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Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107688650
C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Author : Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780684823744
Provides three complete works and selections from Lewis's autobiography, adult fiction, religious and philosophical writings, criticism, poetry, and letters
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000897722
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from D to L.
Author : Pierre Larousse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
ISBN : WISC:89015582257
Author : Nikki Stoddard Schofield
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665536585
When Albany dresses in a federal uniform to deliver a map to General Grant, she does not expect to see a Confederate soldier fall under his horse during the Battle of the Wilderness. Albany rescues Paxton who has been temporarily blinded by the cannon fire that killed his horse. Regaining his sight, Paxton is stunned to learn his companion is the enemy and a woman. As the couple travels the ground, meeting slaves, ne’er-do-wells, and children, they seek safe havens during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Amid the chaos of battle, they fall in love.
Author : Kurt Raaflaub
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0226701018
Although there is constant conflict over its meanings and limits, political freedom itself is considered a fundamental and universal value throughout the modern world. For most of human history, however, this was not the case. In this book, Kurt Raaflaub asks the essential question: when, why, and under what circumstances did the concept of freedom originate? To find out, Raaflaub analyses ancient Greek texts from Homer to Thucydides in their social and political contexts. Archaic Greece, he concludes, had little use for the idea of political freedom; the concept arose instead during the great confrontation between Greeks and Persians in the early fifth century BCE. Raaflaub then examines the relationship of freedom with other concepts, such as equality, citizenship, and law, and pursues subsequent uses of the idea—often, paradoxically, as a tool of domination, propaganda, and ideology. Raaflaub's book thus illuminates both the history of ancient Greek society and the evolution of one of humankind's most important values, and will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the conceptual fabric that still shapes our world views.
Author : Susanne Bobzien
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192636560
Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien. The essays present the main ancient theories of determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility ranging from Aristotle via Epicureans and Stoics to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the third century CE. The author discusses questions about rational and autonomous human agency and their compatibility with preceding causes, external or internal; with external impediments; with divine predetermination and theological questions; with physical theories like atomism and continuum theory, and with the sciences more generally; with elements that determine character development from childhood, such as nature and nurture; with epistemic features such as ignorance of circumstances; with necessity and modal theories generally; with folk theories of fatalism; and also with questions of how human autonomous agency is related to moral development, virtue and wisdom, blame and praise. Historically unified, philosophically profound, and methodologically rigorous, Bobzien's discussions show that in classical and Hellenistic philosophy these topics were all debated without reference to freedom to do otherwise or to free will, and that the latter two notions were fully developed only later.
Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788763540629
This volume collects new, revised, and expanded articles about Aristotle's Politics by renowned classical scholar Mogens Herman Hansen. By addressing old controversies, and treating issues that have been ignored or neglected, Hansen sheds new lights on a range of issues of paramount importance for understanding the Politics: Aristotle's view of democratic freedom and political freedom as a value in itself; Aristotle’s silence as to the numerous federal states in the contemporary Hellenic polis world; the sixfold model of constitutions and the alternative model according to which all constitutions are either democracies or oligarchies or a mixed form of oligarchy and democracy. In a final article he shows that Aristotle took a positive view of the mixed forms of democracy, in particular an indirect form of democracy in which the power of the people was restricted to electing the magistrates and calling them to account whereas all political decisions were left to be made by the elected magistrates.
By bringing these articles within the covers of a single volume, Mogens Herman Hansen’s writings on an important subject will be more conveniently available to students, scholars, and general readers interested in Aristotle’s Politics.
Mogens Herman Hansen, emeritus reader in Ancient Greek at the University of Copenhagen, now associated with The Royal Library in Copenhagen, is a leading authority in Athenian democracy and the Greek City-State. He is a member of the British Academy and the Danish Academy for Sciences and Letters. He was formerly the Director of The Copenhagen Polis Centre 1993-2005.
