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Giordano Bruno - His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (Hardcover): William Boulting Giordano Bruno - His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom (Hardcover)
William Boulting
R4,224 Discovery Miles 42 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century. This book follows Bruno's life and the development of his thought in the order in which he declared it. Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. He was burned at the stake after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy but his modern scientific thought and cosmology became very influential. His writings on science also showed interest in magic and alchemy and those are outlined in this book alongside what he is most remembered for - his place in the history of the relationship between science and faith.

Plato and Hegel (RLE: Plato) - Two Modes of Philosophizing about Politics (Hardcover): Gary Browning Plato and Hegel (RLE: Plato) - Two Modes of Philosophizing about Politics (Hardcover)
Gary Browning
R3,172 Discovery Miles 31 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the general disparities involved in their particular ways of seeking to fulfil these aspirations. Professor Browning compares the political thought of Plato and Hegel by locating their political theorizing within the context of their divergent modes of philosophizing.

Plato Today (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover): R. Crossman Plato Today (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover)
R. Crossman
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Plato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the modern world bother to read what he had to say? Does it make sense to go to a Greek thinker for advice on the problems of an age so different from his own? To anyone who has questioned the relevance of Plato to the modern world Richard Crossman's lively book provides a brilliant reply. The problems facing Plato's world bear striking parallels to ours today, the author maintains, so who better to turn to than Plato, the most objective and most ruthless observer of the failures of Greek society. Crossman's engaging text provides both an informed introduction to Greek ideas and an original and controversial view of Plato himself.

Plato's Use of Fallacy (RLE: Plato) - A Study of the Euthydemus and some Other Dialogues (Hardcover): Rosamond Sprague Plato's Use of Fallacy (RLE: Plato) - A Study of the Euthydemus and some Other Dialogues (Hardcover)
Rosamond Sprague
R3,170 Discovery Miles 31 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato. The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of at least an important number of these arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his fundamental philosophical views. Plato introduces them, the author maintains, for the purpose of working out their implications. Plato is thus able to expose them for what they are, to clear away possible lines of attack upon his own position, and even to show that when the proper correction is applied his own views receive support.

The Message of Plato (RLE: Plato) - A Re-Interpretation of the Republic (Hardcover): Edward Urwick The Message of Plato (RLE: Plato) - A Re-Interpretation of the Republic (Hardcover)
Edward Urwick
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Edward Urwick's original work draws upon Plato's best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato's teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to interpret the Republic from the standpoint of politics, ethics, and metaphysics and indeed the accepted title of the dialogue - Concerning a Polity or Republic - would seem to legitimate this. Even the alternative title for the work - Concerning Justice - seems to justify such an approach. Yet the original Greek work, Dikaiosune, had a fuller meaning: righteousness. The author believes this gives a truer clue to the meaning of the dialogue. It is a discussion of righteousness in all its forms, from the just dealing of the law-abiding citizen to the spirit of holiness in the saint.

Plato and the Individual (RLE: Plato) - Entrepreneurship and Organizational Change in the Human Services (Hardcover): David... Plato and the Individual (RLE: Plato) - Entrepreneurship and Organizational Change in the Human Services (Hardcover)
David Rankin
R3,175 Discovery Miles 31 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational selection, sex, the individual's contract with society, old age, death, and life after death - and provides an unprecedented analysis of Plato's theory of genetics as it appears in the Timaeus. Comparisons are made with contemporary developments in anthropology, sociology, and comparative myth but without losing sight of the fact that Plato, whilst having much to say to the modern world, was not a modern.

Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover): R. Allen Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover)
R. Allen
R4,245 Discovery Miles 42 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Did Plato abandon, or sharply modify, the Theory of Forms in later life? In the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic it is generally agreed that Plato held that universals exist. But in Parmenides, he subjected that theory to criticism. If the criticism were valid, and Plato knew so, then the Parmenides marks a turning point in his thought. If, however, Plato became aware that there are radical differences in the logical behaviour of concepts, and the later dialogues are a record of his attempt to analyse those differences, then Plato's thought can be said to have moved in a new and vitally important direction after the Parmenides. Studies in Plato's Metaphysics brings together twenty essays by leading philosophers from the UK and the USA reflecting upon this important issue and upon the questions arising from it.

Plato's Life and Thought (RLE: Plato) - With a Translation of the Seventh Letter (Hardcover): R Bluck Plato's Life and Thought (RLE: Plato) - With a Translation of the Seventh Letter (Hardcover)
R Bluck
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

R. S. Bluck's engaging volume provides an accessible introduction to the thought of Plato. In the first part of the book the author provides an account of the life of the philosopher, from Plato's early years, through to the Academy, the first visit to Dionysius and the third visit to Syracuse, and finishing with an account of his final years. In the second part contains a discussion of the main purpose and points of interest of each of Plato's works. There is a chapter on Plato's central doctrine, the Theory of Ideas, and a translation of Plato's Seventh Letter, which not only provides valuable additional material for the study of Plato's thought but also contains a vivid account of many incidents in Plato's life.

New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover): Renford Bambrough New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover)
Renford Bambrough
R3,473 Discovery Miles 34 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato's indictment of mathematicians.

Plato and Socrates (RLE: Plato) - A Comprehensive Bibliography 1958-1973. (Hardcover): Richard McKirahan Plato and Socrates (RLE: Plato) - A Comprehensive Bibliography 1958-1973. (Hardcover)
Richard McKirahan
R5,148 Discovery Miles 51 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This valuable work of reference provides a comprehensive bibliography on all scholarly work that was published on Plato and Socrates during the years 1958-73. It thus forms an important addition to Harold Cherniss's bibliography, which covered the years 1950-7. The author has sought to include all materials primarily concerned with Socrates and Plato, together with other works which make a contribution to our understanding of the two philosophers. The bibliography is arranged by topic and there are cross-references at the end of each section. The works in each category are arranged chronologically and then alphabetically (by author) within each year. An effort has been made to distinguish when a book has had more than one edition and when an article has been reprinted. Additionally the author has listed reviews of books and dissertations as these have come to his attention.

Unity and Development in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover): William Prior Unity and Development in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover)
William Prior
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Studies of Plato's metaphysics have tended to emphasise either the radical change between the early Theory of Forms and the late doctrines of the Timaeus and the Sophist, or to insist on a unity of approach that is unchanged throughout Plato's career. The author lays out an alternative approach. Focussing on two metaphysical doctrines of central importance to Plato's thought - the Theory of Forms and the doctrine of Being and Becoming - he suggests a continuous progress can be traced through Plato's works. He presents his argument through an examination of the metaphysical sections of six of the dialogues: the Euthyphro, Phaedo, Republic, Parmenides, Timaeus, and Sophist.

Plato: The Man and His Work (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover): A. Taylor Plato: The Man and His Work (RLE: Plato) (Hardcover)
A. Taylor
R5,140 Discovery Miles 51 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an introduction to Plato's work that gives a clear statement of what Plato has to say about the problems of thought and life. In particular, it tells the reader just what Plato says, and makes no attempt to force a system on the Platonic text or to trim Plato's works to suit contemporary philosophical tastes. The author also gives an account that has historical fidelity - we cannot really understand the Republic or the Gorgias if we forget that the Athens of the conversations is meant to be the Athens of Nicias or Cleon, not the very different Athens of Plato's own manhood. To understand Plato's thought we must see it in the right historical perspective.

Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato) - Timaeus and Critias (Hardcover): A. Taylor Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato) - Timaeus and Critias (Hardcover)
A. Taylor
R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Plato's Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people's general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias - the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato's words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.

Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato) - A Study of Callistic and Aesthetic Concepts in the Works of Plato and Aristotle... Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato) - A Study of Callistic and Aesthetic Concepts in the Works of Plato and Aristotle (Hardcover)
J. Warry
R3,178 Discovery Miles 31 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them, revealing many of their differences to be complementary aspects of an essentially similar viewpoint. He also shows how Greek notions of art and beauty are not merely primitive steps in the advance to modern ideas but have a direct relevance to modern critical controversies.

Plato and His Contemporaries (RLE: Plato) - A Study in Fourth Century Life and Thought (Hardcover): G. Field Plato and His Contemporaries (RLE: Plato) - A Study in Fourth Century Life and Thought (Hardcover)
G. Field
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book helps understand Plato's writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced. The author begins with an account of Plato's life and development and a brief analysis of some of the more difficult points arising from the criticism of Plato's writings. The remainder of the work considers the total setting - political, literary and philosophical - in which Plato's writings were produced. There are extensive appendices on the Platonic Epistles, Aristotle and the Theory of Ideas, and on the post-Aristotelian tradition. The result is both a lucid account of Plato himself and a comprehensive view of culture in fifth century Greece.

An Examination of Plato's Doctrines  (RLE: Plato) - Volume 1 Plato on Man and Society (Hardcover): I. Crombie An Examination of Plato's Doctrines (RLE: Plato) - Volume 1 Plato on Man and Society (Hardcover)
I. Crombie
R4,384 Discovery Miles 43 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ian Crombie's impressive volumes provide a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's doctrines. Volume 1 contains topics of more general interest and is mainly concerned with what Plato has to say in the fields of moral philosophy, political philosophy, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion.

An Examination of Plato's Doctrines Vol 2 (RLE: Plato) - Volume 2 Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Hardcover): I. Crombie An Examination of Plato's Doctrines Vol 2 (RLE: Plato) - Volume 2 Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Hardcover)
I. Crombie
R5,143 Discovery Miles 51 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ian Crombie's impressive volumes provide a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's doctrines. Volume 2 deals with more technical philosophical topics, including the theory of knowledge, philosophy of nature, and the methodology of science and philosophy. Each volume is self-contained.

Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato) - The Midwife's Apprentice (Hardcover): I. Crombie Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato) - The Midwife's Apprentice (Hardcover)
I. Crombie
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife's apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manageable account of the author's two volume magnum opus, An Examination of Plato's Doctrines. An accessible and lucid introduction to Plato's ideas is provided which nonetheless challenges traditional interpretations. In particular the author is concerned to offer an interpretation of the significance of what Plato said. The chapters are arranged by topic, for ease of comprehension.

Remembering Boethius - Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures (Hardcover, New Ed):... Remembering Boethius - Writing Aristocratic Identity in Late Medieval French and English Literatures (Hardcover, New Ed)
Elizabeth Elliott
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius and the literary construction of aristocratic identity, focusing on a body of late-medieval vernacular literature that draws on the Consolation of Philosophy to represent and reimagine contemporary experiences of exile and imprisonment. Elizabeth Elliott presents new interpretations of English, French, and Scottish texts, including Machaut's Confort d'ami, Remede de Fortune, and Fonteinne amoureuse, Jean Froissart's Prison amoureuse, Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, and The Kingis Quair, reading these texts as sources contributing to the development of the reader's moral character. These writers evoke Boethius in order to articulate and shape personal identities for public consumption, and Elliott's careful examination demonstrates that these texts often write not one life, but two, depicting the relationship between poet and aristocratic patron. These works associate the reception of wisdom with the cultivation of memory, and in turn, illuminate the contemporary reception of the Consolation as a text that itself focuses on memory and describes a visionary process of education that takes place within Boethius's own mind. In asking how and why writers remember Boethius in the Middle Ages, this book sheds new light on how medieval people imagined, and reimagined, themselves.

