderstandings. Paul Distilled gets to the essence of Paul, and uncovers what is at the heart of his thinking and why he's had such an impact on the world since the first century until today. Drawing on many years of teaching and study of Paul's writings, Gary Burnett explains the driving forces behind the apostle's thinking from the letters he wrote to groups of Jesus-followers dotted around the Roman empire, addressing the real issues they faced, and shows why this matters today. A study guide with each chapter will enable church groups to get to grips with the life-changing potential of understanding Paul better.
Download or read book The Talking Greeks written by John Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion in the Hellenic world, however, was the most obvious one: speech. It explores how it was the capacity for authoritative speech which was held to separate humans from other animals, gods from humans, men from women, Greeks from non-Greeks, citizens from slaves, and the mundane from the heroic. John Heath illustrates how Homer's epics trace the development of immature young men into adults managing speech in entirely human ways and how in Aeschylus' Oresteia only human speech can disentangle man, beast, and god. Plato's Dialogues are shown to reveal the consequences of Socratically imposed silence. With its examination of the Greek focus on speech, animalization, and status, this book offers new readings of key texts and provides significant insights into the Greek approach to understanding our world.
Book Synopsis Stolen Legacy by : George G. M. James
Download or read book Stolen Legacy written by George G. M. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.
Book Synopsis Plato on God as Nous by : Stephen Philip Menn
Download or read book Plato on God as Nous written by Stephen Philip Menn and published by Journal on the History of Phil. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first sustained modern investigation of Plato's theology. A central thesis of the book is that Plato had a theology--not just a mythology for the ideal city, not just the theory of forms or the theory of cosmic souls, but also, irreducible to any of these, an account of God as Nous (Reason), the source of rational order both to souls and the world of bodies. The understanding of God as Reason, and of the world as governed directly or indirectly by Reason, is worked out in the dialogues of Plato's last period, the Statesman, Philebus, Timaeus, and Laws. These dialogues offer a strategy for explaining the physical world that goes beyond anything in the middle dialogues, and gives the best starting point for understanding the cosmologies and theologies of Aristotle, the Stoics, and later ancient thinkers. Menn focuses on the Timaeus as Plato's most sustained effort to provide what (according to the Phaedo) Anaxagoras had failed to deliver: an explanation of the world through Reason, showing that things are as they are because it is best, or because it best serves the order of the world as a whole. Anaxagoras was disappointed because he explained things through their material constituents, without explaining why the constituents are ordered as they are; but the theory of forms has the same defect, since itcannot explain why different parts of the universe participate in different forms according to a particular order. The Timaeus and other late dialogues attempt to supply the missing explanation of the ordering of the physical world. These dialogues do not retreat from the middle dialogue theory of forms, nor do they escape into an esoteric theory of numbers; but they add to the middle dialogues an analysis of the principles necessary to account for the existence and partial intelligibility of the sensible world--not only forms and a material substance but also Nous and souls. Although the demiurge of the Timaeus (and his counterpart the Nous of Philebus) is represented as a cause both to souls and bodies, most scholars have been reluctant to identify the demiurge as a being separate from and superior to souls, because they think that both the meaning of the Greek word nous and Plato's own statements require that Nous iseither a kind of soul (mind or rational soul) or something inseparable from souls (rational mental activity). Reexamining the linguistic evidence and the Platonic texts, Menn argues that nous can mean something separate from souls, namely the virtue of rationality or intelligence that souls participate in. Menn argues that Anaxagoras' Nous should be construed as such a virtue; then he examines what status this virtue has in the context of the Platonic theory of forms, and how itis a cause both to souls and to bodies. Soul plays a crucial role in mediating the causality of Nous and introducing rational order into the world of bodies, but neither soul in general nor the world-soul in particular can be identified with Nous. Menn stresses the pre-Socratic context for the cosmology and theology of Plato's late dialogues; he argues for the importance of Diogenes of Appolonia in particular, and he reconstructs a possible new fragment of Diogenes from the Timaeus and from the Hippocratic treatise On Breaths. In the Timaeus and other late dialogues Plato attempts to do better than his predecessors by standards implicit in Socrates' critique of Anaxagoras in the Phaedo, but what Plato offers remains consciously provisional. Aristotle argues that the Timaeus remains liable to some of the same criticisms that Socrates had leveled against Anaxagoras, and Aristotle's own cosmology and theology take up Plato's challenge to carry out Anaxagoras' promise of an explanation of the world through Nous, and attempt to improve on the Timaeus asPlato had improved on Anaxagoras. In this way the Timaeus serves as an essential starting point, not onlyfor those later ancient philosophers who took it as an authoritative statement on the world and on God but also for those who took it as a challenge to do better.
