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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics… Despite dating from the 4th
century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as
the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As
democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and
debate became an increasingly important tool to garner influence in
the assemblies, councils, and law courts of ancient Greece. In
response to this, both politicians and ordinary citizens became
desperate to learn greater skills in this area, as well as the
philosophy behind it. This treatise was one of the first to provide
just that, establishing methods and observations of informal
reasoning and style, and has continued to be hugely influential on
public speaking and philosophy today. Aristotle, the grandfather of
philosophy, student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great,
was one of the first people to create a comprehensive system of
philosophy, encompassing logic, morality, aesthetics, politics,
ethics, and science. Although written over 2,000 years ago, The Art
of Rhetoric remains a comprehensive introduction for philosophy
students into the subject of rhetoric, as well as a useful manual
for anyone today looking to improve their oratory skills of
persuasion.
Aristotle’s essential guide to human flourishing—the
Nicomachean Ethics—in a lively new abridged translation
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to
human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left
many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully abridged
version of the entire work in a highly readable and colloquial new
translation by Susan Sauvé Meyer that makes Aristotle’s timeless
insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible
than ever before. For Aristotle, flourishing involves becoming a
good person through practice, and having a life of the mind. To
that end, he draws vivid portraits of virtuous and vicious
characters and offers sound practical advice about everything from
eating and drinking to managing money, controlling anger, getting
along with others, and telling jokes. He also distinguishes
different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and
offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the
universe and our relation to the divine. Omitting Aristotle’s
digressions and repetitions and overly technical passages, How to
Flourish provides connecting commentary that allows readers to
follow the continuous line of his thought; it also features the
original Greek on facing pages. The result is an inviting and
lively version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead
a good life.
In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of
Antiquity, 'Physics' roughly translates as 'the order of nature',
covering what we would now differentiate as philosophy, science,
politics, humanities and religion. One of Aristotle's great works,
of which we here present an abridged edition, The Physics is an
investigation into the nature of being, of the world and its place
in the universe. Although philosophically much broader, it provides
the foundation for the later work of Galileo and Isaac Newton, and
prefigures Albert Einstein's breakthrough theories on time, space
and the motion of stars. The FLAME TREE Foundations series features
core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape
of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into
pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.
For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has
shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of
persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what
rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative,
judicial, and epideictic), the three rhetorical modes of
persuasion, and the diction, style, and necessary parts of a
successful speech. Throughout, Aristotle defends rhetoric as an art
and a crucial tool for deliberative politics while also recognizing
its capacity to be misused by unscrupulous politicians to mislead
or illegitimately persuade others. Here Robert C. Bartlett offers a
literal, yet easily readable, new translation of Aristotle's "Art
of Rhetoric," one that takes into account important alternatives in
the manuscript and is fully annotated to explain historical,
literary, and other allusions. Bartlett's translation is also
accompanied by an outline of the argument of each book; copious
indexes, including subjects, proper names, and literary citations;
a glossary of key terms; and a substantial interpretive essay.
An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's
complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of
writing and understanding stories Aristotle's Poetics is the most
important book ever written for writers and readers of
stories-whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or
nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot,
character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of
other critical points of good storytelling. Despite being written
more than 2,000 years ago, the Poetics remains essential reading
for anyone who wants to learn how to write a captivating story-or
understand how such stories work and achieve their psychological
effects. Yet for all its influence, the Poetics is too little read
because it comes down to us in a form that is often difficult to
follow, and even the best translations are geared more to
specialists than to general readers who simply want to grasp
Aristotle's profound and practical insights. In How to Tell a
Story, Philip Freeman presents the most readable translation of the
Poetics yet produced, making this indispensable handbook more
accessible, engaging, and useful than ever before. In addition to
its inviting and reliable translation, a commentary on each
section, and the original Greek on facing pages, this edition of
the Poetics features unique bullet points, chapter headings, and
section numbers to help guide readers through Aristotle's unmatched
introduction to the art of writing and reading stories.
