603 results for '"PLATO"'

A collection of essays that charts the borderland between falsehood and fiction in the ancient world, particularly by considering how far "lying" was distinguished from "fiction" at different periods...

Arthur C. Danto's lucid introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought remains an unparalleled guide to problems in metaphysics and epistemology that have engaged philosophers...

In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and...

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic...

Ancient polemics on Sparta (by Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, and others) have had a remarkable afterlife in the political and educational thought of Renaissance Italy, the France of the Philosophes,...

Katja Maria Vogt's Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about the difference between belief and knowledge. Beliefs — doxai — are deficient cognitive attitudes...

Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes...

Drawing on philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics, biology, and theology, Stevenson introduces readers to the endlessly fascinating subject of human nature. He outlines background theories of...

Anthony Preus is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Binghamton and co-author, with John Anton, of Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy I; Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy...

Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the...

The first modern biography of Aristotle―student of Plato, tutor to Alexander, and architect of ideas still studied around the worldAristotle stands among the most brilliant and influential figures in...

Igor Stravinsky declared that mathematics is "as useful to [the musician] as the learning of another language is to a poet." In this elegant exploration, Edward Rothstein, the cultural critic for The...

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism focuses on criticism in the Classical period up to about A.D. 325. This first survey examines the beginnings of critical consciousness in...

Instance ontology, or particularism--the doctrine that asserts the individuality of properties and relations--has been a persistent topic in Western philosophy, discussed in works by Plato and...

In Books 8 and 9 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle distinguishes among three forms of friendship: a primary kind motivated by the other's character and two other kinds motivated by utility and...

Aristoxenus of Tarentum was reported to have been bitterly disappointed when Theophrastus was chosen instead of him to succeed Aristotle as the head of the Peripatetic School. He had a truly...

"The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks...

Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year,...

A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure. "[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them...