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  • The Sacred History of Being

    par Thomas Yaeger ...
    The argument that the discipline of philosophy was not invented by the Greeks, but was in existence elsewhere, and as far back as the middle of the second millennium B.C.E., has been gaining traction over recent years. It is now possible to trace the detail of its presence in the civilizations around the ancient Near East.'The Sacred History of Being' collects some of the key evidence together, ... En savoir plus

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  • Man and the Divine: New Light on Man's Ancient Engagement with God and the History of Thought

    par Thomas Yaeger ...
    This is my second collection of essays on philosophy and ancient history. Like my first collection, 'Understanding Ancient Thought', it expands further on the arguments of 'The Sacred History of Being', which appeared in November 2015. A theme of my work is that abstract philosophical thought was a key component in the development of ancient Divine cult.Many of the essays deal with the question of ... En savoir plus

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  • Echoes Of Eternity

    par Thomas Yaeger ...
    Much of the cultural production of the ancient world, east and west, was based on the idea of reflecting aspects of the divine in human life and thought. Many social structures and institutions were based on this approach. The model for these things was was astronomy and the heavens, and the heavens were conceived of as a moving image of eternity, and eternity was understood to be coterminous with ... En savoir plus

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  • J. G. Frazer and the Platonic Theory of Being

    par Thomas Yaeger ...
    When he was only twenty-four years old, James Frazer won a Cambridge fellowship with an essay on the development of Plato's theory of the Forms or Ideas (eidos). In this essay he argued that there was no overarching theory of Being in Plato's mind before he embarked on the writing of his dialogues, and that consequently differences in approach and discussion apparent in his work are the result of ... En savoir plus

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  • Understanding Ancient Thought

    par Thomas Yaeger ...
    There are many puzzling things about the ancient world, since those who peopled that world lived and thought within quite different models of reality. Why did they practice the sacrifice of animals? Why did they think they could understand the future by examining the entrails and the liver of a ram? What was the logic beneath the practice of magic? Other questions are equally problematic to answer ... En savoir plus

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  • The World Until Yesterday

    What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

    par Jared Diamond ...
    **The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us?“As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage**Most of us ... En savoir plus

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  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

    The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

    One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide ... En savoir plus

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  • The Energy of Slaves

    Oil and the New Servitude

    "A robustly researched and smoothly written overview of the many challenges confronting our devotion to fossil fuels" from the author of Tar Sands ( Quill & Quire).Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now ... En savoir plus

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  • Apology - The Original Classic Edition

    par Plato Plato ...
    Apology is Platos least philosophical and most unrepresentative work but arguably his most important and is among many readers favorites, including mine. However, the fact that it is widely anthologized -- e.g., in The Trial and Death of Socrates -- makes it hard to justify a standalone, but some may be taken by the translation.The work purports to be Socrates self-defense at his trial. It is ... En savoir plus

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  • Protagoras

    par Plato ...
    The "Protagoras", like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias-'the man who had spent more upon the Sophists than all the rest of the world'-and in which the learned Hippias and the grammarian Prodicus had also shared, as well as Alcibiades and Critias, ... En savoir plus

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  • Alcibiades I

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    par Plato ...
    The First Alcibiades or Alcibiades I (Greek: Ἀλκιβιάδης αʹ) is a dialogue featuring Alcibiades in conversation with Socrates. It is ascribed to Plato, although scholars are divided on the question of its authenticity. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... En savoir plus

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  • History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I

    par Gustavus Myers ...
    "History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I" by Gustavus Myers delves into the origins and development of wealth in America, focusing on the lives of prominent industrialists and financiers. Myers meticulously examines how these fortunes were amassed, often highlighting the ethical implications and social consequences of their accumulation. The book serves as a critical analysis of capitalism, ... En savoir plus

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