Download or read book Philosophy manual a South South perspective written by Chanthalangsy, Phinith and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De Regno written by Thomas Aquinas and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by Aquinas begins by discussing different types of political systems, using the classical classifications. Only rule which is directed "towards the common good of the multitude is fit to be called kingship," he argues. Rule by one man who "seeks his own benefit from his rule and not the good of the multitude subject to him" is called a "tyrant." He argues that "Just as the government of a king is the best, so the government of a tyrant is the worst," maintaining that rule by a single individual is the most efficient for accomplishing either good or evil purposes. He then proceeds to discuss "how provision might be made that the king may not fall into tyranny," stressing education and noting that "government of the kingdom must be so arranged that opportunity to tyrannize is removed." He then proceeds to consider what honor is due to kings, to discuss the appropriate qualities of a king, and to make some points on founding and maintaining a city. Principium autem intentionis nostrae hinc sumere oportet, ut quid nomine regis intelligendum sit, exponatur.
Download or read book thique Nicomaque Aristote written by Aristote and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour les élèves de terminales, les étudiants en DEUG et prépas scientifiques. Une collection qui se veut un support pour l'étude de textes en donnant la vue d'ensemble indispensable pour comprendre les enjeux philosophiques des oeuvres et les concepts qu'elles dégagent.
Download or read book The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean written by Nicomachus (of Gerasa.) and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Greek thought, the musical scale discovered by the philosopher Pythagoras was seen as a utopian model of the harmonic order behind the structure of the cosmos and human existence. Through proportion and harmony, the musical scale bridges the gap between two extremes. It encapsulates the most fundamental pattern of harmonic symmetry and demonstrates how the phenomena of nature are inseparably related to one another through the principle of reciprocity. Because of these relationships embodied in its structure, the musical scale was seen as an ideal metaphor of human society by Plato and other Pythagorean thinkers, for it is based on the cosmic principles of harmony, reciprocity, and proportion, whereby each part of the whole receives its just and proper share. This book is the first ever complete translation of The Manual of Harmonics by the Pythagorean philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa (second century A.D.) published with a comprehensive, chapter-by-chapter commentary. It is a concise and well-organized introduction to the study of harmonics, the universal principles of relation embodied in the musical scale. Also included is a remarkable chapter-by-chapter commentary by the translator, Flora Levin, which makes this work easily accessible to the reader today. Dr. Levin explains the principles of Pythagorean harmony, provides extensive background information, and helps to situate Nicomachus' thought in the history of ideas. This important work constitutes a valuable resource for all students of ancient philosophy, Western cosmology, and the history of music.
Download or read book Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans written by Kent Emery and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines depictions of Christ in the writings and art of the medieval Dominicans. The multidisciplinary essays provide perspectives on the life and thought of the Order of the Preachers, focusing on the role of Christ within the devotion and imagination of the Order.
Download or read book The Arabic Plotinus written by Peter Adamson and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called "Theology of Aristotle" is a translation of the Enneads of Plotinus, the most important representative of late ancient Platonism. It was produced in the 9th century CE within the circle of al-Kindī, one of the most important groups for the early reception of Greek thought in Arabic. In part because the "Theology" was erroneously transmitted under Aristotle's authorship, it became the single most important conduit by which Neoplatonism reached the Islamic world. It is referred to by such thinkers as al-Fārābī, in an attempt to demonstrate the agreement between Platonism and Aristotelianism, Avicenna, who wrote a set of comments on the text, and later on thinkers of Safavid Persia including Mullā Ṣadrā. Yet the "Theology" is not just a translation. It may in fact more accurately be described as a creative paraphrase, which takes frequent liberties with the source text and even includes whole paragraphs' worth of new material. Adamson's book offers a philosophical interpretation of the changes introduced in the Arabic version. It is argued that these changes were in part intended to show the relevance of Plotinus' thought for contemporary Islamic culture, for instance by connecting the Neoplatonist theory of the First Principle to theological disputes within Islam over the status of God's attributes. At the same time the paraphrase reflects a tendency to harmonize the various strands of Greek thought, so that a critique by Plotinus of Aristotle's theory of the soul is subtly changed into a defense of Aristotle's theory against a possible misinterpretation. The upshot, or so Adamson argues, is that the "Theology" needs to be read as an original philosophical work in its own right, and understood within the context of the ʿAbbāsid era.
Download or read book Premi res le ons sur l thique Nicomaque d Aristote written by Arnaud Guigue and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1997-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les livres VIII et IX de l’Éthique à Nicomaque portent sur l’amitié, de celle qui se noue entre un père et son fils, de celle qui s’exerce entre camarades, de celle encore qui unit les sages. L’amitié, au cœur de la réflexion morale ! Le but de ces « Premières leçons » est de donner des clés pour comprendre la singularité de cette sagesse pratique, art de goûter la vie. Le lecteur trouvera ici une introduction originale à l’éthique aristotélicienne dont il pourra découvrir l’actualité ! Étonnante.
Download or read book The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis written by Joseph Canning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-scale study of the political thought of the Italian jurist, Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400).
