Автор: Lampe Kurt
Название: The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life
ISBN: 0691161135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691161136
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 18090 T
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According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the Cyrenaics pursued a way of life in which moments of pleasure, particularly bodily pleasure, held the highest value. In The Birth of Hedonism, Kurt Lampe provides the most comprehensive account in any language of Cyrenaic ideas and behavior, revolutionizing the understanding of this neglected but important school of philosophy.

The Birth of Hedonism thoroughly and sympathetically reconstructs the doctrines and practices of the Cyrenaics, who were active between the fourth and third centuries BCE. The book examines not only Aristippus and the mainstream Cyrenaics, but also Hegesias, Anniceris, and Theodorus. Contrary to recent scholarship, the book shows that the Cyrenaics, despite giving primary value to discrete pleasurable experiences, accepted the dominant Greek philosophical belief that life-long happiness and the virtues that sustain it are the principal concerns of ethics. The book also offers the first in-depth effort to understand Theodorus's atheism and Hegesias's pessimism, both of which are extremely unusual in ancient Greek philosophy and which raise the interesting question of hedonism's relationship to pessimism and atheism. Finally, the book explores the "new Cyrenaicism" of the nineteenth-century writer and classicist Walter Pater, who drew out the enduring philosophical interest of Cyrenaic hedonism more than any other modern thinker.

Автор: Bennett, Jonathan
Название: Learning from six philosophers
ISBN: 019926628X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199266289
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. His chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not why not? What can be learned from its success or failure?

Автор: Taylor, Joan E.
Название: Jewish women philosophers of first-century alexandria
ISBN: 0199291411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199291410
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Описание: The `Therapeutae` were a Jewish group of ascetic philosophers who lived outside Alexandria in the middle of the first century. This study focuses on issues of history, women, and gender in an exploration of the group, and comes to conclusions about the `Therapeutae` and their relationship with the Jewish allegorical school of exegesis.

Автор: Barnes, Jonathan
Название: Pre-socratic philosophers
ISBN: 0415050790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415050791
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Demonstrates the continuing importance of the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition - all the main thinkers from Thales to the Sophists.

Автор: Scheffler Israel
Название: Gallery of Scholars / A Philosopher`s Recollections
ISBN: 140202679X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781402026799
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Описание: This volume offers a vivid personal account of eminent philosophers and educators with whom the author has interacted over the half century of his academic career at Harvard. It recalls the personalities and ideas of landmark thinkers of the recent past, thus counteracting the prevalent amnesia of research universities. It reflects on the educational impact of the scholars' styles of teaching as well as the varied approaches embodied in their academic practice. In addition, it affords insights into the human workings of universities and the varieties of scholarship in the continuing quest of shared understanding. The book includes fourteen photographs of scholars portrayed in the book.

Автор: Ward Julie, Lott L Tommy L, Smith Richard,
Название: Philosophers on Race
ISBN: 063122226X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631222262
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Описание: Offers a research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and `barbarian` in the works of Plato and Aristotle, and the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought.

Автор: Osborne, Catherine
Название: Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
ISBN: 0199282064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199282067
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals.

Автор: Waterfield, Robin
Название: The First Philosophers
ISBN: 019953909X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199539093
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: These first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. This is a unique and invaluable collection of the works of the Presocratics and the Sophists. Waterfield brings together the works of these early thinkers with brilliant new translation and exceptional commentary. This is the ideal anthology for the student of this increasingly appreciated field of classical philosophy.

Автор: Kirk, G.s. Raven, J.e. Schofield, Malcolm
Название: Presocratic philosophers
ISBN: 0521274559 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521274555
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides.

Автор: Marina McCoy
Название: Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists
ISBN: 0521878632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521878630
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Marina McCoy explores Plato’s treatment of the rhetoric of philosophers and sophists through a thematic treatment of six different Platonic dialogues, including Apology, Protagoras, Gorgias, Republic, Sophist, and Phaedras. She argues that Plato presents the philosopher and the sophist as difficult to distinguish, insofar as both use rhetoric as part of their arguments. Plato does not present philosophy as rhetoric-free, but rather shows that rhetoric is an integral part of philosophy. However, the philosopher and the sophist are distinguished by the philosopher’s love of the forms as the ultimate objects of desire. It is this love of the forms that informs the philosopher’s rhetoric, which he uses to lead his partner to better understand his deepest desires. McCoy’s work is of interest to philosophers, classicists, and communications specialists alike in its careful yet comprehensive treatment of philosophy, sophistry, and rhetoric as portrayed through the drama of the dialogues.

Автор: Butts Robert E., Solomon Graham
Название: Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures
ISBN: 0792366085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792366089
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the irrational. He viewed scientific rationality as our major defence against the various conditions that encourage witch hunts and similar outbursts of irrationality, with all their attendant pain and terror. Butts saw himself as a pragmatic realist, combining what he took to be the best aspects of logical empiricism with a historically informed pragmatism, deeply appreciative of the methods of science, trying to describe a kind of rationality essential in the struggle to preserve human values. This volume gathers previously unpublished essays and lectures with some previously published, thematically related essays. It includes essays and lectures on philosophical aspects of the European witch hunt, on scientific rationality and methodology, and on the relationships between science and philosophy exhibited in the writings of such historically significant figures as Leibniz, D'Alembert, Hume, Kant, Carnap and Kuhn.

Автор: Osborne, Catherine
Название: Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
ISBN: 0199568278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199568277
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Цена: 12230 T
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Описание: This unusual philosophy book asks the reader to reconsider the received view that animal rights have no place in ancient thought. Catherine Osborne argues that by reflecting on the work of the ancient philosophers and poets, we can see when and how we lost touch with the natural intelligence of dumb animals.