This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist
"minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing
as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of
society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM
conferences (1929-31), addressing their engagement with the
"minimum dwelling" and revealing them both as milestones in the
organisation's annals and as seminal moments in the history of
interwar modernism. In 1929, an eclectic international group of
avant-garde modernist architects, including Ernst May, Mart Stam,
Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, met in Frankfurt for the second
instalment of the CIAM conferences. They discussed a design
programme for cost-effective, good-quality housing, seeking new
approaches and processes to maximize quality and functionality
while ensuring affordability for the wider population. In exploring
the meaning and form of the 'minimum dwelling', they also
re-defined dwelling as the hub of a new way of living, proposing a
revolutionary multi-scalar approach to urban design based on the
concept of the Existenzminimum (‘optimally minimal housing’).
Despite the two conferences falling short of the organizer’s
expectations, and being overshadowed by later instalments, the
participating architects sanctioned a semantic shift from minimum
as bare necessity to a very different, aspirational, kind of
minimalism – transforming the entire conversation on mass
low-cost dwelling in design, social and ethical terms. Split into
two parts, The Minimum Dwelling Revisited first takes a
genealogical approach to explore the provenance of the concept of
"minimum dwelling" prior to the 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences, it
then traces the proceedings of the two conferences themselves.
Addressing the origins of the "minimum dwelling" concept but also
its legacies, and serving as a corrective to the overemphasis on
4th CIAM conference and the Athens Charter, the book is essential
reading for scholars researching urban design during the Interwar
period.
The Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian
Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars
over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows
how the Russian Orthodox Church in the past thirty years first
acquired knowledge about the dynamics, issues, and strategies of
Right- Wing Christian groups; how the Moscow Patriarchate has
shaped its traditionalist agenda accordingly; and how the close
alliance between church and state has turned Russia into a norm
entrepreneur for international moral conservativism. Including
detailed case studies of the World Congress of Families,
anti-abortion activism, and the global homeschooling movement, the
book identifies the key factors, causes, and actors of this
process. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner then develop the
concept of conservative aggiornamento to describe Russian
traditionalism as the result of conservative religious
modernization and the globalization of Christian social
conservatism. The Moralist International continues a line of
research on the globalization of the culture wars that challenges
the widespread perception that it is only progressive actors who
use the international human rights regime to achieve their goals by
demonstrating that conservative actors do the same. The book offers
a new, original perspective that firmly embeds the conservative
turn of post-Soviet Russia in the transnational dynamics of the
global culture wars. The Moralist International is available from
the publisher on an open-access basis.
The Physics is a foundational work of western philosophy, and the
crucial one for understanding Aristotle's views on matter, form,
essence, causation, movement, space, and time. This richly
annotated, scrupulously accurate, and consistent translation makes
it available to a contemporary English reader as no other does-in
part because it fits together seamlessly with other closely
associated works in the New Hackett Aristotle series, such as the
Metaphysics , De Anima , and forthcoming De Caelo and On Coming to
Be and Passing Away . Eventually the series will include all of
Aristotle's works. Sequentially numbered endnotes provide the
information most needed at each juncture, while a detailed Index of
Terms indicates places where focused discussion of key notions
occurs. An illuminating general Introduction describes the book
that lies ahead, explaining what sort of work it is and what sorts
of evidence it relies on.
This new translation of Aristotle's Politics is a model of accuracy
and consistency and fits seamlessly with the translator's
Nicomachean Ethics , allowing the two to be read together, as
Aristotle intended. Sequentially numbered endnotes provide the
information most needed at each juncture, while a detailed Index of
Terms indicates places where focused discussion of key notions
occurs. A general Introduction prepares the reader for the work
that lies ahead, explaining what sort of work it is and what sort
of evidence it relies on.
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Poetics (Paperback, Critical edition)
Aristotle; Edited by David Gorman, Michelle Zerba; Translated by James Hutton
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This edition includes a preface, introduction and appendix.
"Ancient Sources" gives readers the opportunity to consider the
epic, dramatic, philosophical and rhetorical texts that influenced
the Poetics. Modern interpretations speak to the enduring relevance
of this ancient creation.
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Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality (Paperback)
Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou; Foreword by Metropolitan Ambrosius Helsinki; Contributions by Thomas Arentzen, …
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Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past
decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among
Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and
the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ
radically from those of other Christian denominations that have
already developed robust and creative reflections on sexuality and
sexual diversity. Within its unique history, theology, and
tradition, Orthodox Christianity holds rich resources for engaging
challenging questions of sexuality in new and responsive ways. What
is at stake in questions of sexuality in the Orthodox tradition?
