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The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's
distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato,
Complete Works . A number of new or expanded footnotes are also
included along with an updated bibliography.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic
philosopher Seneca To give and receive well may be the most human
thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to
divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4
BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, "On
Benefits" (De Beneficiis). James Romm's splendid new translation of
essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Seneca's
argument that generosity and gratitude are among the most important
of all virtues. For Seneca, the impulse to give to others lies at
the very foundation of society; without it, we are helpless
creatures, worse than wild beasts. But generosity did not arise
randomly or by chance. Seneca sees it as part of our desire to
emulate the gods, whose creation of the earth and heavens stands as
the greatest gift of all. Seneca's soaring prose captures his
wonder at that gift, and expresses a profound sense of gratitude
that will inspire today's readers. Complete with an enlightening
introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, How to Give is
a timeless guide to the profound significance of true generosity.
The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in
English the world community of scholars systematically assembled
and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature
of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of
Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of
commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential
Danish philosopher and theologian. This is volume 13 in a series of
commentaries based upon the definitive translations of
Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press,
1980ff.
In a bold new argument, Ulrika Carlsson grasps hold of the figure
of Eros that haunts Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, and
for the first time, uses it as key to interpret that text and his
second book, Either/Or. According to Carlsson, Kierkegaard adopts
Plato's idea of Eros as the fundamental force that drives humans in
all their pursuits. For him, every existential stance-every way of
living and relating to the outside world-is at heart a way of
loving. By intensely examining Kierkegaard's erotic language, she
also challenges the theory that the philosopher's first two books
have little common ground and reveals that they are in fact
intimately connected by the central and explicit topic of love. In
this text suitable for both students and the Kierkegaard
specialist, Carlsson claims that despite long-held beliefs about
the disparity of his early work, his first two books both relate to
love and Part I of Either/Or should be treated as the sequel to The
Concept of Irony.
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the
diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black
explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while
reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the
controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish.
This approach operates a critical shift by examining
psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black
desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of
psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black
texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black
literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial
and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical
system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities. The
Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin,
Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and
Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves
African American Culture, Fanonian and Caribbean Thought, South
African Black Consciousness, French Theory, Psychoanalysis, and
Gender and Queer Studies.
Since the publication of Paul J. Olscamp's The Moral philosophy of
George Berkeley (1970), research has focused on Berkeley's theory
of immaterialism as the defining element of his thinking. New
readings of his work gathered in this volume position immaterialism
as a component of a much broader, overarching apologetic project,
which is highly pragmatic in nature. Through close examinations of
Berkeley's writings on key political, economic, social, moral and
ethical debates, leading experts demonstrate that his writings are
not simply theoretical but also bound to a practical concern with
the well-being of humanity. The volume opens with nuanced analyses
of Berkeley's utilitarianism, which contributors position more
precisely as a theological utilitarianism, a facet of natural law
and a theory with a distinctly pragmatic basis. This doctrine is
reconsidered in the context of Berkeley's moral philosophy, with
contributors highlighting the implications of free will for the
evaluation of personal (or divine) responsibility for one's
actions. Berkeley's concept of desire is reconfigured as a virtue,
when channelled towards the common good of society. Contributors
close by reassessing Berkeley's political and economic thought and
uncover its practical dimension, where individualism is sacrificed
for the greater, national interest. The George Berkeley to emerge
from this book is a philosopher deeply concerned with the
political, economic and social problems of his time, and whose
writings proposed practical and not simply theoretical solutions to
the challenges facing Britain in the eighteenth century.
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Walking
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Henry David Thoreau
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In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of
nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature,
physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending
more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a
self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away
from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find
other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society.
This new edition of Thoreau's classic work includes annotations and
a biographical essay.
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