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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of ten in the
International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient
Philosophy. Written around 1956, this book looks at Plato and his
works on the biological, social, physical and intellectual
background as well as his ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of
religion and education, in comparison to his predecessors.
First published in 2000. This is Volume VIII of ten in the
International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient
Philosophy. Written in 1947, it focuses on Plato's theory of
education and initially written for students of educational theory,
but also for teachers and for those who are interested in Plato as
a thinker who find in his writings a challenge to their powers of
thought which assists them to develop a philosophy of their own.
First published in 2000. This is Volume X of ten in the
International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient
Philosophy. Written in 1931, this is the thirteenth edition of
outlines of the history of Greek philosophy. The author's aim was
to provide students with the contents of the different philosophic
systems and the course of their historical development which should
contain all essential features, and also to put into their hands
the more important literary references and sources.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. This is Volume VII of ten in the
International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient
Philosophy. Written around 1953, this book looks at Plato and his
ideas on art based on his 'Dialogues'.
Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now
available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of
literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the
emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts,
gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this
revised and expanded edition of GREEK RHETORIC BEFORE ARISTOTLE.
This new evidence, along with recent developments in research
methods and analysis, reveal clearly that long before Aristotle's
Rhetoric, long before rhetoric was even stabilized into formal
systems of study in Classical Athens, nascent, pre-disciplinary
"rhetorics" were emerging throughout Greece. These newly acquired
resources and research procedures demonstrate that oral and
literate rhetoric emerged not only because of intellectual
developments and the refinement of technologies that facilitated
communication but also because of social, political and cultural
forces that nurtured rhetoric's growth and popularity throughout
the Hellenic world. GREEK RHETORIC BEFORE ARISTOTLE offers insights
into the mentalities forming and driving expression, revealing, in
turn, a great deal more about the relationship of thought and
expression in Antiquity. A more expansive understanding of these
pre-disciplinary manifestations of rhetoric, in all of their varied
forms, enriches the history and the nature of classical rhetoric as
a formalized discipline. - RICHARD LEO ENOS is Professor and holder
of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at Texas
Christian University. His research concentration is in classical
rhetoric with an emphasis in the relationship between oral and
written discourse. He is past president of the American Society for
the History of Rhetoric (1980-1981) and the Rhetoric Society of
America (1990-1991). He received the RSA George E. Yoos Award
Distinguished Service and was inducted as an RSA Fellow in 2006. He
is the founding editor of ADVANCES IN THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC and
the editor (with David E. Beard) of ADVANCES IN THE HISTORY OF
RHETORIC: THE FIRST SIX YEARS (2007, Parlor Press). He is also the
author of ROMAN RHETORIC: REVOLUTION AND THE GREEK INFLUENCE,
Revised and Expanded Edition (2008, Parlor Press). - LAUER SERIES
IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION, edited by Catherine Hobbs, Patricia
Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, and Jennifer Bay.
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specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
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specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
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specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
The works of Aristotle are central to the western philosophical
tradition, and scholarship on Aristotle, especially in English, has
burgeoned enormously since the 1950s. This text collects together
articles on Aristotle's philosophy otherwise scattered over many
philosophical, classical and historical scientific journals. The
set thus provides a resource for those approaching the literature
for the first time and for those already studying Aristotle in a
professional capacity. Aristotle has been so influential and
remains so in so many distinct areas that it is often the case
that, say, a reader is acquainted with the literature on
metaphysics or ethics but knows nothing about the literature on
psychology or the philosophy of biology. This set guides the
researcher, teacher, or student through the issues of major concern
in contemporary Aristotelian scholarship in the English-speaking
world. The articles are arranged as follows: Volume I covers logic
and metaphysics; Volume II covers physics, cosmology, biology;
Volume III covers psychology and ethics; and Volume IV covers
politics, rhetoric and aesthetics.
