The Great Philosophers Democritus

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 48 pages
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Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780221571

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The Great Philosophers:Democritus by Paul Cartledge Pdf

Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series. Democritus c. 460-c. 370BC The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': throughout the modern philosophical tradition, Democritus has been a man little known beyond his labels. Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded - loses sign of the man in the hyperbole. Flattering as it is, it fails to do justice either to the full range of Democritus' interests or to the astonishing originality of his ideas. For Democritus' remarkable investigations took him far beyond the realms of physics and chemistry to explore the science of existence as a whole. Perception, selfhood and society; ethic, politics and the law: as Paul Cartledge's enthralling introduction makes clear, Democritus has much to teach us, in all these fields and more.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415923891

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Democritus by Paul Cartledge Pdf

Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive series from Routledge - 'The great philosophers'. Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ide

Author : Karl Jaspers
Publisher : London : R. Hart-Davis
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : UCLA:31158001455400

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The Great Philosophers by Karl Jaspers Pdf

Author : Leucippus,Democritus,C. C. W. Taylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442612129

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The Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus by Leucippus,Democritus,C. C. W. Taylor Pdf

A new presentation of the evidence for the thought of Leucippus and Democritus, based on the original sources. Includes the Greek text of the fragments with facing English translation, notes, commentary, and complete indexes and concordances.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:900841427

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Democritus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106010297734

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History of Greek Philosophy: Thales to Democritus by Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller Pdf

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0753801833

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Democritus by Paul Cartledge Pdf

The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher': ourown age's 'prophet of quark': throughout modern philosophical traditions, Democritushas been a man little known beyond his labels. Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded - loses sight of the man in the hyperbole. Flattering as it is, it fails to do justice either to the full range of Democritus' interests or to the astonishing originality of his ideas as Paul Cartledge makes clear in this enthralling book.

Author : Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0656538171

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History of Greek Philosophy by Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller Pdf

Excerpt from History of Greek Philosophy: Thales to Democritus In the present volume I have tried to meet this want so far as the early Greek philosophers are concerned, and to get under way with a simple, painless, and, I hope, not unentertaining history Of Greek Philosophy as a whole. I am encouraged to this attempt by my own feeling that philosophy is not really the impossibly abstract, abstruse, cold, and difficult thing of the popular imagination, but rather something essentially warm, close, nay, clinging to everyday life, highly colored, melodramatic, and naturally provocative and engrossing. And with this feeling goes the Opinion that its history is the story Of perhaps the most exciting and sensational pursuit with which the human mind has diverted as well as ennobled itself. If I shall have succeeded in insinuating that philosophy is not so dull and respectable after all, and in troubling the reader, however vaguely, with something of its fascination, I shall feel that I have done what - apart from amusing myself - I set out to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mi-Kyoung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199262225

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Epistemology After Protagoras by Mi-Kyoung Lee Pdf

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Author : BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD. FULLER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033975311

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HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY by BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD. FULLER Pdf

Author : Ava Chitwood
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113887

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Death by Philosophy by Ava Chitwood Pdf

Brings to vivid life the connections between philosophy and biography by examining the spectacular--and often wildly implausible--biographies of famous pre-Socratic thinkers

Author : Peter Hacker
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780221724

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The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein by Peter Hacker Pdf

This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world of philosophical investigation in which 'to smell a rat is ever so much easier than to trap it.' Wittgenstein claimed that the role of philosophy is to dissolve conceptual confusions, to untie the knots in our understanding that result from entanglement in the web of language. He overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of 'the outer', of human behaviour, were equally distorted and so too was the relation between the inner and the outer. Hacker shows how Wittgenstein's examination of our use of words clarifies our notions of mind, body and behaviour.

Author : Bernard De Koven
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781304351821

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A Playful Path by Bernard De Koven Pdf

A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

Author : Katherine MacFarlane
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766034100

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The Father of the Atom by Katherine MacFarlane Pdf

"A biography of ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who believed that all matter was made up of indivisible and indestructible particles called atoms moving around in a void"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Mehmet Emin Demirci
Publisher : Mehmet Emin Demirci
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781005796037

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The Blind in History and Society: Wisdom vs. Despair by Mehmet Emin Demirci Pdf

This book will examine all aspects of the relationship between the blind and the rest of society within the framework of the attitudes that represent a most productive area of social psychology. The reader will learn that historic figures did not consider their blindness a hindrance to their achievements, be they famous literary personalities or Nobel Prize Laureate. The lives of outstanding blind persons such as Democritus, al-Maarri, Dühring, Rodrigo, Dalén, Borges, Ostrovsky and even Ray Charles, will be examined while placing blindness and the blind at the center of social relationships, utilizing rich historical presentations and comprehensive analysis. This book will be of interest to many professionals, educators, historians, social scientists and general readers.