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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “meredith trexler drees”
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  • Aesthetic Experience and Moral Vision in Plato, Kant, and Murdoch

    Looking Good/Being Good

    by Meredith Trexler Drees ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses how Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch (each in different ways) view the connection aesthetic experience has to morality. While offering an examination of Iris Murdoch’s philosophy, it analyses deeply the suggestive links (as well as essential distinctions) between Plato’s and Kant’s philosophies. Meredith Trexler Drees considers not only Iris Murdoch’s concept of unselfing, but ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Politeia

    New Readings in the History of Philosophy

    Edited by Anne J. Mamary, Meredith Trexler Drees ...
    Series series SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
    Innovative readings and creative reinterpretations of significant works in the field of ancient philosophy.In classical Greece, the word politeia in its largest sense meant the citizens' engagement with the shared project that is the lived life of their polis, city, civic society. Ancient philosophers, poets, historians, and orators constantly reflected on what this shared project should be and ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

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  • Plato

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Annas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

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  • Presocratic Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Catherine Rowett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins with the finding of the new papyrus fragment of Empedocles' poem, and uses the story of its discovery and interpretation to highlight the way our understanding of early philosophers is marked by their presentation in later ... Read more

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  • Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Annas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Pursuits of Wisdom

    Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus

    by John M. Cooper ...
    This is a major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy that recovers the long Greek and Roman tradition of philosophy as a complete way of life--and not simply an intellectual discipline. Distinguished philosopher John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems. Rather, philosophy--not just ethics but even ... Read more

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  • Socrates

    A Very Short Introduction

    by C.C.W. Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily from the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues. In this Very Short ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Ancient Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Annas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach of lively discussion and argument. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Socrates: The Philosopher Who Changed the World

    by Natasha ...
    Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens, considered the founder of Western philosophy. Known for the Socratic method—dialogue-based questioning to explore concepts—he left no writings, and his ideas are known through students like Plato. Socrates was a polarizing figure, accused of impiety and corrupting the youth. After a trial, he was sentenced to death and chose to drink hemlock rather ... Read more

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  • Socrates

    Ironist and Moral Philosopher

    by Gregory Vlastos ...
    This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of ... Read more

    $57.59 CAD

  • The Great Conversation

    Volume I: Pre-Socratics through Descartes

    by Norman Melchert, David Morrow ...
    Tracing the exchange of ideas among history's key philosophers, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Ninth Edition, provides a generous selection of excerpts from major philosophical works and makes them more easily understandable to students with lucid and engaging explanations. Extensive cross-referencing shows students how philosophers respond appreciatively or ... Read more

    $54.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato

    Edited by David Ebrey, Richard Kraut ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD