592 results for '"Plato"'

“[An] extraordinary and urgent book.” ―Jonathan Haidt “The Mattering Instinct is a masterpiece. I wept, I laughed out loud, I came face-to-face with the wellsprings of my life, but mostly I marveled...

In 1738, Jacques Vaucanson unveiled his masterpiece before the court of Louis XV: a gilded copper duck that ate, drank, quacked, flapped its wings, splashed about, and, most astonishing of all,...

The definitive book on judicial review in Athens from the 5th through the 4th centuries BCE.The power of the court to overturn a law or decree—called judicial review—is a critical feature of modern...

Bevat essays van Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Monique Wittig en Catherine Clément over feminisme en religie. Elk van deze feministische denkers wordt geïntroduceerd door een...

"As it is, the book is indispensable; it has, indeed, no serious English rival."--Times Literary Supplement. "Sir Thomas Heath, foremost English historian of the ancient exact sciences...

Critics of religion have argued that Christianity's success stems from its promise of eternal life, that people become Christian at bottom merely to cope with their fear of death. Contemporary...

This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action. Can there be an ethics of emotion or an ethics of fantasy? If what we feel and what we think...

English summary: This two-volume edition of Xenophon's Memorabilia offers a thoroughly researched critical edition of the Greek text, including variants and considerations of manuscript traditions,...

New York Times Bestseller "Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn't mean you have to be one. Mark Manson's book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more...

Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take salt for granted, a common, inexpensive substance that seasons food or clears ice from roads, a...

"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth...