Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2001
ISBN 10: 0872205711 ISBN 13: 9780872205710
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Woodruff's work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today's students and could be staged for modern audiences. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. . . . The choral odes as rendered here deserve special notice. After giving a succinct analysis of each in his introduction, Woodruff translates the lyrics into English that is both poetic and comprehensible. . . . Woodruff's rendering of the dialogue moves along easily; these are lines that any contemporary Antigone, Creon or Haemon might speak. Antigone's words on the gods' unwritten laws keep close to the Greek and yet would be authentic for a modern speaker. . . . Woodruff's introduction is a strong, clear, and clever blend of basic traditional information (to those who know Greek tragedy) and fresh insights. . . . Should our drama department ask for my advice as to a playable text, I would certainly suggest Woodruff's new version. --Karelisa Hartigan, The Classical Bulletin.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 1990
ISBN 10: 0872201015 ISBN 13: 9780872201019
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: used.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 2006
ISBN 10: 087220782X ISBN 13: 9780872207820
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. 59926th. Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of Life. We all have ideas about the good life. We think that pleasure makes life better. We want to be happy. We think that achievements make a difference. There is something to all these ideas, but if taken simply and generally they all miss out on something. Six Myths about the Good Life explores what they miss and, in the process, gives a sense of what a good life can be.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 1993
ISBN 10: 0872202089 ISBN 13: 9780872202085
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Life and Death brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways--metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological, literary--in which philosophers and others have reflected on questions about life and death.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 1991
ISBN 10: 0872200809 ISBN 13: 9780872200807
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Translated By G.m.a. Grube. Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The complete translation, from the Greek of A. O. Prickard's Oxford text, features an introduction by Grube, establishing the historical and critical context of the work, and a biographical index.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 2007
ISBN 10: 0872208737 ISBN 13: 9780872208735
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. 5/31/07. In this clear, concise account, Siderits makes the Buddhist tradition accessible to a Western audience, offering generous selections from the canonical Buddhist texts and providing an engaging, analytical introduction to the basic tenets of Buddhist thought.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1990
ISBN 10: 0872200981 ISBN 13: 9780872200982
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Contents:I. Appearance and RealityII. The Existence of MatterIII. The Nature of MatterIV. IdealismV. Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by DescriptionVI. On InductionVII. On our Knowledge of General PrinciplesVIII. How A Priori Knowledge is PossibleIX. The World of UniversalsX. On Our Knowledge of UniversalsXI. On Intuitive KnowledgeXII. Truth and FalsehoodXIII. Knowledge, Error, and Probable OpinionXIV. The Limits of Philosophical KnowledgeXV. The Value of PhilosophyBibliographical NotIndex.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2010
ISBN 10: 160384192X ISBN 13: 9781603841924
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Here in one convenient volume are the two earliest examples of the ancient Greek novel.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2006
ISBN 10: 0872207986 ISBN 13: 9780872207981
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000
ISBN 10: 0872205428 ISBN 13: 9780872205420
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 1999
ISBN 10: 0872204545 ISBN 13: 9780872204546
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. UK ed. This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all living things to a consideration of the animal soul and, finally, to what is peculiar to the human soul. These are followed by the Treatise on Man, Aquinas' most famous discussion of human nature, but one whose organization is dictated by theological concerns and whose philosophical importance is thus best appreciated when seen as presented here: within the historical philosophical framework of which it constitutes a development. Aquinas' discussions of the will and the passions follow, providing fruitful points of comparison with other philosophers.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000
ISBN 10: 0872204588 ISBN 13: 9780872204584
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. 1. A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this anthology offers pre-twentieth century theories about the concept of race, classic twentieth century sources reiterating and contesting ideas of race as scientific, and several philosophically relevant essays that discuss the issues presented. A general Introduction gives an overview of the readings. Headnotes introduce each selection. Includes suggested further readings.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 1997
ISBN 10: 0872203549 ISBN 13: 9780872203549
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsches mature ideas, including his attack on Platos Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsches text in contemporary American English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 1996
ISBN 10: 0872202917 ISBN 13: 9780872202917
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought and wrote about the world. Miller's skillful introduction places the works in historical context and briefly describes the different metrical forms represented in the selections. Headnotes to each section highlight the background of the poet whose works follows. Complete with a glossary of names and a select bibliography.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 1983
ISBN 10: 091514560X ISBN 13: 9780915145607
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. UK ed. John Locke's subtle and influential defense of religious toleration as argued in his seminal Letter Concerning Toleration (1685) appears in this edition as introduced by one of our most distinguished political theorists and historians of political thought.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 2005
ISBN 10: 0872207277 ISBN 13: 9780872207271
