Plato In 90 Minutes
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Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Philosophers in 90 Minutes |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is no reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state". In Plato in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Plato's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Plato's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Plato within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1461709741 |
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“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1997-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1461703557 |
Download Socrates in 90 Minutes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Philosophers in 90 Minutes |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Heidegger in 90 Minutes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented. Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character. I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. --Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about theme. I find them hard to stop reading. --Richard Bernstein, New York Times. Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. --Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781566632638 |
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Author | : Luc Brisson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226075198 |
Download Plato the Myth Maker Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Philosophers in 90 Minutes |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781566632386 |
Download Confucius in 90 Minutes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A brief and enlightening exploration of Confucius's life and ideas, presented in entertaining and accessible fashion.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1461709822 |
Download Kant in 90 Minutes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Author | : Sandra Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2011-03-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139497979 |
Download Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.
Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download St. Augustine in 90 Minutes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Augustine's struggles with sex and a domineering mother, followed by his spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity - detailed in his Confessions - ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but tied it to the Greek tradition of philosophy. In this way Christianity managed to keep the flame of philosophy burning, however dimly, through the Dark Ages. Augustine also produced important philosophic ideas of his own, including theories of time and subjective knowledge that anticipated by many centuries the work of Kant and Descartes. In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustine's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from St. Augustine's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place St. Augustine within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.