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Author : James Henderson Collins II
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-27
Exhortations To Philosophy written by James Henderson Collins II and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.
Iamblichus The Exhortation To Philosophy
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Author : Iamblichus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Iamblichus The Exhortation To Philosophy written by Iamblichus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Philosophy categories.
Rare work by a fourth-century philosopher is also an introduction to the study of Plato.
Exhortations To Philosophy
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Author : James Henderson Collins II
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-04
Exhortations To Philosophy written by James Henderson Collins II and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.
Iamblichus The Exhortation To Philosophy
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Author : Iamblichus
language : en
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Release Date : 1988
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Augustine And Philosophy
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Author : Phillip Cary
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012-07-10
Augustine And Philosophy written by Phillip Cary and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-10 with Philosophy categories.
Augustine of Hippo was a philosopher as well as theologian, bishop and saint. He aimed to practice philosophy not simply as an academic discipline but as a love for divine wisdom pervading everything in his life and work. To inquire into Augustine and philosophy is thus to get to the heart of his concerns as a Christian writer and uncover some of the reasons for his vast influence on Western thought. This volume, containing essays by leading Augustine scholars, includes a variety of inquiries into Augustine's philosophy in theory and practice, as well as his relation to philosophers before and after him. It opens up a variety of perspectives into the heart of Augustine's thought. He frequently reminds his readers, 'philosophy' means love of wisdom, and in that sense he expects that every worthy impulse in human life will have something philosophical about it, something directed toward the attainment of wisdom. In Augustine's own writing we find this expectation put into practice in a stunning variety of ways, as keys themes of Western philosophy and intricate forms of philosophical argument turn up everywhere. The collection of essays in this book examines just a few aspects of the relation of Augustine and philosophy, both in Augustine's own practice as a philosopher and in his interaction with others. The result is not one picture of the relation of Augustine and philosophy but many, as the authors of these essays ask many different questions about Augustine and his influence, and bring a large diversity of interests and expertise to their task. Thus the collection shows that Augustine's philosophy remains an influence and a provocation in a wide variety of settings today.
Plato S Guide To Philosophical Preparation
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Author : Marta Alexandra Heckel
language : en
Publisher: Akram
Release Date : 2023-02-19
Plato S Guide To Philosophical Preparation written by Marta Alexandra Heckel and has been published by Akram this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-19 with Education categories.
Imagine a hypothetical reader of Plato. He cannot help but notice that throughout Plato's works, there are exhortations to philosophy - powerful protreptics that praise philosophy's virtues. Philosophy can make us better skilled at thinking (Phaedrus 239b), it can make us more virtuous (Phaedo 83e), it can help us discover the secret to happiness (Republic 473e), and allow us to experience the truest pleasures of this life (Republic 586e-7a), as well as be rewarded in life after death (Gorgias 526c, Phaedrus 249c, Phaedo 114c). Philosophy, in short, is "a gift from the gods to the mortal race whose value neither has been nor will be surpassed" (Timaeus 47b).1 This reader should also notice that with this praise comes warning, and that philosophy, according to Plato, is dangerous. False beliefs are harmful to one's soul, and one main danger of practicing philosophy is acquiring false beliefs.2 More serious is the danger of corrupting one's soul to the point of preventing any further philosophizing and becoming lawless and immoral. One might think that these dangers are easily avoided, but according to Plato, this is not the case.3 There are wrong ways of doing philosophy that are so close in appearance to the right way that a person can go wrong without realizing it; someone could have good reason to see himself as a philosopher but in reality fail to be one - with harmful consequences.4 Our aspiring philosopher would therefore do well to be on guard in his pursuits
Early Greek Ethics
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Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-05-22
Early Greek Ethics written by David Conan Wolfsdorf and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-22 with Philosophy categories.
Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
In Search Of Radical Theology
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Author : John D. Caputo
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-06
In Search Of Radical Theology written by John D. Caputo and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-06 with Religion categories.
This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large. Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful argumentation, and sophisticated analysis transmitted through the lucid, accessible prose that has earned the author a wide readership of academics and non-academics alike. In tackling “radical theology,” John D. Caputo has in mind the deeper stream that courses its way through various historical and confessional theologies, upon which these theologies draw even while it disturbs them from within. They are well served by this disturbance because it keeps them on their toes. When we read about professional theologians’ losing their jobs in confessional institutions, the chances are that, by earnestly digging into what is going on in their tradition, they have hit upon radical theological rock. Unlike modernist dismissals of religion, radical theology does not debunk but re-invents the theological tradition. Radical theology, Caputo says, is a double deconstruction—of supernatural theology on the one hand and of transcendental reason on the other, and therefore of the settled distinctions between the religious and the secular. Caputo also addresses the challenge for radical theology to earn a spot in the curriculum, given that the “radical” makes it suspect among the confessional seminaries while the “theology” renders it suspect among university seminars. Journeying from the academy to contemporary American culture, In Search of Radical Theology includes a captivating presentation of radical political theology for the time of Trump. This utterly unique volume not only brings readers on an enlightening tour of Caputo’s thought but also invites us to accompany the author as he travels into intriguing new territories.
Thought A Philosophical History
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Author : Panayiota Vassilopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-05-03
Thought A Philosophical History written by Panayiota Vassilopoulou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-03 with Philosophy categories.
Of all the topics in the history of philosophy, the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked. What is it to think philosophically? How did different forms of thinking—reflection, contemplation, critique and analysis—emerge in different epochs? This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Indian and Islamic thought and the role of speculation in twentieth-century Russian philosophy. Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: • Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume • The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel • Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger • Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray • The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such, it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.
Religious And Philosophical Conversion In The Ancient Mediterranean Traditions
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-07
Religious And Philosophical Conversion In The Ancient Mediterranean Traditions written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Religion categories.
This volume explores conversion experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective.