Klein jacob 1899 1978 (2 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. DETAILS: attractive copy, very good dark blue cloth, strong sewn binding, NOTE: small bits of white paint on top corner edges of front cover, small price label on front endpaper. previous owner's name in ink at top of title page. KLEIN, JACOB. A commentary on Plato's Meno. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965, second printing, 256pp., . A commentary on Plato's Meno, a dialogue between Socrates and Meno about what is virtue and how it is acquired. - CONTENTS: Note -- Introductory remarks -- Amathia -- Doxa. - (A digression in Chapter 5 discusses Aristotle on memory and recollection).…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: badly torn and chipped dust-jacket missing pieces along spine, very good dark blue cloth, binding strong, clear bright white paper. LAID IN: errata slip. KLEIN, JACOB. Lectures and Essays. Edited by Robert B. Williamson and Elliott Zuckerman. Annapolis: St. John's College Press, 1985, v, 393pp., . CONTENTS: Acknowledgments - Biographical Note - Preface - The world of physics and the "natural world" - On a sixteenth-century algebraist - The concept of number in Greek mathematics and philosophy - Modern rationalism - Phenomenology and the history of science - The Copernican revolution - The problems of freedom - History and the liberal arts - The problem and art of writing - The idea of liberal education - Aristotle, an introduction - Leibniz, an introduction - On the nature of nature - On Dante's mount of purgation - On liberal education - The myth of Virgil's Aeneid - A note on Plato's Parmenides - On precision - About Plato's Philebus - Plato's Ion - Speech, its strength and its weaknesses - Plato's Phaedo. 9780960369027 ISBN 0960369023.…