An Analysis of Plato's Symposium (Ellis Richard)(Paperback)

An Analysis of Plato's Symposium (Ellis Richard)(Paperback)

Plato's Symposium, composed in the early fourth century BC, demonstrates how powerful the skills of reasoning and evaluation can be. Known to philosophers for its seminal discussion of the relationship of love to knowledge, it is also a classic text for demonstrating the two critical thinking

Symposium and the Death of Socrates (Plato)(Paperback)

With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith.In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that

Symposium (Plato)(Paperback / softback)

The Symposium and the Phaedrus: Plato's Erotic Dialogues (Plato)(Paperback)

The Symposium and the Phaedrus are combined here because of their shared theme: a reflection on the nature of erotic love, the love that begins with sexual desire but can transcend that origin and reach even the heights of religious ecstasy. This reflection is carried out explicitly in the speeches

Symposium (Plato)(Paperback)

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous

An Analysis of Plato's the Republic (Orr James)(Paperback)

The Republic is Plato's most complete and incisive work - a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice exists in a real society, rather than as merely the product of an idealized philosophical construct. The work considers several competing definitions of justice, and looks

Xenophon: Symposium (Bowen A. J.)(Paperback)

This Symposium has lived so much in the shadow of the famous one by Plato, that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it gives the only alternative view of Socrates and has a wit and vigour of its own which paints a picture of a Greek society thatmakes

Plato on Love - Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic and Laws (Plato)(Paperback / softback)

An Analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Gellera Giovanni)(Paperback)

Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values at the heart of Western civilization

To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being (Irigaray Luce)(Paperback)

'According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone. Love, whose destiny is said to be unique amongst the gods and humans, perhaps embodies desire for a conjunction always in search

Measuring Walking: A Handbook of Clinical Gait Analysis (Baker Richard W.)(Paperback)

This book is a practical guide to instrumented clinical gait analysis covering all aspects of routine service provision. It reinforces what is coming to be regarded as the conventional approach to clinical gait analysis. Data capture, processing and biomechanical interpretation are all described

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change (Schlesinger W. H.)(Paperback)

Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, Fourth Edition, considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been, and are being, affected by the existence of life. Human activities in particular, from the rapid consumption of resources to the

Plato: Menexenus (Sansone David)(Paperback)

Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that conspicuously refers to events occurring after the deaths of Socrates and Aspasia, an oration that

Exploring Entrepreneurship (Blundel Richard)(Paperback)

A detailed and critical analysis of the multiple types of entrepreneurship, helping students to understand the practical skills and theoretical concepts needed to create their very own entrepreneurial venture. Split into two parts, the book provides an even balance between theory and practice

Republic (Plato)(Paperback)

An authoritative new translation of Plato's foundational work of Western philosophy The Republic is Plato's masterwork. It was written 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely read books in the world, famous for both the richness of its ideas and the virtuosity of its writing. Presented

An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice (Maggio Rodolfo)(Paperback)

The Symposium (Plato)(Paperback)

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and

Fundamentals Of Mathematical Analysis (Haggarty Rod)(Paperback / softback)

Providing students with an introduction to the fundamentals of analysis, this book continues to present the fundamental concepts of analysis in as painless a manner as possible. To achieve this aim, the second edition has made many improvements in

An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet (Garcia Christien)(Paperback)

The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis (Ogilvie Sheilagh)(Paperback)

A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed

Evolution of Insect Migration and Diapause (Dingle H.)(Paperback)

This volume is an outgrowth of a Symposium entitled 'Evolution of Escape in Space and Time' held at the XV International Congress of Entomology in Washington, D. C., USA in August, 1976. The choice of topic was prompted by recent advances in evolutionary ecology and the apparent suitability of

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

2011 Reprint of 1949 London edition.Freud, returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis, began writing this work it in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London. By September 1938 he had written three-quarters of the book, which was published in 1940, a year

An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

2010 Reprint of 1949 London edition.Freud, returning to an earlier project of providing an overview of psychoanalysis, began writing this work it in Vienna in 1938 as he was waiting to leave for London. By September 1938 he had written three-quarters of the book, which was published in 1940, a year

Introductory Real Analysis (Kolmogorov A. N.)(Paperback)

This volume in Richard Silverman's exceptional series of translations of Russian works in the mathematical science is a comprehensive, elementary introduction to real and functional analysis by two faculty members from Moscow University. It is self-contained, evenly paced, eminently readable, and