Classical Philosophy
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Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
By Peter AdamsonThere are also logical paradoxes, for instance the barber's paradox: imagine a barber who shaves every man in the village who doesn't shave himself. Does the barber shave himself or not? Or the liar's paradox: if I say, “What I'm now ...
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Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction
By Christopher ShieldsIt is large in comparison with a normal suburban bungalow, but rather small in comparison with Mount Everest. In its turn, Mount Everest is large in comparison with the statue of the Admiral Nelson in Trafalgar Square, but positively ...
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Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction
By Christopher Shields, Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields75 Irwin, T. and Fine, G., Aristotle: Selections, trans. with introduction, notes, and glossary (Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 1995). The glossary of Aristotelian vocabulary in [75] is excellent: well informed, usefully precise, ...
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Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps
By Peter AdamsonThis is a new kind of history which will bring philosophy to life for all readers, including those coming to the subject for the first time.
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Classical Philosophy: Socrates and his contemporaries
Socrates compares the virtue - teaching craft to the horse - training craft ( Ap . 20a6 - b5 ) and the art of medicine ( La . 189e1-190b5 ) . These crafts have subjects other than the practitioners , and their aim is the improvement of ...
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Classical Philosophy: Philosophy before Socrates
By Terence IrwinClassical Philosophy: Philosophy before Socrates