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  • The Sacred History of Being

    de 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, ... Leer más

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Echoes Of Eternity

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Ancient Thought

    de 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 ... Leer más

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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    What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

    de 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 ... Leer más

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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 ... Leer más

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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 ... Leer más

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  • Apology

    de Plato ...
    The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel . Apology here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word apologia ) of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions. The ... Leer más

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  • Protagoras

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Alcibiades I

    Enriched edition. Exploring Self-Knowledge and Virtue in Ancient Greek Philosophy

    In "Alcibiades I," Plato artfully intertwines philosophical dialogue with the realms of political ambition and self-knowledge. Set as a conversation between Socrates and the youthful Alcibiades, the work delves into themes of virtue, the nature of the soul, and the essential relationship between personal integrity and governance. Through Socratic questioning, Plato's literary style exemplifies the ... Leer más

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  • History of the Great American Fortunes

    Originally published in 1910, a primary source for the business and development of American power in the nineteenth century. As Myers describes in his preface, it was the fashion in the early twentieth century to write of the multi-millionaires in an unfavorable light, as if they were all robber barons and had no social conscience. In his history he was attempting to be more realistic in his ... Leer más

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