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Post-Structuralist Classics (Paperback): Andrew Benjamin Post-Structuralist Classics (Paperback)
Andrew Benjamin
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy. This book will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy, classical studies and literary theory.

Philosophy of Nature - Rethinking naturalness (Paperback): Svein Anders Lie Philosophy of Nature - Rethinking naturalness (Paperback)
Svein Anders Lie
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies. This book is about naturalness in general - about why the idea of naturalness has been abandoned in modern academic discourse, why it is important to explicitly re-establish some meaning for the concept and what that meaning ought to be. Arguing that naturalness can and should be understood in light of a dispositional ontology, the book offers a point of view where the gap between instrumental and ethical perspectives can be bridged. Reaching a new foundation for the concept of 'naturalness' and its viability will help raise and inform further discussions within environmental philosophy and issues occurring in the crossroads between science, technology and society. This topical book will be of great interest to researchers and students in Environmental Studies, Environmental Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, Conservation Studies as well as all those generally engaged in debates about the place of 'man in nature'.

Friendship - The Future of an Ancient Gift (Paperback): Claudia Baracchi Friendship - The Future of an Ancient Gift (Paperback)
Claudia Baracchi; Translated by Elena Bartolini, Catherine Fullarton
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Friendship, Italian philosopher Claudia Baracchi explores the philosophical underpinnings of friendship. Tackling the issue of friendship in the era of Facebook and online social networks requires courage and even a certain impertinence. The friendship relationship involves trust, fidelity, and availability for profound sharing. Sociologists assure us this attitude was never more improbable than in our time of dramatic anthropological reconfiguration. Research on friendship cannot therefore ignore ancient thought: with unparalleled depth, Friendship examines the broader implications of relationship, both emotional and political. Today, the grand socio-political structures of the world are trembling. The hold of valued paradigms that traditionally positioned individuals, determined their destinies, and assigned them their roles and reciprocal responsibilities is becoming uncertain. In these many global shifts, previously unforeseen possibilities for individual and collective becoming are unleashed. Perhaps friendship has to do with worlds that are not: that are not yet, and that should be desired all the more. Focusing on the works of Aristotle, Baracchi explores ancient reflections on friendship, in the belief that they have much to teach us about our relationships in the present day.

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Hardcover): William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, Nicholas J. Teh Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Hardcover)
William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, Nicholas J. Teh
R4,213 Discovery Miles 42 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the ontological status and indispensability of dispositions and powers in science. Despite these recent trends, few Aristotelian metaphysicians have engaged directly with the philosophy of the specialised sciences. Additionally, the relationship between fundamental Aristotelian concepts-such as "hylomorphism", "substance", and "faculties"-and contemporary science has yet to receive a critical and systematic treatment. Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science aims to fill this gap in the literature by bringing together essays on the relationship between Aristotelianism and science that cut across interdisciplinary boundaries. The chapters in this volume are divided into two main sections covering the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of the life sciences. Featuring original contributions from distinguished and early-career scholars, this book will be of interest to specialists in analytical metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

Plato's Labyrinth - Sophistries, Lies and Conspiracies in Socratic Dialogues (Hardcover): Aakash Singh Rathore Plato's Labyrinth - Sophistries, Lies and Conspiracies in Socratic Dialogues (Hardcover)
Aakash Singh Rathore
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form. Taking inspiration from the techniques of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss, Aakash Singh Rathore presents the Socratic dialogues as labyrinthine texts replete with sophistries and lies that mask behind them important philosophical and political conspiracies. Plato's Labyrinth argues that these conspiracies and intrigues are of manifold kinds - in some, Plato is masterminding the conspiracy; in others, Socrates, or the Sophists, are the victims of the conspiracies. With supplementary forays ('intermissions') into the world of Xenophon and the Sophists, the complex and evolving series of overlapping arguments that the book lays out unfold within an edgy and dramatic narrative. Presenting innovative readings of major texts - Plato's Parmenides, Republic, Symposium and Meno as also Homer's Odyssey - this work is an ambitious attempt to synthesize philological, political, historical and philosophical research into a classical text-centred study that is at once of urgent contemporary relevance. This book aims to revitalize the study of ancient Greek thought in all its diverse disciplinary richness and will interest students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, especially those in philosophy, Greek and classical studies, language and literature, politics, media and culture studies, theatre and performance studies, and history.

Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus (Hardcover): Rachel Barney Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus (Hardcover)
Rachel Barney
R4,132 Discovery Miles 41 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days


Contents:
Preface Introduction: The Argument of the Cratylus 1. From Convention to Nature 1.1 Conventionalism 1.2 Subjectivism 1.3. The Significance of Conventionalism 1.4. Against Conventionalism 1.5 The First Stage of Naturalism: Names as Tools 2. The Second Stage of Naturalism: Function and Genre in the Etymologies 2.1 Rational Reconstruction 2.2 The Inspiration of Episode 2.3 The Agonistic Display 2.4 The Etymologies as Agon 2.5 Polato and Parmendis on the Deceptiveness of Language 3. The Third Stage of Naturalism: Mimetic Correctness 3.1 Beyond Etymology 3.2 Mimesis and the Elements of Language 3.3 Draft and the Foundations of Correctness 4. Natureal Correctness Re-examined 4.1 The dianome Argument 4.2 On the Correctness of Images 4.3 The Two Cratyluses 4.4 The Sklerotes Argument 4.5 The Names of the Numbers 4.6 Conclusions About Correctness 5. The Name of Things 5.1 Against the Study of Names 5.2 Language, Knowledge and Flux 6. The Cratylus and After: Names and Logoi 6.1 The Seventh Letter and the Weakness of Language 6.2. Logos and Knowledge 7. The Cratylus and After: false Statement 7.1 False Statement in the Cratylus 7.2 The Sophist on Syntax 7.3 The Sophist on False Statement Bibliography Index

The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece (Hardcover): Maria Michela Sassi The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece (Hardcover)
Maria Michela Sassi; Translated by Michele Asuni
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first time How can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "Presocratics" to provide a richer understanding of the roots of what used to be called "the Greek miracle." The beginnings of the long process leading to philosophy were characterized by intellectual diversity and geographic polycentrism. In the sixth and fifth centuries BC, between the Asian shores of Ionia and the Greek city-states of southern Italy, thinkers started to reflect on the cosmic order, elaborate doctrines on the soul, write in solemn Homeric meter, or, later, abandon poetry for an assertive prose. And yet the Presocratics, whether the Milesian natural thinkers, the rhapsode Xenophanes, the mathematician and "shaman" Pythagoras, the naturalist and seer Empedocles, the oracular Heraclitus, or the inspired Parmenides, all shared an approach to critical thinking that, by questioning traditional viewpoints, revolutionized knowledge. A unique study that explores the full range of early Greek thinkers in the context of their worlds, the book also features a new introduction to the English edition in which the author discusses the latest scholarship on the subject.

Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy - Metaphysics and the Play of Violence (Paperback): Daniel Tompsett Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy - Metaphysics and the Play of Violence (Paperback)
Daniel Tompsett
R1,362 Discovery Miles 13 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens' poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period, assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressively taken on the existential burden of our post-theological age. Tompsett argues that Stevens' poetry attempts to 'play' its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his 'reduction of metaphysics' is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of the language and form of Stevens' poems, Tompsett uncovers the mythology his poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a 'reduction of metaphysics.'

Peirce on Perception and Reasoning - From Icons to Logic (Hardcover): Kathleen A Hull, Richard Kenneth Atkins Peirce on Perception and Reasoning - From Icons to Logic (Hardcover)
Kathleen A Hull, Richard Kenneth Atkins
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist. In this book, scholars from around the world examine the nature and significance of Peirce's work on perception, iconicity, and diagrammatic thinking. Abjuring any strict dichotomy between presentational and representational mental activity, Peirce's theories transform the Aristotelian, Humean, and Kantian paradigms that continue to hold sway today and, in so doing, forge a new path for understanding the centrality of visual thinking in science, education, art, and communication. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of issues related to Peirce's theories, including the perception of generality; the legacy of ideas being copies of impressions; imagination and its contribution to knowledge; logical graphs, diagrams, and the question of whether their iconicity distinguishes them from other sorts of symbolic notation; how images and diagrams contribute to scientific discovery and make it possible to perceive formal relations; and the importance and danger of using diagrams to convey scientific ideas. This book is a key resource for scholars interested in Perice's philosophy and its relation to contemporary issues in mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, semiotics, logic, visual thinking, and cognitive science.

Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic - Order, Negation and Abstraction (Paperback): John N. Martin Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic - Order, Negation and Abstraction (Paperback)
John N. Martin
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium 200 A.D. to 1200 A.D. just confused mystics? This book shows otherwise. John Martin rehabilitates Neoplatonism, founded by Plotinus and brought into Christianity by St. Augustine. The Neoplatonists devise ranking predicates like good, excellent, perfect to divide the Chain of Being, and use the predicate intensifier hyper so that it becomes a valid logical argument to reason from God is not (merely) good to God is hyper-good. In this way the relational facts underlying reality find expression in Aristotle's subject-predicate statements, and the Platonic tradition proves able to subsume Aristotle's logic while at the same time rejecting his metaphysics. In the Middle Ages when Aristotle's larger philosophy was recovered and joined again to the Neoplatonic tradition which was never lost, Neoplatonic logic lived along side Aristotle's metaphysics in a sometime confusing and unsettled way. Showing Neoplatonism to be significantly richer in its logical and philosophical ideas than it is usually given credit for, this book will be of interest not just to historians of logic, but to philosophers, logicians, linguists, and theologians.

