Reading Philo

Author : Samuel Guttenplan
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631234381

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Reading Philosophy by Samuel Guttenplan Pdf

This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy. Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings. An introductory book which doesn't merely tell the reader about the subject, but requires them to engage philosophically with the text. A pedagogical resource developed in the classroom by the authors at the University of London.

Author : Torrey Seland
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781467442268

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Reading Philo by Torrey Seland Pdf

Guidebook par excellence to a significant ancient Jewish scholar A contemporary of both Jesus and the apostle Paul, Philo was a prolific Jewish theologian, philosopher, and politician -- a fascinating, somewhat enigmatic figure -- who lived his entire life in Alexandria, Egypt. His many books are important sources for our understanding of ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and the philosophical currents of that time. Reading Philo is an excellent introductory guide to Philo’s work and significance. The contributors -- all well-known experts on Philo of Alexandria -- discuss Philo in context, offer methodological considerations (how best to study Philo), and explore Philo’s ongoing relevance and value (why reading him is important). This practical volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone delving into Philo and his world.

Author : Samuel Guttenplan,Jennifer Hornsby,Christopher Janaway,John Schwenkler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119094685

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Reading Philosophy by Samuel Guttenplan,Jennifer Hornsby,Christopher Janaway,John Schwenkler Pdf

A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about as she reads. It serves as starting points for both classroom discussion and independent study. The texts cover a wide range of topics drawn from diverse areas of philosophical investigation, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and political philosophy. This edition has been updated and expanded. New chapters discuss the moral significance of friendship and love, the subjective nature of consciousness and the ways that science might explore conscious experience. And there are new texts and commentary in chapters on doubt, self and moral dilemmas. Guides readers through the experience of active, engaged philosophical reading Presents significant texts, contextualized for newcomers to philosophy Includes writings by philosophers from antiquity to the late 20th-century Contains commentary that provides the context and background necessary for discussion and argument Prompts readers to think through specific questions and to reach their own conclusions This book is an ideal resource for beginning students in philosophy, as well as for anyone wishing to engage with the subject on their own.

Author : Paul Kleinman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781440567681

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Philosophy 101 by Paul Kleinman Pdf

Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology, and instead, gives you a lesson in philosophy that keeps you engaged as you explore the fascinating history of human thought and inquisition. From Aristotle and Heidegger to free will and metaphysics, Philosophy 101 is packed with hundreds of entertaining philosophical tidbits, illustrations, and thought puzzles that you won't be able to find anywhere else. So whether you're looking to unravel the mysteries of existentialism, or just want to find out what made Voltaire tick, Philosophy 101 has all the answers--even the ones you didn't know you were looking for.

Author : Graham Oppy,Michael Scott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405170826

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Reading Philosophy of Religion by Graham Oppy,Michael Scott Pdf

Reading Philosophy of Religion combines a diverse selection of classical and contemporary texts in philosophy of religion with insightful commentaries. Offers a unique presentation through a combination of text and interactive commentary Provides a mix of classic and contemporary texts, including some not anthologized elsewhere Includes writings from thinkers such as Aquinas, Boethius, Hume, Plantinga and Putnam Divided into sections which examine religious language, the existence of God, reason, argument and belief, divine properties, and religious pluralism

Author : Wendy Swartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170951

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Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry by Wendy Swartz Pdf

"In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by some of the most important and innovative poets of the period, this book explores intertextuality—the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs—as a mode of reading and a condition of writing. It illuminates how a text can be seen in its full range of signifying potential within the early medieval constellation of textual connections and cultural signs.If culture is that which connects its members past, present, and future, then the past becomes an inherited and continually replenished repository of cultural patterns and signs with which the literati maintains an organic and constantly negotiated relationship of give and take. Wendy Swartz explores how early medieval writers in China developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations."

Author : Chris Case,Bob Underwood,Jesse Zuck
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441124562

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Philosophy Skills Book by Chris Case,Bob Underwood,Jesse Zuck Pdf

Built around practical exercises, this book helps students to practise and master core reading and writing skills crucial to the successful study of philosophy.

Author : Torrey Seland
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802870698

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Reading Philo by Torrey Seland Pdf

A contemporary of both Jesus and the apostle Paul, Philo was a prolific Jewish theologian, philosopher, and politician -- a fascinating, somewhat enigmatic figure -- who lived his entire life in Alexandria, Egypt. His many books are important sources for our understanding of ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and the philosophical currents of that time. Reading Philo is an excellent introductory guide to Philo s work and significance. The contributors -- all well-known experts on Philo of Alexandria -- discuss Philo in context, offer methodological considerations (how best to study Philo), and explore Philo s ongoing relevance and value (why reading him is important). This practical volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone delving into Philo and his world.

Author : Arkady Plotnitsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402052545

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Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy by Arkady Plotnitsky Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics as complementarity, and on the relationships between physics and philosophy in Bohr's work. The importance of quantum field theory for Bohr's thinking has not been adequately addressed in the literature on Bohr. This book provides clarification of Bohr's writings (which usually pose problems of reading), and an analysis of the role of quantum field theory in Bohr's thinking.

Author : Michelle Boulous Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134703043

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Philosophy and the Maternal Body by Michelle Boulous Walker Pdf

Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.

Author : Peter Gibson
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789504316

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A Degree in a Book: Philosophy by Peter Gibson Pdf

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Philosophy provides you with all the concepts you need to understand the fundamental issues. Filled with helpful diagrams, suggestions for further reading, and easily digestible features on the history of philosophy, this book makes learning the subject easier than ever. Including ideas from Aristotle and Zeno to Descartes and Wittgenstein, it covers the whole range of western thought. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to answer questions like: • What is truth? • What can I really know? • How can I live a moral life? • Do I have free will?

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191530609

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Reading Seneca by Brad Inwood Pdf

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. In each of these essays Seneca is considered as a philosopher, but with as much account as possible taken of his life, his education, his intellectual and literary background, his career, and his self-presentation as an author. Seneca emerges as a discerning and well-read Stoic, with a strong inclination to think for himself in the context of an intellectual climate teeming with influences from other schools. Seneca's intellectual engagement with Platonism, Aristotelianism, and even with Epicureanism involved a wide range of substantial philosophical interests and concerns. His philosophy was indeed shaped by the fact that he was a Roman, but he was a true philosopher shaped by his culture rather than a Roman writer trying his hand at philosophical themes. The highly rhetorical character of his writing must be accounted for when reading his works, and when one does so the underlying philosophical themes stand out more clearly. While it is hard to generalize about an overall intellectual agenda or systematic philosophical method, key themes and strategies are evident. Inwood shows how Seneca's philosophical ingenium worked itself out in a fundamentally particularistic way as he pursued those aspects of Stoicism that engaged him most forcefully over his career.

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : OCLC:229397783

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How to Read a Book by Mortimer Jerome Adler Pdf

Author : Thomas M. Lennon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802082661

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Reading Bayle by Thomas M. Lennon Pdf

A critical but sympathetic treatment of Pierre Bayle. Once known as the 'Arsenal of the Enlightenment, ' his concepts were widely adopted by later thinkers, but since his time there has been nothing but disagreement about how Bayle is to be interpreted

Author : Charles Duke Philo
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 1920 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619701168

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The Works of Philo by Charles Duke Philo Pdf

An affordable edition of Philo! A contemporary of Jesus and Paul, Philo wrote extensively on the Hebrew Scriptures and other Jewish topics, but few have read his work because all available sets were pricey. This edition features modern type, passages keyed to the Loeb referencing system, and several newly translated sections not found in other editions.