Author: PlatoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immortality
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Plato His Apology of Socrates, and Phaedo Or Dialogue Concerning the Immortality of Mans Soul, and Manner of Socrates His Death:
Author: PlatoPlato: His Apology of Socrates
Author: PlatoPhilosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment
Author: Michael PrincePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521550628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
English Translations from the Greek
Author: Finley Melville Kendall FosterPublisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A bibliography of English translations, from the establishment of Caxton's printing press in 1476 to the early 20th century, of Ancient Greek texts to 200 A.D.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004396756
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1027
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides almost unbroken coverage, across three-dozen studies, of 2450 years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates – the singular Athenian intellectual, paradigm of moral discipline, and inspiration for millennia of philosophical, rhetorical, and dramatic composition. Following an Introduction reflecting on the essentially “receptive” nature of Socrates’ influence (by contrast to Plato’s), chapters address the uptake of Socrates by authors in the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique (including Latin Christian, Syriac, and Arabic), Medieval (including Byzantine), Renaissance, Early Modern, Late Modern, and Twentieth-Century periods. Together they reveal the continuity of Socrates’ idiosyncratic, polyvalent, and deep imprint on the history of Western thought, and witness the value of further research in the reception of Socrates.
Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800
Author: Tania Sona SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442294
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 traces the development of British rhetorical culture through English translations of selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus, along with a glossary of English rhetorical vocabulary.
Platonism and the English Imagination
Author: Anna BaldwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521403081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive overview of the influence of Platonism on the English literary tradition, showing how English writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats, Pound and Iris Murdoch, used Platonic themes and images within their own imaginative work.
Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College
Author: Francis Ames-LewisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351899937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College’s foundation. The papers delivered at that conference and assembled in this book examine why Gresham College was established, and how its purposes and activities dovetailed with the socio-cultural life of Elizabethan and Stuart London. The first group of papers considers the social and mercantile career of Sir Thomas Gresham within the commercial centre of Elizabethan London; why he wished to establish Gresham College; and what functions he may have intended it to serve. The second group sets the academic activities of the College and its professors within the broader context of contemporary intellectual life. Papers in this group consider in what ways early Gresham professors contributed in particular to developments in the more practical disciplines such as geometry and astronomy.
Witcraft
Author: Jonathan RéePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248806
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.
Passion's Triumph Over Reason
Author: Christopher TilmouthPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199593043
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Christopher Tilmouth presents an accomplished study of Early Modern ideas of emotion, self-indulgence, and self-control in the literature and moral thought of the late 16th and 17th centuries (1580 to 1680).