Classical Thought

Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : History of Western Philosophy
ISBN 13 : 0192891774
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Thought written by Terence Irwin and published by History of Western Philosophy. This book was released on 1989 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Irwin's Classical Thought provides a lucid examination of the major philosophers and schools in the 1100 years or so from Homer to Saint Augustine.

Author : Jacques Brunschwig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002616
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought written by Jacques Brunschwig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought, investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the possibilities of knowing. 65 color illustrations. Maps.

Author : Zehou Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000651134
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Classical Chinese Thought written by Zehou Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li Zehou is widely regarded as one of China’s most influential contemporary thinkers. He has produced influential theories of the development of Chinese thought and the place of aesthetics in Chinese ethics and value theory. This book is the first English-language translation of Li Zehou’s work on classical Chinese thought. It includes chapters on the classical Chinese thinkers, including Confucius, Mozi, Laozi, Sunzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi, and also on later eras and thinkers such as Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty and the Song-Ming Neo-Confucians. The essays in this book not only discuss these historical figures and their ideas, but also consider their historical significance, and how key themes from these early schools reappeared in and shaped later periods and thinkers. Taken together, they highlight the breadth of Li Zehou’s scholarship and his syncretic approach—his explanations of prominent thinkers and key periods in Chinese intellectual history blend ideas from both the Chinese and Western canons, while also drawing on contemporary thinkers in both traditions. The book also includes an introduction written by the translator that helpfully explains the significance of Li Zehou’s work and its prospects for fostering cross-cultural dialogue with Western philosophy. A History of Chinese Classical Thought will be of interest to advanced students and scholars interested in Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and Chinese intellectual and social history.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The modern reconstruction of classical thought: Talcott Parsons written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808614
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons written by Jeffrey Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.

Author : Russell McCormmach
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674624610
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist written by Russell McCormmach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged the classical world picture of physics and are looking forward to observational tests of Einstein's new theory of relativity as well as the creation of a quantum mechanics of the atom. It is a time of both apprehension and hope. In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes. He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres. In Drude's shocking and unexpected suicide, we see reflected Jakob's own bewilderment and loss of bearings as his once secure world comes to an end in the horrors of the war and in the cultural fragmentation wrought by twentieth-century modernism. His attempt to come to terms with himself, with his life in science, and with his spiritual legacy will affect deeply everyone who cares about the fragile structures of civilization that must fall before the onrush of progress.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808673
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.

Author : CHARLES NORRIS. COCHRANE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033363737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CHRISTIANITY AND CLASSICAL CULTURE written by CHARLES NORRIS. COCHRANE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter J. Steinberger
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872205123
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in Classical Political Thought written by Peter J. Steinberger and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thought, this anthology has at its core generous selections from Plato and Aristotle. Building on this core is a sufficiently diverse and substantial selection of texts from other writers--including Thucydides and the Sophists--to allow for inquiry into the variety of Classical Greek approaches to politics, as well as into Roman, Medieval and Renaissance developments of the classical tradition. Preeminent translations and the editor's own thoughtful introductions further distinguish this unique anthology.

Author : S. Todd Lowry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400932553
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pre-Classical Economic Thought written by S. Todd Lowry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholars invited to contribute the primary essays for this collection were given three mandates. The first was to survey the contemporary research in their assigned fields and to provide a bibliography that would give any interested scholar an entree into the literature. The second was to develop their own interpretive perspective on the economic literature of their assigned period. The third, and perhaps the most difficult, was to be very brief and concise. In a project of this type it would be difficult to extrapolate themes or evolutionary sequences that run through the literature over the two thousand years spanned by this survey. To some degree, the invited commentators provide a fund of suggestions that will stimulate interested readers to pursue this line of synthesis for themselves. The editor of this collection did not even entertain the idea of trying to coordinate the presentations and commentaries of this intellectually erudite and diverse group of scholars into agreed upon lines of interpretation. There is enough material, however, to provide a reference base for the interested scholar who desires to follow particular ideas from period to period.