Plato's Dialectic on Woman - Equal, Therefore Inferior (Paperback): Elena Blair Plato's Dialectic on Woman - Equal, Therefore Inferior (Paperback)
Elena Blair
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato's dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting the view of texts written more than two thousand years in the past. And yet, in spite of the recent surge of interest on woman in Plato, no comprehensive work identifying his position on the subject has yet appeared. This book considers not only the totality of Plato's texts on woman and the feminine, but also their place within both his philosophy and the historical context in which it developed. But this book is not merely a textual study situating the subject of woman philosophically and historically; it also uncovers the implications hidden in the texts and the relationships that follow from them. It draws an image of the Platonic woman as rich and full as the textual and historical information allows, offering new and sometimes unexpected results beyond the topic of woman, illuminating aspects of Plato's work that are of relevance to Platonic studies in general.

Economics, Ethics, and Ancient Thought - Towards a virtuous public policy (Hardcover): Donald G. Richards Economics, Ethics, and Ancient Thought - Towards a virtuous public policy (Hardcover)
Donald G. Richards
R4,353 Discovery Miles 43 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is argued that the normative and ethical presuppositions of standard economics render the discipline incapable of addressing an important class of problems involving human choices. Economics adopts too thin an account both of human motivation and of "the good" for individuals and for society. It is recommended that economists and policy-makers look back to ancient philosophy for guidance on the good life and good society considered in terms of eudaimonism, or human flourishing. Economics, Ethics, and Ancient Thought begins by outlining the limitations of the normative and ethical presuppositions that underpin standard economic theory, before going on to suggest alternative normative and ethical traditions that can supplement or replace those associated with standard economic thinking. In particular, this book considers the ethical thought of ancient thinkers, particularly the ancient Greeks and their concept of eudaimonia, arguing that within those traditions better alternatives can be found to the rational choice utilitarianism characteristic of modern economic theory and policy. This volume is of great interest to those who study economic theory and philosophy, history of economic thought and philosophy of social science, as well as public policy professionals.

Routledge Library Editions: Idealism - 4 Volume Set (Hardcover): Various Authors Routledge Library Editions: Idealism - 4 Volume Set (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R11,885 Discovery Miles 118 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spanning the twentieth century, this 4-volume set contains titles originally published between 1935 and 1990. The volumes explore the concept of Idealism from its roots in the theories of Plato, discussing many other philosophers and their perspectives, as views have developed through the centuries, to more modern interpretations.

The Tragedy of Reason - Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos (Hardcover): David Roochnik The Tragedy of Reason - Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos (Hardcover)
David Roochnik
R3,040 Discovery Miles 30 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. Its enemies range from Descartes, who complains that logos is not sufficiently useful or precise, to Derrida who hopes to liberate Western thought from its bondage to "logocentrism." At least since the time of Nietzsche, Plato has been damned as the chief architect of the classical conception of logos. He is accused of overvaluing reason and thereby devaluing the other, more human aspects of life. As it was originally formulated in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, Plato has been taken to be the arch-enemy of tragedy, which for Nietzsche was the most life-affirming of all the art forms of Greek culture. Originally published in 1990, The Tragedy of Reason defends Plato against his accusers. Employing a mode of exposition which exhibits Plato's position, Roochnik presents the Platonic conception of logos in confrontation with texts by Homer, Hesiod, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Descartes, Porty, and Derrida. In clear language, unencumbered by technical terminology, Roochnik shows that Platonic conception of logos is keenly aware of the strength of its opponents. The result is a presentation of Plato as a "tragic philosopher" whose conception of logos is characterized by an affirmation of its own limits as well as its goodness.

Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover): Nesca A. Robb Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover)
Nesca A. Robb
R3,470 Discovery Miles 34 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1935, the aim of this title is first to give a clear outline of Florentine Neoplatonism, and then to consider its influence on art and literature during a period that extends roughly from the age of Lorenzo de' Medici to the middle of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of the Counter-Reformation. No rigid divisions of time have been fixed, but with few exceptions the works discussed may be placed between these bounds. Even within these limits it would require a work of greater dimensions that the present to exhaust so large a subject in all its bearings. The leaven of Neoplatonism had penetrated the thought of the age in many directions; this study is confined to such of its manifestations as were, in a somewhat narrow sense, artistic and literary and to the use and abuse of philosophical ideas for aesthetic purposes.

How to Grow Old - Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (Hardcover): Marcus Tullius Cicero How to Grow Old - Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (Hardcover)
Marcus Tullius Cicero; Translated by Philip Freeman; Introduction by Philip Freeman
R469 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R91 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all--and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was. Filled with timeless wisdom and practical guidance, Cicero's brief, charming classic--written in 44 BC and originally titled On Old Age--has delighted and inspired readers, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, for more than two thousand years. Presented here in a lively new translation with an informative new introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, the book directly addresses the greatest fears of growing older and persuasively argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated--or altogether mistaken. Montaigne said Cicero's book "gives one an appetite for growing old." The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years. And today its lessons are more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with the futile pursuit of youth.

Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Hardcover): Mark T. Conard Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Hardcover)
Mark T. Conard
R4,353 Discovery Miles 43 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. With ideas such as the overman, will to power, the eternal recurrence, and perspectivism, Nietzsche challenges us to reconceive how it is that we know and understand the world, and what it means to be a human being. Further, in his works, he not only grapples with previous great philosophers and their ideas, but he also calls into question and redefines what it means to do philosophy. Nietzsche and the Philosophers for the first time sets out to examine explicitly Nietzsche's relationship to his most important predecessors. This anthology includes essays by many of the leading Nietzsche scholars, including Keith Ansell-Pearson, Daniel Conway, Tracy B. Strong, Gary Shapiro, Babette Babich, Mark Anderson, and Paul S. Loeb. These excellent writers discuss Nietzsche's engagement with such figures as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Socrates, Hume, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Rousseau, and the Buddha. Anyone interested in Nietzsche or the history of philosophy generally will find much of great interest in this volume.

Virtue and Knowledge - An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics (Hardcover): William J. Prior Virtue and Knowledge - An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics (Hardcover)
William J. Prior
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.

Moral Values in the Ancient World (Hardcover): John Ferguson Moral Values in the Ancient World (Hardcover)
John Ferguson
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies the pilgrimage of the Ancient World in its search for moral truth. After a brief examination of the values which dominated Homeric society and the subsequent aristocracies, the central portion of the book is an account and analysis of the moral ideas which illuminated the Greek, Roman and Hebrew worlds during the classical period. The volume discusses the cardinal virtues, the place of friendship, Plato's love, philanthropia and the moral insights of the Jewish prophets and subsequently examines Christian love.

The Greek Philosophers - From Thales to Aristotle (Hardcover): W.K.C. Guthrie The Greek Philosophers - From Thales to Aristotle (Hardcover)
W.K.C. Guthrie; Foreword by James Warren
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and to describe the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking and outlook on the world. Thus The Greek Philosophers provides excellent background material for the general reader - as well as providing a firm basis for specialist studies.

Selected Philosophical Papers by Ludwig Edelstein (Hardcover): Leonardo Taran Selected Philosophical Papers by Ludwig Edelstein (Hardcover)
Leonardo Taran
R5,096 R3,483 Discovery Miles 34 830 Save R1,613 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ludwig Edelstein (1902-1965) is well-known for his work on the history of anceint medicine and ancient philosophy, and to both of these areas he made contributions of primary importance. This collection, originally published in 1987, makes avaialable Edelstein's main papers to scholars and students, and includes papers from 1931-1965.

Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Hardcover): Nicholas Denyer Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Hardcover)
Nicholas Denyer
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, originally published in 1991, sets forth the assumptions about thought and language that made falsehood seem so problematic to Plato and his contemporaries, and expounds the solution that Plato finally reached in the Sophist. Free from untranslated Greek, the book is accessible to all studying ancient Greek philosophy. As a well-documented case study of a definitive advance in logic, metaphysics and epistemology, the book will also appeal to philosophers generally.

Post-Structuralist Classics (Hardcover): Andrew Benjamin Post-Structuralist Classics (Hardcover)
Andrew Benjamin
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy. This book will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy, classical studies and literary theory.

The Sceptics (Hardcover): R.J. Hankinson The Sceptics (Hardcover)
R.J. Hankinson
R3,940 Discovery Miles 39 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Sceptics is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus. Tracing the evolution of scepticism from 500 B.C to A.D 200, this clear and rigorous analysis presents the arguments of the Greek sceptics in their historical context and provides an in-depth study of the various strands of the sceptical tradition.

Forms, Souls, and Embryos - Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (Hardcover): James Wilberding Forms, Souls, and Embryos - Neoplatonists on Human Reproduction (Hardcover)
James Wilberding
R4,347 Discovery Miles 43 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo's formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? In what sense is a fetus 'alive,' and when does it become a human being? Where does the embryo's soul come from, and how is it connected to its body? This is the first full-length study in English of this fascinating subject, and is a must-read for anyone interested in Neoplatonism or the history of medicine and embryology.

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