The Use of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - Californian Addresses (Hardcover): John Muirhead The Use of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - Californian Addresses (Hardcover)
John Muirhead
R4,355 Discovery Miles 43 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1928, this book reproduces the lectures and addresses that John Henry Muirhead gave on various occasions during the two and a half years he spent as Lecturer of Philosophy on the Mills Foundation at the University of California, USA. The different chapters look at the meaning and general place of Philosophy as a subject of study and the application of its leading conceptions to different areas of modern life, including science and politics. The final chapters however, present two short talks of a different nature, which were addressed to Scottish countrymen, gathered on foreign shores. This book outlines Muirhead's philosophical thoughts and conclusions to which he devoted his life.

A History of Ancient Philosophy - From the Beginning to Augustine (Paperback): Henrik Rosenmeier A History of Ancient Philosophy - From the Beginning to Augustine (Paperback)
Henrik Rosenmeier; Karsten Friis Johansen
R1,597 Discovery Miles 15 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements: *Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides *The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates *Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus *Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics *Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero *Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine. This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains: *full references to primary sources *detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings *an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought *discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas *analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics *explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.

Science and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - And Other Essays (Hardcover): Bernard Bosanquet Science and Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - And Other Essays (Hardcover)
Bernard Bosanquet
R5,415 Discovery Miles 54 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1927, Science and Philosophy: And Other Essays is a collection of individual papers written by Bernard Bosanquet during his highly industrious philosophical life. The collection was put together by Bosanquet's wife after the death of the writer and remains mostly unaltered with just a few papers added and the order of entries improved. The papers here displayed consist of various contributions Bosanquet made to Mind, the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, the International Journal of Ethics and other periodicals, as well as work from volumes of lectures and essays under his own or other editorship. Throughout the collection, Bosanquet considers the relationship between science and philosophy. The two subject areas became increasingly intertwined during Bosanquet's lifetime as scientific writers grew more interested in the philosophical investigation of the concepts which underlined their work and philosophical thinkers recognised the importance of the relationship between mathematics and logic as well as that between physics and metaphysics. The first essay in this volume discusses this idea explicitly and all subsequent articles may be regarded as essays in support of the main discussion with which the volume opens.

John Henry Muirhead (Routledge Revivals) - Reflections (Hardcover): John Harvey John Henry Muirhead (Routledge Revivals) - Reflections (Hardcover)
John Harvey
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1942, Reflections documents the life of John Henry Muirhead and the philosophical age that he observed. The first part of the volume derives from Muirhead's own autobiographical narrative, left unfinished when he died in May 1940. The second part features two final chapters written by John W. Harvey that comprehensively record the final stages of Muirhead's life. Harvey's chapters incorporate Muirhead's unfinished final years of commentary and begin at the man's retirement from Birmingham Chair in 1921. As a student and teacher of philosophy, Muirhead's life ran almost precisely parallel to what he himself refers to as 'one of the most vivid and important movements in British and American philosophy'. He came into contact with some of the age's primary thinkers and as such, his own autobiography is important in providing an insight into his contemporary philosophical environment.

The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback): Aristotle The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
Aristotle
R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals - A Translation with Introductions and Commentary (Paperback): Stephen T. Newmyer Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals - A Translation with Introductions and Commentary (Paperback)
Stephen T. Newmyer
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume offers a new translation of Plutarch's three treatises on animals-On the Cleverness of Animals, Whether Beasts Are Rational, and On Eating Meat-accompanied by introductions and explanatory commentaries. The accompanying commentaries are designed not only to elucidate the meaning of the Greek text, but to call attention to Plutarch's striking anticipations of arguments central to current philosophical and ethological discourse in defense of the position that non-human animals have intellectual and emotional dimensions that make them worthy of inclusion in the moral universe of human beings. Plutarch's Three Treatises on Animals will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy and natural science, and to all readers who wish to explore the history of thought on human-non-human animal relations, in which the animal treatises of Plutarch hold a pivotal position.

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