Narrow your search

Library

VUB (7)

KU Leuven (5)

LUCA School of Arts (5)

Odisee (5)

Thomas More Kempen (5)

Thomas More Mechelen (5)

UCLL (5)

VIVES (5)

ULiège (4)

UCLouvain (3)

More...

Resource type

book (7)


Language

English (7)


Year
From To Submit

2022 (1)

2014 (1)

2013 (1)

2009 (1)

1996 (1)

More...
Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by

Book
Essays on being
Author:
ISBN: 9780199534807 0199534802 9780199654352 0199654352 9780191560064 0191560065 9786612126130 6612126132 128212613X 0191608955 1383044694 9780191608957 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In this series of essays published over 40 years, Charles Kahn explicates the ancient Greek concept of 'being'. His linguistic aim of explaining the meaning of the verb 'einai' is intertwined with his historical and philosophical project of understanding how the concept came to be central to Greek philosophy.


Book
Plato and the post-Socratic dialogue
Author:
ISBN: 9781107576421 9781107031456 1107031451 9781139381734 9781461953579 146195357X 1139381733 1139892339 1107461251 1107576423 1107472113 1107468507 1107465001 110747311X 1306211808 9781139892339 9781107461253 9781107472112 9781107468504 9781107465008 1107454158 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work. Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction of a wider theory of Being that provides the background for the creation story of the Timaeus. This rich study, the natural successor to Kahn's earlier Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, will interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and science.

The art and thought of Heraclitus
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1107712912 1107712610 1107719984 1107715857 0511936338 0511627394 9781107719989 9780511627392 0521218837 9780521218832 052128645X 9781107712911 9781107712614 9781107715851 9780511936333 9780521286459 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of multiple meaning, and a vision of human life and death within the larger order of nature. The fragments are presented here in a readable order; translation and commentary aim to make accessible the power and originality of a systematic thinker and a great master of artistic prose. The commentary locates Heraclitus within the tradition of early Greek thought, but stresses the importance of his ideas for topical theories of language, literature and philosophy.


Book
Plato and the Socratic dialogue
Author:
ISBN: 0511006896 0511882211 0511585578 9780511006890 9780521648301 0521648300 9780521433259 0521433258 0521433258 0521648300 9780511882210 9780511585579 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book proposes a new paradigm for the interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues. Rejecting the usual assumption of a distinct 'Socratic' period in the development of Plato's thought, this view regards the earlier works as deliberate preparation for the exposition of Plato's mature philosophy. Differences between the dialogues do not represent different stages in Plato's own thinking but rather different aspects and moments in the presentation of a new and unfamiliar view of reality. Once the fictional character of the Socratic genre is recognised, there is no reason to regard Plato's early dialogues as representing the philosophy of the historical Socrates. The result is a unified interpretation of all of the dialogues down to the Republic and the Phaedrus.


Book
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology
Author:
ISBN: 9780231878227 Year: 1960 Publisher: New York, NY

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords


Book
Plato's Cretan City
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9780691242859 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords


Book
The Pre-Socratics
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 0691020884 9781400863204 1400863201 9780691608273 069160827X 0691636745 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. "Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public."--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology "Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better."--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World "The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject."--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences "[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics."--David E. Hahm, IsisOriginally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Keywords

Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- History of philosophy --- Antiquity --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Academic skepticism. --- Ad hoc hypothesis. --- Agnosticism. --- Ambiguity. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anaximander. --- Anaximenes. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Antinomy. --- Aphorism. --- Apologue. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Astral body. --- Atomism. --- Callicles. --- Classical element. --- Concept. --- Consciousness. --- Contradiction. --- Conventionalism. --- Critique. --- Democritus. --- Deprecation. --- Dialectician. --- Divine law. --- Dualism (philosophy of mind). --- Dualism. --- Empedocles. --- Empiricism. --- Eristic. --- Etymology. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- Family resemblance. --- First principle. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Formal fallacy. --- Good and evil. --- Heraclitus of Ephesus. --- Hippasus. --- Historicism. --- Idealism. --- Identity of indiscernibles. --- Infinite regress. --- Leucippus. --- Leveling (philosophy). --- Logical extreme. --- Logical reasoning. --- Logos. --- Lucretius. --- Magna Moralia. --- Materialism. --- Middle term. --- Modern physics. --- Moral relativism. --- Multitude. --- Mutatis mutandis. --- Mythopoeic thought. --- Naturalness (physics). --- Neoplatonism. --- Noema. --- Nous. --- Ontology. --- Paradox. --- Parmenides. --- Perspectivism. --- Philolaus. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physics (Aristotle). --- Plato. --- Positivism. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Principle of sufficient reason. --- Pseudoscience. --- Pyrrhonism. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Sophistication. --- Subjectivism. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Concept of Mind. --- The Philosopher. --- The Soul of the World. --- Themistius. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Truism. --- Unconscious inference. --- Unity of opposites. --- Verisimilitude. --- Wesley C. Salmon. --- Xenophanes. --- Zeno of Elea. --- Zeno's paradoxes.

Listing 1 - 7 of 7
Sort by