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. paperback / softback. Comprising relevant selections from the four ancient writers whose portraits of Alexander the Great still survive--Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, and Quintus Curtius--this volume provides a complete narrative of the important events in Alexander's life. The Introduction sets these works in historical context, stretching from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War through Alexander's conquest of Asia, and provides an assessment of Alexander's historical importance as well as a survey of the central controversies surrounding his personality, aims and intentions. This edition includes a timeline, maps, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2002
ISBN 10: 0872205894 ISBN 13: 9780872205895
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and condemned to death. Glimpsed today through the extant writings of his contemporaries and near-contemporaries, he remains for us as compelling, enigmatic, and elusive a figure as Jesus or Buddha. Although present-day (like ancient Greek) opinion on the real Socrates diverges widely, six classic texts that any informed judgment of him must take into account appear together, for the first time, in this volume. Those of Plato and Xenophon appear in new, previously unpublished translations that combine accuracy, accessibility, and readability; that of Aristophanes' Clouds offers these same qualities in an unbowdlerized translation that captures brilliantly the bite of Aristophanes' wit. An Introduction to each text and judicious footnotes provide crucial background information and important cross-references.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 1980
ISBN 10: 0915144778 ISBN 13: 9780915144778
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. UK ed. "Nicely conceived, very clearly written. . . . A high level of philosophic substance and sophistication." --David M. Mowry, SUNY at Plattsburgh.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 2005
ISBN 10: 0872207293 ISBN 13: 9780872207295
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. 3.2.2005. This edition of Doctor Faustus features annotated versions, with modernized spelling and punctuation, of the 1604 A-text and the 1592 text of Marlowe's source, the English Faust Book--a translation of the best-selling Historia von Johann Fausten published in Frankfurt in 1587, which recounts the strange story of Doctor John Faustus and his pact with the spirit Mephistopheles.David Wootton's Introduction charts Marlowe's brief, meteoric career; the delicate social and political climate in which Doctor Faustus was staged and the vexed question of the religious sensibilities to which it may have catered; the interpretive significance of variations between the A and B texts; and the shrewd and subversive uses to which Marlowe put the English Faust Book in crafting, according to Wootton, a drama in which orthodox Christian teaching triumphed, but in which Faustus has all the best lines.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 1978
ISBN 10: 0915144530 ISBN 13: 9780915144532
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination. --David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 1998
ISBN 10: 0872203921 ISBN 13: 9780872203921
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. [Woodruff's translation] is clear, fluent, and vigorous, well thought out, readable and forceful. The rhythms are right, ever-present but not too insistent or obvious. It can be spoken instead of read and so is viable as an acting version; and it keeps the lines of the plot well focused. The Introduction offers a good survey of critical approaches. The notes at the foot of the page are suitably brief and nonintrusive and give basic information for the non-specialist. --Charles Segal, Harvard University.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett, 1987
ISBN 10: 0872200299 ISBN 13: 9780872200296
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer - translated into eight languages - remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct them.
Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2007
ISBN 10: 0872208222 ISBN 13: 9780872208223
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. 8.8.2007. This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2001
ISBN 10: 0872205835 ISBN 13: 9780872205833
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Entirely faithful to Boethius' Latin; Relihan's translation makes the philosophy of the Consolation intelligible to readers; it gives equal weight to the poetry--in fact, Relihan's metrical translation of Boethius' metro are themselves contributions of the first moment to Boethian studies. Boethius finally has a translator equal to his prodigious talents and his manifold vision. --Joseph Pucci, Brown University.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 2002
ISBN 10: 087220605X ISBN 13: 9780872206052
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Second Edition,2. This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Pub Co, 2000
ISBN 10: 087220510X ISBN 13: 9780872205109
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Later Printing Used. This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of the author, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work-as well as such features of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices, households, dinner parties, religion, and philosophy. It offers, in short, a remarkably informative and engaging account of major aspects of Imperial Roman culture as seen through the prism of our first extant novel.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 1993
ISBN 10: 0872201929 ISBN 13: 9780872201927
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. 3rd. Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining its clear and accessible style.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2012
ISBN 10: 1603841903 ISBN 13: 9781603841900
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult play is a model of clarity, intelligence, and a profound familiarity with the workings of Greek myth, Greek literature, and literature in general. --Rachel Hadas, Department of English, Rutgers University.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 1987
ISBN 10: 0872200167 ISBN 13: 9780872200166
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Translated By Donald Zeyl. This is an excellent translation. It achieves a very high standard of accuracy and readability, two goals very difficult to attain in combination when it comes to such a master of prose and philosophical argument as Plato. Because of this the book is suitable for courses at all levels in philosophy, from introductory courses on Plato, or problems in Philosophy, to graduate seminars. --Gerasimos Santas, Teaching Philosophy.
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Editore: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co., 2000
ISBN 10: 0872204928 ISBN 13: 9780872204928
Da: LibraryMercantile, Humble, TX, U.S.A.
Condizione: very good.
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