Download or read book Cartesian Theodicy written by Z. Janowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought. In his Cartesian Theodicy, Janowski demonstrates that Descartes' epistemological problems are merely rearticulations of theological questions. For example, Descartes' attempt to define the role of God in man's cognitive fallibility is a reiteration of an old argument that points out the incongruity between the existence of God and evil, and his pivotal question `whence error?' is shown here to be a rephrasing of the question `whence evil?' The answer Descartes gives in the Meditations is actually a reformulation of the answer found in St. Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio and the Confessions. The influence of St. Augustine on Descartes can also be detected in the doctrine of eternal truths which, within the context of the 17th-century debates over the question of the nature of divine freedom, caused Descartes to ally himself with the Augustinian Oratorians against the Jesuits. Both in his Cartesian Theodicy as well as his Index Augustino-Cartesian, Textes et Commentaire Janowski shows that the entire Cartesian metaphysics can - and should - be read within the context of Augustinian thought.
Download or read book Le on sur L thique Nicomaque d Aristote written by Jacques Ricot and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2001 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doit-on s'aimer soi-même par-dessus tout ? L'homme heureux a-t-il besoin de beaucoup d'amis ? A quelles conditions peut-on rompre une amitié ? Ces questions, comme toutes celles qui sont traitées par Aristote dans sa réflexion sur l'amitié, se rattachent à l'expérience la plus commune. Le philosophe envisage les multiples formes de l'amitié et analyse finement, par exemple, la bienveillance et la bienfaisance, l'amitié amoureuse et l'amitié conjugale, la relation fraternelle et le lien entre camarades. Cet ouvrage écrit par Jacques Ricot, professeur agrégé de philosophie en classes préparatoires scientifiques, veut guider les pas du lecteur des livres VIII et IX de l'Ethique à Nicomaque en levant les obscurités du texte tout en maintenant ouverte sa problématique philosophique.
Download or read book Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science written by Andrea Strazzoni and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into account the ways in which the disciplines of logic and metaphysics became functional to the justification and reflection on the conceptual premises and the methods of natural philosophy, changing their traditional roles as art of reasoning and as science of being. This transformation took place as a result of two factors. First, logic and metaphysics (which included rational theology) were used to grant the status of indubitable knowledge of natural philosophy. Second, the debates internal to Cartesianism, as well as the emergence of alternative philosophical world-views (such as those of Hobbes, Spinoza, the experimental science and Newtonianism) progressively deprived such disciplines of their foundational function, and they started to become forms of reflection over given scientific practices, either Cartesian, experimental, or Newtonian.
Download or read book Ethique Nicomaque livres VIII et IX written by Aristotle and published by Ellipses Marketing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'amitié n'est pas uniquement un motif littéraire sentimental et touchant. Elle n'est pas non plus seulement un thème de prédilection pour les moralistes en quête de considérations édifiantes. L'amitié occupe une place centrale dans la vie humaine et c'est pour cette raison qu'elle constitue un objet philosophique à part entière. Dans les livres VIII et IX de l'Éthique à Nicomaque, Aristote lui restitue son épaisseur conceptuelle en procédant à son étude systématique. Et l'analyse de cette notion conduit le Philosophe aussi bien à des problèmes liés à l'intersubjectivité qu'à des questions de science politique et d'économie. Comprendre pour quelles raisons et de quelles façons les hommes sont liés les uns aux autres, voilà l'objectif, pour le moins ambitieux, que se fixe ce texte aussi complexe que rigoureux.
Download or read book Character Virtue Theories and the Vices written by Christine McKinnon and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the question posed by virtue theories, namely, “what kind of person should I be?” provides a more promising approach to moral questions than do either deontological or consequentialist moral theories where the concern is with what actions are morally required or permissible. It does so both by arguing that there are firmer theoretical foundations for virtue theories, and by persuasively suggesting the superiority of virtue theories over deontological and consquentialist theories on the question of explaining morally bad behavior. Virtue theories can give a richer account by appealing to the kinds of dispositions that make certain bad choices appear attractive. This richer account also exposes a further advantage of virtue theories: they provide the best kinds of motivations for agents to become better persons.
Download or read book The Book of the Treasure written by Brunetto Latini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Book of Causes written by Dennis J. Brand and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LECTURE DU COMMENTAIRE DE THOMAS D AQUIN SUR LE TRAIT DE L ME D ARISTOTE written by Guy-françois Delaporte and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Traité de l'âme d'Aristote joue, dans l'histoire de la philosophie, un rôle crucial. Assumant toute la conception de la vie et de l'homme, depuis l'aube de la réflexion jusqu'au déclin de la Grèce, il est la source des plus riches développements de l'anthropologie musulmane et chrétienne du Moyen Âge. L'intention de ce livre est de retrouver la perspective d'ensemble du traité.
Download or read book Commentary on Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by St. Augustine's Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Each volume has the full text of Aristotle with Bekker numbers, followed by the commentary of St. Thomas, cross-referenced using an easily accessible mode of referring to Aristotle in the Commentary. Each volume is beautifully printed and bound using the finest materials. All copies are printed on acid-free paper and Smyth sewn. They will last.
