Author : Bruce A. Kimball
Publisher : College Board
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In this prize-winning book, Bruce Kimball provides a cogent study of the historical evolution of the idea of liberal education. Clearly and forcefully argued, the book portrays this evolution as a struggle between two contending points of view - one oratorical and the other philosophical - that have interacted, often controversially, from antiquity to the present.
Author : Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Islamic philosophy
ISBN : 9780195127003
This is the second volume in a projected five-volume work covering the full expanse of Persian philosophical thought from the Zoroastrianism of the pre-Christian era up to the present day. Volume II is devoted entirely to the work of the Isma'ili and Hermetic-Pythagorean philosophers.
Author : Henry Hardwicke
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Orators
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Author : Philipp Melanchthon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521586771
This volume, first published in 1999, presents a translated and wide-ranging selection of Melanchthon's influential academic orations.
Author : Gary Remer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 022643916X
Prologue: Quintilian and John of Salisbury in the Ciceronian tradition -- Rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and morality: the contemporary relevance of Cicero vis-a-vis Aristotle -- Political morality, conventional morality, and decorum in Cicero -- Rhetoric as a balancing of ends: Cicero and Machiavelli -- Justus Lipsius, morally acceptable deceit, and prudence in the Ciceronian tradition -- The classical orator as political representative: Cicero and the modern concept of representation -- Deliberative democracy and rhetoric: Cicero, oratory, and conversation
Author : Mark P. O. Morford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415188512
Mark Morford provides a lively, succinct and comprehensive survey of the philosophers of the Roman world, from Cato the Censor in 155 BCE to the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 CE.
Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 1878
Category :
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Author : Cicero
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 1875
Category :
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Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : Myrto Garani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0199328382
"Several decades of scholarship by now have demonstrated that Roman thinkers have developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer a range of perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. This collection of essays pursues a maximally inclusive approach, covering not only authors such as Augustine, but also poets or historians. It pays attention to the mode in which these works were written (giving rhetoric too its due) and their often conscious reflections on the process of translating, or transferring Greek ideas to Roman contexts"--
