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ISBN: 9780415146425 - Birth of Rhetoric Birth of Rhetoric
Wardy, Robert

ISBN10: 9780203981962  ISBN13: 9780203981962
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
What is rhetoric?Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. More

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ISBN: 9780195133226 - Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy
D, SMITH NICHOLAS

ISBN10: 9780195350920  ISBN13: 9780195350920
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates. Among the contributors are Thomas C. More

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ISBN: 9780521761765 - Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics
Gottlieb

ISBN10: 9780511537103  ISBN13: 9780511537103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
While Aristotle's account of the happy life continues to receive attention, many of his claims about virtue of character seem so puzzling that modern philosophers have often discarded them, or have reworked them to fit more familiar theories that... More

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ISBN: 9780199595556 - Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity
CATHERINE, WILSON

ISBN10: 9780191553523  ISBN13: 9780191553523
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This engaging and richly documented book examines the Scientific Revolution and the formation of the canon of early modern philosophy in light of the rediscovery and reworking of the materialistic philosophy of the ancient atomists... More

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ISBN: 9780140447965 - Nature of Things Nature of Things
Lucretius

ISBN10: 9780141915371  ISBN13: 9780141915371
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is... More

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ISBN: 9780521513395 - Augustine's Intellectual Conversion Augustine's Intellectual Conversion
Dobell

ISBN10: 9780511687433  ISBN13: 9780511687433
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This book examines Augustine's intellectual conversion from Platonism to Christianity, as described at Confessions 7.9.13-21.27. It is widely assumed that this occurred in the summer of 386, shortly before Augustine's volitional conversion in the... More

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ISBN: 9780521898942 - Ludic Proof Ludic Proof
Netz

ISBN10: 9780511537042  ISBN13: 9780511537042
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This book represents a new departure in science studies: an analysis of a scientific style of writing, situating it within the context of the contemporary style of literature. Its philosophical significance is that it provides a novel way of... More

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ISBN: 9780140442106 - Letters from a Stoic Letters from a Stoic
Seneca

ISBN10: 9780141914527  ISBN13: 9780141914527
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
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A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers... More

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ISBN: 9781605125077 - Laws Laws
Plato

ISBN10: 9780141961033  ISBN13: 9780141961033
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ePenguin
Format: Electronic Book
In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form a code of conduct for all aspects of life in... More

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ISBN: 9780199277377 - Aristotle on the Common Sense Aristotle on the Common Sense
PAVEL, GREGORIC

ISBN10: 9780191535055  ISBN13: 9780191535055
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Pavel Gregoric presents a detailed investigation into the Aristotelian concept of the common sense, which explains complex perceptual operations that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include... More