The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune, Steven D. Hales

Автор: Clark Stephen R. L.
Название: Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice
ISBN: 022656505X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226565057
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this book, distinguished philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark shows that they form a vital set of spiritual exercises by which individuals can achieve one of Plotinus`s most important goals: self-transformation through contemplation. Clark examines a variety of Plotinus`s myths and metaphors within the cultural and philosophical context of his time.

Автор: Brennan Chris
Название: Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune
ISBN: 0998588903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998588902
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Автор: Norton, David Fate; Norton, Mary J.
Название: David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
ISBN: 0199596336 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199596331
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume`s Treatise, one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. The first volume contains the critical text of David Hume`s Treatise of Human Nature, followed by the short Abstract and concluding with A Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in Edinburgh.

Автор: Lee E. Patterson
Название: Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 0292737505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292737501
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In ancient Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent.

In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in the construction of political and cultural identity. He draws examples both from the literary and epigraphical records and shows the fundamental difference between the two. He also expands his study into the question of Greek credulity—how much of these founding myths did they actually believe, and how much was just a useful fiction for diplomatic relations? Of central importance is the authority the Greeks gave to myth, whether to elaborate narratives or to a simple acknowledgment of an ancestor. Most Greeks could readily accept ties of interstate kinship even when local origin narratives could not be reconciled smoothly or when myths used to explain the link between communities were only "discovered" upon the actual occasion of diplomacy, because such claims had been given authority in the collective memory of the Greeks.

Автор: Levi Strauss Claude
Название: Myth and Meaning
ISBN: 0415854695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415854696
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights. It is a crystalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, including the theory of structuralism and the difference between 'primitive' and 'scientific' thought and shows why Levi-Strauss remains a hugely important intellectual figure.

Название: Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions
ISBN: 1783482516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783482511
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This is a philosophical discussion of cinema`s power to create positive illusions and myths, drawing on Nietzsche, Kracauer, and Deleuze.

Автор: Casey Edward S
Название: Fate of Place
ISBN: 0520276035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520276031
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Описание: Offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. In this title, the author begins with mythological and religious creation stories and the theories of Plato and Aristotle and then explores the heritage of Neoplatonic, medieval, and Renaissance speculations about space.

Автор: Steven D. Hales
Название: The Myth of Luck: Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune
ISBN: 1350149284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350149281
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Luck is a golden thread woven through the tapestry of the history of ideas, uniting gods and gamblers, philosophers and theologians, emperors, scientists, and slaves. Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune.

The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe.

Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Oedipus and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to Aquinas, Galileo, ethics, Russian Roulette, Camus, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion.

By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.