Aristotle for Everybody (Adler Mortimer J.)(Paperback)

Aristotle for Everybody (Adler Mortimer J.)(Paperback)

Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the uncommon common sense of Aristotelian logic, presenting

Six Great Ideas (Adler Mortimer J.)(Paperback)

Each summer, Mortimer J. Adler conducts a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth, Goodness, and

Paideia Proposal (Adler Mortimer J.)(Paperback)

The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th

How to Speak How to Listen (Adler Mortimer J.)(Paperback)

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively. With over half a million copies in print of his 'living classic' How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening,

How to Read a Book (Adler Mortimer J.)(Paperback)

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: 'Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's

Physics (Aristotle)(Paperback)

For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Now, in the first translation into English since 1930, Aristotle's thought is presented accurately, with a lucid introduction and extensive notes to explain the general

Aristotle and the Virtues (Curzer Howard J.)(Paperback)

Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics--a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most contemporary commentators of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics have focused upon other matters. In contrast, Howard J

Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric (Aristotle)(Paperback)

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's 'Art of Rhetoric' has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (deliberative, judicial, and epideictic), the

Aristotle - Physics (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Aristotle: Introductory Readings (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Plutarch's Staff (Sente Yves)(Paperback)

Blake and Mortimer must help end a war ... to prepare for the next one. Blake and Mortimer s first mission together. 1944. England is still locked in a struggle to the death with Nazi Germany. But already a new threat looms among the peaks of the Himalayas. For now, though, Squadron Leader Blake,

The Art of Rhetoric (Aristotle)(Paperback)

For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked: What is a good speech? What do popular

Politics (Aristotle)(Paperback)

Poetics (Aristotle)(Paperback)

Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examine the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine

Politics (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Rhetoric (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Metaphysics (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)(Paperback)

This new edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is an accurate, readable and accessible translation of one of the world's greatest ethical works. Based on lectures Aristotle gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and

Aristotle: The Desire to Understand (Lear Jonathan)(Paperback)

This is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through all the central Aristotelian texts--selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and the

The Basic Works of Aristotle (Aristotle)(Paperback)

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon's The Basic Works of Aristotle-constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random

The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)(Paperback)

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

De Anima (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)(Paperback / softback)