Book Synopsis Semitic, Egypt and Africa, geographical, archaic Greece and the East, Persia and Turkey, China, Central Asia and the Far East, Australasia, anthropology and mythology sections by : Edward Delmar Morgan
Download or read book Semitic, Egypt and Africa, geographical, archaic Greece and the East, Persia and Turkey, China, Central Asia and the Far East, Australasia, anthropology and mythology sections written by Edward Delmar Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greek Thinkers: book I. The beginnings. book II. From metaphysics to positive science. book III. The age of enlightenment. 1901 by : Theodor Gomperz
Download or read book Greek Thinkers: book I. The beginnings. book II. From metaphysics to positive science. book III. The age of enlightenment. 1901 written by Theodor Gomperz and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greek world by : Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Download or read book The Greek world written by Oliver Joseph Thatcher and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Greek Philosophies of Nature by : Andrew Gregory
Download or read book Early Greek Philosophies of Nature written by Andrew Gregory and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them. In contrast with the natural world of the earliest Greek literature, often the result of arbitrary divine causation, in the work of early Ionian philosophers we see the idea of a cosmos: ordered worlds where there is complete regularity. How was this order generated and maintained and what underpinned those regularities? What analogies or models were used for the order of the cosmos? What did they think about causation and explanatory structure? How did they frame natural laws? Andrew Gregory draws on recent work on mechanistic philosophy and its history, on the historiography of the relation of science to art, religion and magic, and on the fragments and doxography of the early Greek thinkers to argue that there has been a tendency to overestimate the extent to which these early Greek philosophies of nature can be described as 'mechanistic'. We have underestimated how far they were committed to other modes of explanation and ontologies, and we have underestimated, underappreciated and indeed underexplored how plausible and good these philosophies would have been in context.
Book Synopsis Theodor Gomperz: Greek Thinkers. Vol. 1 by :
Download or read book Theodor Gomperz: Greek Thinkers. Vol. 1 written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "GOMPERZ: GREEK THINKERS VOL. 1 GOMPGT E-BOOK".
Book Synopsis Children of Achilles by : John Freely
Download or read book Children of Achilles written by John Freely and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the first Hellenic enlightenment, giving birth to Homer, Herodotus and the first philosophers of nature. For more three millennia the Anatolian Greeks preserved their identity and culture as the tides of history washed over them, enduring conflicts that historians since Herodotus have seen as an unending clash of civilizations between East and West. Today, the memory of the Greek diaspora from Asia Minor lives on in the music of rebetika, the threnodies known as amanadas, and the poetry of Seferis, and even now the descendants of those exiles speak with nostalgia of 'i kath'imas Anatoli' - our own Anatolia, their lost homeland. This, told for the first time, is their story, from glorious beginnings to a bitter end, a story that continues to echo through the ages and across continents.
Book Synopsis The Greek Tradition, from the Death of Socrates to the Council of Chalcedon (399 B.C. to 451 A.D.): Christ the Word by : Paul Elmer More
Download or read book The Greek Tradition, from the Death of Socrates to the Council of Chalcedon (399 B.C. to 451 A.D.): Christ the Word written by Paul Elmer More and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greece in 1823 and 1824 by : Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington
Download or read book Greece in 1823 and 1824 written by Leicester Stanhope Earl of Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A shorter Greek primer, revised by C.G. Botting by :
Download or read book A shorter Greek primer, revised by C.G. Botting written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "Know Thyself" in Greek and Latin Literature ... by : Eliza Gregory Wilkins
Download or read book "Know Thyself" in Greek and Latin Literature ... written by Eliza Gregory Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :William Keith Chambers Guthrie Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :9780521294201 Total Pages :560 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (942 download)
Book Synopsis A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans by : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Download or read book A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans written by William Keith Chambers Guthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
