Download or read book Acastos written by Iris Murdoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Witty and profound” musings on questions of art and religion from a celebrated novelist known for her philosophical explorations (Library Journal). For centuries, the works of Plato, featuring his mentor and teacher Socrates, have illuminated philosophical discussions. In Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, acclaimed philosopher, poet, and writer Iris Murdoch turns her keen eye to the value of art, knowledge, and faith, with two dramatic conversations featuring Plato and Socrates. “Art and Eros”: After witnessing a theatrical performance, Socrates and his pupils—Callistos, Acastos, Mantias, Deximenes, and Plato—undertake a quest to uncover the meaning and worth of artistic endeavors. “Above the Gods”: The celebration of a religious festival leads to a lively discussion of the gods and their place in society, as Socrates, along with several of his followers, talk about the morality of religion, wisdom, and righteousness. Told through vivid characterizations and lively discourse, Acastos is at once a “profound and satisfying” exploration of the Socratic method and an enjoyable example of theatrical writing from a Man Booker Prize–winning novelist known for her studies with Ludwig Wittgenstein and her philosophy lectures at Oxford University, as well as for such works of fiction as The Sea, The Sea and The Black Prince (Kirkus Reviews).
Download or read book The Rag Question in Paper Manufacture in Two Dialogues written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humours and Conversations of the Town Expos d in Two Dialogues The First of the Men the Second of the Women written by HUMOURS. and published by . This book was released on 1693 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhymed Plea for Tolerance In two dialogues With a prefatory dialogue By John Kenyon written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems written by Galileo and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-10-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.
Download or read book Two Comic Dialogues written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on poetry and beauty.
Download or read book Dialogues on Consciousness written by Riccardo Manzotti and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a period of many years, the celebrated English novelist Tim Parks and the Italian philosopher Riccardo Manzotti have been discussing the nature of consciousness. Not long ago, Parks suggested to his friend that they condense their exchanges “into a series of focused dialogues to set out the standard positions on consciousness, and suggest some alternatives.” Fifteen of the resultant conversations were edited by Parks and published in The New York Review of Books online—one of its most popular features ever. Now collected into one slim but thought-provoking volume, the dialogues reveal the profound scholarship of the two men. Their talks touch upon Aristotle and William James, the Higgs boson and Descartes, and include topics such as “Where Are Words?”, “The Body and Us”, “The Reality of Dreams”, “The Object of Consciousness”, and finally “Consciousness: What Is It?”. For those of us searching for insight into some of life’s most basic puzzles—how do we think? how do we perceive one another, and ourselves?—Dialogues on Consciousness will take its place alongside other classics of philosophy.
Download or read book The Principles of Deism Truly Represented In Two Dialogues Between a Sceptick and a Deist Etc By Francis Gastrell written by and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rough versus smooth and Horns versus hoofs 2 dialogues of animals written by T W. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Hume s Dialogues written by William Lad Sessions and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." --Terence Penelhum In this lively reading of David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, William Lad Sessions reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections between plot, character, rhetoric, and philosophy. The result avoids the main preoccupation of previous commentaries, namely, the attempt to establish which of the main characters speaks for Hume. Concentrating on previously unexplored questions of piety and theology, Sessions asks important questions in the philosophy of religion today--what is the nature of true religion, what is the relationship between theology and piety, and how should we actively engage with God?
Download or read book The Gatekeeper Narrative Voice in Plato s Dialogues written by Margalit Finkelberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s transmitted dialogues. The book explores the dialogues as works of literary fiction, giving special emphasis to the issue of narrative perspective.
Download or read book Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato written by Friedrich Schleiermacher and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schleiermacher s Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato written by Friedrich Schleiermacher and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dialogues Gorgias Philebus Parmenides Theaetetus Sophist Statesman written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato Gorgias Philebus Parmenides theaetetus Sophist Statesman written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato Translated Into English with Analyses and Introductions by B Jowett written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