What sources and theological convictions can uniquely shape
Orthodox understandings of sexuality? This volume aims to create an
agora for discussing sex, and not least the sexualities that are
often thought of as untraditional in Orthodox contexts. Through
fifteen distinct chapters, written by leading scholars and
theologians, this book offers a developed treatment of sexuality in
the Orthodox Christian world by approaching the subject from
scriptural, patristic, theological, historical, and sociological
perspectives. Chapters devoted to practical and pastoral insights,
as well as reflections on specific cultural contexts, engage the
human realities of sexual diversity and Christian life. From
re-thinking scripture to developing theologies of sex, from
eschatological views of eros to re-evaluations of the Orthodox
responses to science, this book offers new thinking on pressing,
present-day issues and initiates conversations about homosexuality
and sexual diversity within Orthodox Christianity.
What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking
from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient
Greeks When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are
still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE,
they changed the world with astonishing inventions-democracy, the
alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational
medicine, coins, architectural canons, drama, lifelike sculpture,
and competitive athletics. None of this happened by accident.
Recognizing the power of the new and trying to understand and
promote the conditions that make it possible, the Greeks were the
first to write about innovation and even the first to record a word
for forging something new. In short, the Greeks "invented"
innovation itself-and they still have a great deal to teach us
about it. How to Innovate is an engaging and entertaining
introduction to key ideas about-and examples of-innovation and
creative thinking from ancient Greece. Armand D'Angour provides
lively new translations of selections from Aristotle, Diodorus, and
Athenaeus, with the original Greek text on facing pages. These
writings illuminate and illustrate timeless principles of creating
something new-borrowing or adapting existing ideas or things,
cross-fertilizing disparate elements, or criticizing and disrupting
current conditions. From the true story of Archimedes's famous
"Eureka!" moment, to Aristotle's thoughts on physical change and
political innovation, to accounts of how disruption and competition
drove invention in Greek warfare and the visual arts, How to
Innovate is filled with valuable insights about how change
happens-and how to bring it about.
The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in
12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as
the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition
contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly
emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original
versions have been replaced by new translations; and a new and
enlarged selection of Fragments has been added. The aim of the
translation remains the same: to make the surviving works of
Aristotle readily accessible to English speaking readers.
This book investigates how fascism - as an ideology and
political praxis - reconfigured the ideological, political, and
moral landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of
extreme 'license' that facilitated the leap into eliminationist
violence. It demonstrates how fascist ideology linked the prospect
of violent 'cleansing' to utopias of national/racial regeneration,
thus encouraging and legitimizing targeted hatred against
particular 'others'. It also shows how the diffusion and
internationalization of fascism in the 1930s produced a sense of a
revolutionary new beginning and created a transnational fascist
'new order' in which Nazi Germany came to occupy a potent position
of authority. The book analyzes how the eliminationist initiative
and precedent of Nazi Germany became a second 'license' that
empowered fascist regimes across Europe to embark on their own
eliminationist projects with diminished accountability. Finally, it
examines how this 'license' - enhanced by the actions of fascists
and the collapse of order caused by World War Two - released
individuals and communities from the burden of legal and moral
accountability, turning them into accomplishes in the most wide,
brutal, and devastating genocidal campaign that the continent had
ever experienced.
One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new
Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is
a human thing' What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's
famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental
questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control;
moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and
love in all their forms - all set against a rich and humane
conception of what makes for a flourishing life. Adam Beresford's
freshly researched translation presents many of Aristotle's key
terms and idioms in standard English for the first time, and
faithfully preserves the unvarnished style of the original.
This book investigates how fascism - as an ideology and political
praxis - reconfigured the ideological, political, and moral
landscape of interwar Europe, generating an atmosphere of extreme
'license' that facilitated the leap into eliminationist violence.
