Books written by Catherine Rowett
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Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers: Humanity and the Humane in Ancient Philosophy and Literature
This study shows that this is emphatically not the case and reveals a rich vein of Classical thought on the treatment of animals and the relationship between humans and their environment.
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Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates
The book includes detailed studies of the Meno, Republic and Theaetetus, and argues that the insights that Plato brings about the nature of conceptual knowledge, its importance in underpinning all other activities, and about the notion of ...
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Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates
It is rather more puzzling why scholars have been so very busy finding fault with Plato for not succeeding in a project that he ... to investigate poion esti (such as whether virtue is teachable) before first finding 'virtue itself, ...
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Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
A lively and thematic treatment of early Greek philosophy, this work discusses the invention of western philosophy - the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe.
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Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love
Few books on love can claim to make significant contributions to our understanding both of ancient views on eros and of its place in the Christian tradition. On the basis...