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Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This course will explore the thought of three profoundly influential thinkers in the Western tradition, thinkers whose very names call to mind the spirit of philosophizing or the 'love of wisdom': Socrates (469-399 B.C.), Plato (c. 429-347 B.C.), and Aristotle (384-322 B.C.). The three are most obviously linked by their historical epoch and their common devotion to the search for the truth. But they also share a more immediate bond, for Socrates...
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Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Later generations further developed these initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still shapes the way people decide how to act, and how the notion of body and soul is understood. 240 pp. 40,000 print.
Author
Publisher
I.R. Dee
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
"Augustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity - detailed in his Confessions - ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but tied it to the Greek tradition of philosophy. In this way Christianity managed to keep the flame...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In chasing 'the good life,' many of us sacrifice our relationships, our health, and our sanity, but at the end of the day, we still find ourselves with lives and work that bring us little fulfillment. It's not about the pursuit of happiness, as happiness is superficial and fleeting. It's about meaning, which helps us know that our lives and work matter. As meaning emerges as the next hot topic in personal and organizational transformation, it also...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of ancient and Hellenistic thought that reviews pre-Socratic questions about the nature of the world, what it consists of, and how it was made, and also Classical questions about the inner lives of humans, including the meaning of life and the existence of God.
Author
Publisher
Hendrickson
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"While it would not be correct to say that Philo's works have been 'lost' -- scholars have always known and used Philo -- they have essentially been 'misplaced' as far as the average student of the Bible is concerned. Now the translation of the eminent classicist C. D. Yonge is available in an affordable, easy-to-read edition, with a new foreword and newly translated passages, and containing supposed fragments of Philo's writings from ancient authors...
16) Complete works
Author
Publisher
Hackett Publishing company
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Gathers translations of Plato's works and includes guidance on approaching their reading and study
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Socrates spent a lifetime analysing ethical issues, and the Euthyphro finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. The Apology is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosopher's life. Later, condemned and imprisoned in the Crito, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. And finally, in the Phaedo,...
Author
Series
Great books of the Western World volume 12
Publisher
Encyclopd̆ia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1955, c1952]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Ivan .R. Dee
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.