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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical...
Birth of the Symbol
Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol."
The...
Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
This concise book tells the story of the most important theological work of the Middle Ages, the vast Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, the Summa was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers...
Augustine's Confessions
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography...
Pursuits of Wisdom
Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied...
Knowledge, Nature, and the Good
Essays on Ancient Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential Reason and Emotion, Cooper addresses a wide range of topics and periods--from Hippocratic medical theory...
The Dialectic of Essence
A Study of Plato's Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the middle period dialogues, the Phaedo and the...
Explaining the Cosmos
The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and...
From Protagoras to Aristotle
Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the...
How Mathematicians Think
Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive...
The Blind Spot
Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can...
by Øystein Linnebo
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading contemporary scholars
Mathematics is one of humanity's most successful yet puzzling endeavors. It is a model of precision and objectivity, but appears distinct from the empirical sciences because...
The Golden Age Shtetl
A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging...
by Mark R. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages? In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book, by one of the top scholars in the field, is the first comprehensive book to study poverty in a premodern Jewish community--from...