It demonstrates how fascist ideology linked the prospect of violent
'cleansing' to utopias of national/racial regeneration, thus
encouraging and legitimizing targeted hatred against particular
'others'. It also shows how the diffusion and internationalization
of fascism in the 1930s produced a sense of a revolutionary new
beginning and created a transnational fascist 'new order' in which
Nazi Germany came to occupy a potent position of authority. The
book analyzes how the eliminationist initiative and precedent of
Nazi Germany became a second 'license' that empowered fascist
regimes across Europe to embark on their own eliminationist
projects with diminished accountability. Finally, it examines how
this 'license' - enhanced by the actions of fascists and the
collapse of order caused by World War Two - released individuals
and communities from the burden of legal and moral accountability,
turning them into accomplishes in the most wide, brutal, and
devastating genocidal campaign that the continent had ever
experienced.
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Faith, Reason, and Theosis (Paperback)
Aristotle Papanikolaou, George E. Demacopoulos; Contributions by William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, …
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Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways:
positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary
Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together
the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also
interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the
twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative
sense, contemporary theologians used theosis as a triumphalistic
club to beat down Catholic and Protestant Christians, claiming that
they rejected theosis in favor of either a rationalistic or
fideistic approach to Christian life. The essays collected in this
volume move beyond this East–West divide by examining the
relation between faith, reason, and theosis from Orthodox,
Catholic, and Protestant perspectives. A variety of themes are
addressed, such as the nature–grace debate and the relation of
philosophy to theology, through engagement with such diverse
thinkers as Thomas Aquinas, John Wesley, Meister Eckhart, Dionysius
the Areopagite, Symeon the New Theologian, Panayiotis Nellas,
Vladimir Lossky, Martin Luther, Martin Heidegger, Sergius Bulgakov,
John of the Cross, Delores Williams, Evagrius of Pontus, and Hans
Urs von Balthasar. The essays in this book are situated within a
current thinking on theosis that consists of a common, albeit
minimalist, affirmation amidst the flow of differences. The authors
in this volume contribute to the historical theological task of
complicating the contemporary Orthodox narrative, but they also
continue the “theological achievement” of thinking about
theosis so that all Christian traditions may be challenged to
stretch and shift their understanding of theosis even amidst an
ecumenical celebration of the gift of participation in the life of
God.
This title was first published in 2002. An important examination of
an international event from the perspective of Greek foreign
policy, within the wider context of foreign policy in European
integration
Terence Irwin's edition of the Nicomachean Ethics offers more aids
to the reader than are found in any modern English translation. It
includes an Introduction, headings to help the reader follow the
argument, explanatory notes on difficult or important passages, and
a full glossary explaining Aristotle's technical terms. The Third
Edition offers additional revisions of the translation as well as
revised and expanded versions of the notes, glossary, and
Introduction. Also new is an appendix featuring translated
selections from related texts of Aristotle.
The Fascism Reader is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the complex nature, limits, aspects and dynamics of Fascism as both ideology and practice. The book draws together classic and recent interpretations to trace the development of generic fascism. Exploring fascism in all its manifestations, this book discusses notorious examples such as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain, as well as less familiar regimes including Horthy in Hungary, Salazar's dictatorship in Portugal and the British Union of Fascists. The Fascism Reader explores all the key aspects of fascism including: * the essence and limitations of generic fascism * the intellectual and ideological dimensions of fascism * regimes of fascism as particular models of the exercise of power * fascism and society - from anti-semitism to fascist attitudes to women.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day.
Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man
blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging
over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and
self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectures on
ethics are among the most lasting and profound philosophical works
of all time. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin
Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of
thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to
stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
This text is a comparative study of the expansionist foreign
policies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany from 1922 to 1945. It
provides an overview of the ideological motivations behind fascist
expasionism and their impact on fascist policies, and explores the
two main issues which have dominated the historiographical debates
on the nature of fascist expansionism: whether Italy's and
Germany's particular expansionist tendencies can be attributed to a
set of generic fascist values, or were shaped by the long-term,
uniquely national ambitions and developments since unification;
whether the pursuit of expansion was opportunistic or followed a
grand design in each case. This book is a study of the expansionist
visions of Hitler and Mussolini and it should enlighten our
understanding of the dynamics and evolution of the fascist policies
of Italy and Germany to the end of the Second World War.
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