Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521422949
The most accessible and comprehensive guide to Aristotle currently available.
Author : S. M. Connell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107197732
Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.
Author : Marguerite Deslauriers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107469821
One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, the central chapters follow the sequence of the eight books of the Politics, taking up questions such as the role of reason in legitimizing rule, the common good, justice, slavery, private property, citizenship, democracy and deliberation, unity, conflict, law and authority, and education. The closing chapters discuss the interaction between Aristotle's political thought and contemporary democratic theory. The volume will provide a valuable resource for those studying ancient philosophy, classics, and the history of political thought.
Author : Ronald Polansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521192765
This volume provides a systematic guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, a key text of ancient philosophy, and Western philosophy in general.
Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521436106
Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1118610636
The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle provides in-depth studies of the main themes of Aristotle's thought, from art to zoology. The most comprehensive single volume survey of the life and work of Aristotle Comprised of 40 newly commissioned essays from leading experts Coves the full range of Aristotle's work, from his 'theoretical' inquiries into metaphysics, physics, psychology, and biology, to the practical and productive "sciences" such as ethics, politics, rhetoric, and art
Author : Donald R. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521833426
Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Author : Roger F. Gibson, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825801
W. V. Quine (1908–2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended from logical positivism. His most important book, Word and Object, introduced the concept of indeterminacy of radical translation, a bleak view of the nature of the language with which we ascribe thoughts and beliefs to ourselves and others. Quine is also famous for the view that epistemology should be naturalized, that is conducted in a scientific spirit with the object of investigating the relationship between the inputs of experience and the outputs of belief. The eleven essays in this volume cover all the central topics of Quine's philosophy: the underdetermination of physical theory, analycity, naturalism, propositional attitudes, behaviorism, reference and ontology, positivism, holism and logic.
Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521775038
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces the seminal influence of Greek and Roman philosophy down to the seventeenth century. Practical elements such as tables, illustrations, a glossary, and extensive advice on further reading make it an ideal book to accompany survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.
Author : Vere Chappell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1994-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139824961
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. The essays in this volume provide a systematic survey of Locke's philosophy informed by the most recent scholarship. They cover Locke's theory of ideas, his philosophies of body, mind, language, and religion, his theory of knowledge, his ethics, and his political philosophy. There are also chapters on Locke's life and subsequent influence. New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Locke currently available.