Author : Getzel M. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931022
This authoritative and sweeping compendium, the second volume in Getzel Cohen's organized survey of the Greek settlements founded or refounded in the Hellenistic period, provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the settlements in Syria, The Red Sea Basin, and North Africa from 331 to 31 BCE. Organized geographically, the volume pulls together discoveries and debates from dozens of widely scattered archaeological and epigraphic projects. Cohen's magisterial breadth of focus enables him to provide more than a compilation of information; the volume also contributes to ongoing questions and will point the way toward new avenues of inquiry.
Author : Carolina Araújo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350257054
In this pathbreaking interpretation of Plato's foundational text of political philosophy, Carolina Araújo reveals how the Republic remains ripe for an interpretation grounded in notions of cooperation, flourishing and justice relevant to the diversity of contemporary life. Plato's Republic has the Greek name of Politeia that Araújo translates as “the way of life of the citizens,” not “the State” or “the form of government” as it more traditionally rendered. Plato's treatise, Politeia, depicts the rich array of patterns emerging from human interaction and enquires into the best amongst them. Cooperative Flourishing in Plato's Republic returns to these important questions about society – how to live with a vast diversity of personalities, with different interests and abilities, all of them trying to flourish – and asks how best can we share our environment? With rigorous philosophical analysis of the Greek text, accompanied by original translations of the most important passages, Araújo upends mainstream scholarship to progress Socrates' “bottom-up” view of politics and rejects previous readings of the Republic as a proto-totalitarian text, psychological study or lengthy analogy. By defending a theory of Platonic justice that is rooted in cooperative flourishing, the public education of all citizens and the contribution of philosophers to political life, “the beautiful city”, which Plato called Kallipolis, emerges as a hopeful possibility.
Author : William Winslow Crosskey,William Jeffrey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : History
ISBN : 0226121380
Author : Josiah Ober,Charles Hedrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691227887
This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek democracy and its contemporary relevance. The nineteen contributors remain diverse in their political commitments and in their analytic approaches, but all have engaged deeply with Greek texts, with normative and historical concerns, and with each others' arguments. The issues and tensions examined here are basic to both history and political theory: revolution versus stability, freedom and equality, law and popular sovereignty, cultural ideals and social practice. While the authors are sharply critical of many aspects of Athenian society, culture, and government, they are united by a conviction that classical Athenian democracy has once again become a centrally important subject for political debate. The contributors are Benjamin R. Barber, Alan Boegehold, Paul Cartledge, Susan Guettel Cole, W. Robert Connor, Carol Dougherty, J. Peter Euben, Mogens H. Hansen, Victor D. Hanson, Carnes Lord, Philip Brook Manville, Ian Morris, Martin Ostwald, Kurt Raaflaub, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Barry S. Strauss, Robert W. Wallace, Sheldon S. Wolin, and Ellen Meiksins Wood.
Author : William W. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Erie County (Ohio)
ISBN : WISC:89061921524
Author : James Robinson Graves,James Madison Pendleton,Nathaniel Macon Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:56083693
Author : Geisst
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071369996
They laid the foundations of American finance and defined the American brand of capitalism. They bankrolled wars, were the impetus behind the building of the first transcontinental railroad system, and fueled a fledgling nation’s grandiose dreams of empire. S&M Allen, J. P. Morgan & Co., Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers...they were the great Wall Street partnerships, and for well over a century, through a combination of financial genius, political chicanery, and the audacity of Caesars, they wielded unprecedented influence over the business, financial, and political landscapes of a nation. The Last Partnerships combines rigorous scholarship with journalism at its best to present a panoramic history of the rise and fall of the great financial houses—from the “Yankee Bankers,” at the turn of the 19th century, up to Goldman Sachs’ historic IPO in 1999—tracing their origins, their successes and failures over the years, and the reasons for their ultimate demise. The Last Partnerships is must-reading for history buffs and everyone interested in the world of finance behind the business-page headlines.