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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
While in prison awaiting a brutal execution, Boethius produced arguably the most famous work of early medieval philosophy and literature, the celebrated Consolation of Philosophy. In alternating sections of prose and poetry, Boethius describes the circumstances of his rapid fall from the upper echelons of society and power. In a conversation with lady Philosophy,...
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Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is an account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. It also considers the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution.
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The Idea of History (1946) is a book of philosophy that explores the nature of history and the historian's interpretation of it. Written by English historian, archaeologist, and philosopher R.G. Collingwood, the work encourages students of history to go beyond events into the motivations of the actors themselves.
R.G. Collingwood (b. 1889, d. 1943) was the son of an artist/archaeologist father and artist/pianist mother. Showing an aptitude for the...
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"Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government forcorrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this...
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"Discourses on Livy", which was first published posthumously in 1531, is Niccolo Machiavelli's analysis of the first ten books of Livy's monumental work of Roman History, which details the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Machiavelli believed that by examining the exemplary greatness in Roman history, practical lessons could be applied to the politics of the present day. The Italian renaissance was causing people...
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"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth. Classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence...
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Localisation et antiquité de la légendaire civilisation de l'Atlantide d'après les sources classiques, égyptiennes, tartessiennes et chalcolithique Ce livre est un résumé très condensé d'une série de plus de trente livres déjà publiés par l'auteur de l'atlantologie historico-scientifique. A cette occasion, ce dernier a tenté de minimiser les notes de pieds de page détaillées, les denses commentaires critiques et l'amplitude de la liste...
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This research compares and contrasts various existential philosophies pertaining to the human condition and its purpose. It specifically focuses on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes. Nicomachean Ethics and The Nature of the Gods regarding virtue, courage, and the necessity of an eternal source were examined as they relate to the subject from a Western worldview. The intended contributions of this research are to disclose that without an objectifiable...
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"Contra el olvido, los nombres de los héroes perduran en la red imaginaria de la mitología, y en la literatura que se alimenta de sus historias y recuenta sus hazañas con nuevos acentos".
En la mitología griega, la vida de los héroes (Ulises, Jasón, Teseo, Hércules...) es casi siempre un ejemplo de heroísmo, valor e ingenio. Pero ningún libro (del que tengamos noticia) se dedica a recoger y analizar así las muertes de estos personajes míticos:...
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La ambigüedad moral y las contradicciones, la corrupción del poder, el carácter como motor de nuestras acciones, la responsabilidad personal... son cuestiones que nos importan mucho hoy, tanto como en la Antigüedad. De ahí que este ensayo atemporal y provocador no trate, en realidad, sobre la tragedia griega.
Los dilemas que más nos preocupan no tendrán tanto que ver con la actualidad o la modernidad si ya se representaban en los teatros clásicos....
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The rise and fall of great civilizations on earth has always been intriguing stories to be told over and over again.This book provides a critical analysis of how the four greatest civilizations on earth arose, and how some of the great civilizations in history eventually declined or were completed wiped out.The book traces how the Western civilization evolved from its origin in the earliest Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia and developed through...
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Ha sido nuestra naturaleza como seres humanos ser curiosos desde el nacimiento, ansiosos por aprender y obtener una comprensión integral de todo. Puede haber diferencias en nuestros estilos de ropa y preferencias alimenticias, pero hay algunas cosas que todos compartimos en común. En nuestras mentes, esta es la pregunta que todos nos hacemos con respecto a la creación del universo. Como resultado de nuestro deseo de descubrir cuándo y cómo comenzaron...
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A lost series of lectures on the history of philosophy, first delivered in China, now available in English for the first time.
This volume reconstructs a series of lectures delivered by John Dewey during his historic trip to China. Though Dewey's original notes were lost, Prof. Robert W. Clopton and Dr. Tsuin-Chen Ou were able to translate his works as they appeared in Chinese newspapers.
Beyond their historical significance, these lectures show Dewey...
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This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Arrian's Discourses of Epictetus, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading.Whether you have already read Discourses of Epictetus or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Epictetus' philosophical thought and Arrian's...
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Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face details the fictional life of the philosopher Hypatia and tells the story of Philammon, a young monk, who becomes involved in the political and religious issues within the city of Alexandria. This fantastic book is considered to be Kingsley's greatest novel, widely read in its time and still enjoyed by discerning readers today - a must-have for any collector of Kingsley. Originally published in 1853, we proudly...
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An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety...
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Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato's dialogues.
Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Plato's dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there exist important affinities between Socrates and the sophists...
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