This book is available either individually, or as part of the
specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
The final volume to be published in the acclaimed Routledge History of Philosophy series provides an authoritative and comprehensive survey and analysis of the key areas of late Greek and early Christian Philosophy. eBook available with sample pages: 0203028457
Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of
Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be
descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies
also say a great deal more. Indeed, the majority of cosmologies,
ancient and modern, explore not simply how the world was made but
how humans relate to their surrounding environment and the often
thin line which separates humans from gods and animals. Combining
approaches from classical studies, anthropology, and philosophy,
this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek
world: Hesiod's Theogony; the Orphic Derveni theogony; and
Protagoras' creation myth in Plato's eponymous dialogue. Although
all three cosmologies are part of a single mythic tradition and
feature a number of similar events and characters, Olaf Almqvist
argues they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on
what it is to be human. Engaging closely with the ontological turn
in anthropology and in particular with the work of Philippe
Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological
assumptions - analogism, pantheism, and naturalism - found in early
Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological
assumptions result in contrasting attitudes to rituals such as
prayer and sacrifice.
The philosophy of Plato, universally acknowledged as the most
important thinker of the Ancient World, is a major focus of
contemporary attention - not only among philosophers, but also
classicists and literary and political theorists. This set selects
the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship
published in English over the last fifty years, and adds
translations of outstanding works published in other languages. It
represents radically different scholarly approaches, and
illuminates the key issues in the most hotly debated topics,
including Plato's theory of the Forms and Platonic Erotics. It is
especially concerned with the interpretations and major debates of
philosophers of the Anglo-American schools over the last three
decades.
Virtue ethics is perhaps the most important development within late
twentieth-century moral philosophy. Rosalind Hursthouse, who has
made notable contributions to this development, now presents a full
exposition and defence of her neo-Aristotelian version of virtue
ethics. She shows how virtue ethics can provide guidance for
action, illuminate moral dilemmas, and bring out the moral
significance of the emotions. Deliberately avoiding a combative
stance, she finds less disagreement between Kantian and
neo-Aristotelian approaches than is usual, and she offers the first
account from a virtue ethics perspective of acting 'from a sense of
duty'. She considers the question which character traits are
virtues, and explores how answers to this question can be justified
by appeal to facts about human nature. Written in a clear, engaging
style which makes it accessible to non-specialists, On Virtue
Ethics will appeal to anyone with an interest in moral philosophy.
This four volume set is a collection of some of the most
significant scholarship published on the philosophy of Socrates in
the last half century. The contributors include many of the most
prominent scholars in this field. As the growth in Socratic studies
in the past three decades is due in large part to the influential
work of Gregory Vlastos, articles by him figure prominently in the
collection, and works by other authors are generally related to his
work (as sources of it, responses to it, or further developments of
it). The volumes deal with different areas of Socratic thought. The
first volume begins with the question whether and to what degree we
can discern a distinctive philosophy of Socrates in the ancient
sources. The second volume deals with the trial of Socrates and the
philosophical issues that arise from it. The third volume considers
the philosophical methodology of Socrates and the fourth his moral
philosophy. This collection shares some material with earlier
collections on the philosophy of Socrates, but it is more extensive
and up-to-date. Unlike other collections, which may offer the
reader only a single article on a given topic, this collection
offers a conversation in-depth. The reader can thus get a sense of
the dimensions of the scholarly debate on these central issues in
the philosophy of Socrates. No collection can be complete, but this
aims at a representative portrait of Socratic studies in the last
fifty years.
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Laws
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"Plato's The Laws are just that - a vision of a complete legal
system for an Ancient Greek city. Three old men are on a religious
pilgrimage - an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan. As they travel,
it emerges that the Cretan has been given the duty to come up with
laws for a new colony, and the men spend the rest of their journey
devising and discussing these laws. Following from his utopian and
theoretical Republic, which laid out an ideal state, The Laws is a
more practical and viable version of Plato's political principles.
It is his conception of the day-to-day workings of a small city,
with attention to all aspects of life - religion, education,
commerce, recreation, and family.
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