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For years, Laurence Bounds has been pestering some of the most
patient customer service departments from coffee companies to
television studios and shaving companies to travel agents, with his
maddening of letters. From HMV to AEG, the Met Office to the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra - everyone is a target. Discover years of
hilarious letters sent from the Etruria Lodge estate by the
eccentric but highly-educated, Laurence Bounds (B.A, B.Sc). So who
is Laurence Bounds, we hear you ask? A part-time gamekeeper,
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Science, inventor of the
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a serial entrepreneur just like him. Discover how to complain the
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not keen on your ideas. Join him on a side-splitting journey,
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IX. This is Laurence Bounds, his life in his own words...
The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of
cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and
ethical and political theory. It saw the development of wide range
of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales' claim that magnets
have souls and Parmenides' account that there is only one
unchanging existent to the development of an atomist theory of the
physical world. This general account of the Presocratics introduces
the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth to the middle
of the fifth century BC. It explores how we might go about
reconstructing their views and understanding the motivation and
context for their work as well as highlighting the ongoing
philosophical interest of their often surprising claims. Separate
chapters are devoted to each of the major Presocratic thinkers,
including Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras,
Empedocles, Leucippus and Democritus, and an introductory chapter
sets the scene by describing their intellectual world and the
tradition through which their philosophy has been transmitted and
interpreted. With a useful chronology and guide to further reading
the book is an ideal introduction for the student and general
reader.
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.
The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of
new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek
and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it
covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century
BC to the sixth century AD and beyond. There are dedicated
discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and
Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and
successors. The contributors also address various problems of
interpretation and method, highlighting the particular demands and
interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. All original
texts discussed are translated into English.
With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the
clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for
non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a
brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy -
foundations that underpin Western thought today. Guthrie explores
the great age of Greek Philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle -
whilst combining comprehensiveness with brevity. He unpacks the
ideas and arguments of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their
predecessors rather than their successors and describes the
characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking, emphasising
what he calls the 'cultural soil' of their ideas. He also
highlights the achievements of thinkers such as Pythagoras, who in
contemporary accounts of Greek philosophy are frequently
overlooked. Combining philosophical insight and historical
sensitivity, The Greek Philosophers offers newcomers a brilliant
introduction to the greatest thinkers in ancient Greek philosophy
and the very origins of Western thought.
The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of
cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and
ethical and political theory. It saw the development of a wide
range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales' claim that
magnets have souls and Parmenides' account that there is only one
unchanging existent to the development of an atomist theory of the
physical world. This general account of the Presocratics introduces
the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth to the middle
of the fifth century BC. It explores how we might go about
reconstructing their views and understanding the motivation and
context for their work as well as highlighting the ongoing
philosophical interest of their often surprising claims. Separate
chapters are devoted to each of the major Presocratic thinkers,
including Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras,
Empedocles, Leucippus and Democritus, and an introductory chapter
sets the scene by describing their intellectual world and the
tradition through which their philosophy has been transmitted and
interpreted. With a useful chronology and guide to further reading,
the book is an ideal introduction for the student and general
reader.
Energy Systems and Sustainability provides an exploration of the
economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by
current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key
physical and engineering features. From an overview of the
historical evolution of the world's energy systems, through the
principles underlying their use, to future prospects and
sustainability, this comprehensive text provides thorough coverage
of contemporary energy conversion systems and their impact on
society and the environment. The engaging writing style and
frequent use of illustrations makes the text accessible for
students of all backgrounds and levels. Feature boxes throughout
the text present explanations of the more advanced topics and
detailed energy arithmetic is addressed in the appendix. The new
edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most recent
statistics and developments in this rapidly moving field. Digital
formats and resources Energy Systems and Sustainability is
available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of
formats. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient
access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and
links that offer extra learning support:
www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The online resources to accompany
Energy Systems and Sustainability include: For students: * Links to
sources of further information and up-to-date energy statistics *
Self-assessment questions For registered adopters of the book: *
Figures from the book, available for download
The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of
new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek
and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it
covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century
BC to the sixth century AD and beyond. There are dedicated
discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and
Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and
successors. The contributors also address various problems of
interpretation and method, highlighting the particular demands and
interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. All original
texts discussed are translated into English.
This book provides a study of regret (metameleia) in the moral
psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. It was important
for all these philosophers to insist that regret is a
characteristic of neither fully virtuous nor wholly irredeemable
characters. Rather, they took regret to be something that affects
people who retrospectively feel pain at realising an earlier
mistaken action. Regret sets out in full the accounts of the nature
of this emotion found in the works of these philosophers, viewing
them in the context of their respective accounts of virtuous and
non-virtuous agents, ethical progress, the role of knowledge in
producing good actions, and compares it with modern philosophical
notions of 'agent regret'.
With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the
clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for
non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a
brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy -
foundations that underpin Western thought today. Guthrie explores
the great age of Greek Philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle -
whilst combining comprehensiveness with brevity. He unpacks the
ideas and arguments of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their
predecessors rather than their successors and describes the
characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking, emphasising
what he calls the 'cultural soil' of their ideas. He also
highlights the achievements of thinkers such as Pythagoras, who in
contemporary accounts of Greek philosophy are frequently
overlooked. Combining philosophical insight and historical
sensitivity, The Greek Philosophers offers newcomers a brilliant
introduction to the greatest thinkers in ancient Greek philosophy
and the very origins of Western thought.
Ren Girard s thesis that culture and religion arose from an
original act of scapegoating murder gained international scholarly
attention in the early seventies with his publication in France of
Violence and the Sacred. A few years later, with Things Hidden
Since the Foundation of the World, Girard made it clear that his
basic insights derived of all places from the Bible. Those insights
are finally escaping the confines of academia, and coming to the
awareness of a broader, theologically minded public. Many people
are beginning to find in Girard answers to troublesome questions
such as: Is God violent? Is there a necessary relationship between
violence and religion? Why are there so many violent stories in the
Bible? Why did Jesus have to die? Are we living in the end times?
In clear, understandable prose, Compassion or Apocalypse shows how
the Girardian perspective answers such questions, making Girard s
mimetic theory and its application to biblical interpretation
available to those who have little or no familiarity with Girard s
work. To read the Bible from a Girardian point of view is to
discover the radical message of God s nonviolent love in its
historical wrestling with human violence, and its immanent
confrontation with the gathering human apocalypse.
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