Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
8 best books like Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction (Jonathan Barnes): Poetics, De Anima (On the Soul), Helen, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Antígona González, Storia vera, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Clouds
Author | Aristotle |
ISBN | 0140446362 |
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’
In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently...
Author | Aristotle |
ISBN | 0140444718 |
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
Author | Euripides |
ISBN | 0195077105 |
Rewriting the Trojan War
28 April 2013
This is probably one of my all time favourite Greek plays, namely because Euripides takes a well known Greek epic and completely turns it on its head. I actually studied this particular play in Greek and Roman Drama and the focus of the lectures was...
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Author | Alasdair MacIntyre |
ISBN | 0268006113 |
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...
"Esta es la búsqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en México.
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Este es un ensayo y una obra y una novela y un poemario y una investigación, es escritura y reescritura, es un brutalmente honesto activismo literario que invita a reflexionar...
Author | Lucian of Samosata |
ISBN | 8879835432 |
La Storia vera, capolavoro di Luciano, viene considerata la prima narrazione fantascientifica, l'antesignana e il paradigma della funzione scientifica che supera gli spazi e i tempi logici delle conoscenze umane. Frutto di una affascinante e liberissima fantasia che si diverte a giocare con una...
Author | Alexandre Koyré |
ISBN | 0801803470 |
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of "fixed stars" gave way to that of a universe infinite in both time...
Author | Aristophanes |
ISBN | 0198143958 |
This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and extensive notes and commentary. Dover examines the two versions of the play, recounts the history of the text, and analyzes a number of problems surrounding the play's overall interpretation, including...