Philosophy

ISBN: 9780791456330
Published by : State University of New York Press
Aristotle belongs to the small class of philosophers who were not only influential in a particular field of philosophy but also shaped the profile of every philosophical discipline. In this book Otfried Hoffe provides a comprehensive introducti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780791456347
Published by : State University of New York Press
Aristotle belongs to the small class of philosophers who were not only influential in a particular field of philosophy but also shaped the profile of every philosophical discipline. In this book Otfried Hoffe provides a comprehensive introducti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780910055901
Published by : University of Washington Press
Plato has the reputation for being difficult, particularly among modern readers outside philosophical circles. This volume appraoches Plato's works from a completely different perspective. Assuming some prior knowledge of Plato, Quincy presents `c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780826214799
Published by : Missouri UP
This detailed analysis of Plato's writings argues that `it is by reading the dialogues as works of literature that we might best begin to understand Plato... on his own terms'. The study is based on the premise that Homer's Odyssey was Plato's m... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515083379
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Thirteen English-language papers, the proceedings of a conference held in Frankfurt in 2000, examine the culture of knowledge that surrounded Plato, contrasting it with Plato's idealised theory of knowledge. These specialised and annotated pap... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780826214591
Published by : Missouri UP
`Once in a while one comes across a work that strikes one as the definitive word on the text it examines. This is such a work' - David Walsh. This substantial study presents an in-depth and meticulous study of Plato's treatment of love in Symposi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198237662
Published by : Oxford University Press
When Plato died in 347 BC he not only bequeathed the physical legacy of his Academy, at the intellectual centre of Athens, but also an enormous wealth of philosophical writings. Not surprisingly, studies on Platonism focus on Plato himself but Joh... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780791451434
Published by : State University of New York Press
Ontology and the Art of Tragedy is a sustained reflection on the principles and criteria from which to guide one's approach to Aristotle's Poetics. Its scope is twofold: historical and systematic. In its historical aspect it develops an approac... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780791451441
Published by : State University of New York Press
Ontology and the Art of Tragedy is a sustained reflection on the principles and criteria from which to guide one's approach to Aristotle's Poetics. Its scope is twofold: historical and systematic. In its historical aspect it develops an approac... .... Learn More