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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas NV, 2005
ISBN 10: 1930972024ISBN 13: 9781930972025
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 137 pages. ; 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 ".
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008
ISBN 10: 193097230XISBN 13: 9781930972308
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BU3 - An uncorrected page proof paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. Black Market Truth: The Aristotle Quest (A Dana McCarter Trilogy, Book I). 8"x5.5", 408 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BU3 - An uncorrected page proof paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. The Aristotle Quest, A Dana McCarter Trilogy, Book 1, Black Market Truth. 8"x5.5", 408 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, NV, 2007
ISBN 10: 1930972199ISBN 13: 9781930972193
Seller: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 98 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Near fine dust jacket.
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, NV, 2004
ISBN 10: 1930972164ISBN 13: 9781930972162
Seller: Montana Book Company, Fond du Lac, WI, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 186 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. This is a paperback copy with French flaps.
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., 2006
ISBN 10: 1930972075ISBN 13: 9781930972070
Seller: Nilbog Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2004
ISBN 10: 1930972172ISBN 13: 9781930972179
Seller: Used Esoteric Books, Fairfax, CA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hard Cover, 313 pp. {}={} Book: As New. Appears unread. DJ: Fine. Minor curling to top edge, otherwise as new.
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2006
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st edition. 8vo, 327 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, NV, 2004
ISBN 10: 1930972008ISBN 13: 9781930972001
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2004
ISBN 10: 1930972156ISBN 13: 9781930972155
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback; clean copy, very good condition. CM. Used.
Published by Parmenides Publishing 2008-12-30, Las Vegas, 2008
ISBN 10: 1930972261ISBN 13: 9781930972261
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
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Published by Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing, 2004
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Paperback. Condition: Gut. XXXIII; 186 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very good and clean. Sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Introduction: Problems of Interpretation -- 1.Difficulties in the "standard view" -- 2An alternative heuristic thesis for interpretation -- a.The essence of the dialogue -- b.Formal treatise versus genuine dialogue -- 3.The program for interpretation -- The Dramatic Context -- Dramatic situation: the trial of Socrates -- Dramatis personae: antipathy, eagerness, silence -- Theodorus: geometry and philosophy -- Young Socrates: the "test" to discover kinship -- The elder Socrates: silence and unheardness -- The stranger from Elea -- Judge and mediator -- Alienation and mediation, some clues -- The mean -- fii) The Homeric allusions: homecoming and disguise -- The stranger s Parmenidean heritage: education and irony -- The agreement to begin -- The Initial Diairesis [258b-267c] -- Formal structure of the method; the apparent accord (258b-261e) -- Young Socrates error; the value of bifurcatory diairesis (261e-264b) -- The refutation: halving and forms (261e-263b) -- Note: panhellenist partisanship -- The correction; the status of diairesis (263c-264b) -- The closing bifurcations; jokes and problems (264b-267cJ -- The Digressions on Substance and Method (267c-287b) -- A. The first digression: the myth of the divine shepherd (267c-277a) -- The stranger s objection (267c-268d) -- The manifold function of the myth (268d-274e) -- a. The logos of cosmic history -- b.The critique of traditions -- [1]Traditional images -- (i)The Homeric "shepherd of the people" and the Hesiodic -- "age of Cronus" -- (ii)Tyranny, democracy, and sophistic humanism -- (iii)Re-emergence of the "shepherd" -- (2)The stranger s critique -- (i)The initial "remembrance": the ancient despot -- (ii)"Forgetfulness": homo mensura and the new despotism -- (iii)Philosophical recollection: deus mensura and the art of statesmanship -- 3.The revisions of the initial definition (274e-277a); Young Socrates and the Academy -- B.The second digression: paradigm and the mean (277a-287b) -- 1.The paradigm of paradigm (277a-279a) -- 2.The paradigm of the weaver (279a-283a) -- 3.The stranger s preventative doctrine of essential measure (283b-287b) -- a.The diairetic revelation of essential measure (283b-285c) -- b.The purposes of the dialogue; its value as a paradigm for Young Socrates (285c-286b) -- c.The application of essential measure (286b-287b) -- The Final Diairesis (287b-311c) -- The change in the form of diairesis (287b ff.) -- The "difficulty" and the new form -- The self-overcoming of bifurcation -- The stranger s and Plato s reticence -- The first phase: the indirectly responsible arts, makers of instruments (287b-289c) -- The second phase, part one: the directly responsible arts, subaltern servants (289c-290e) -- The digression: philosophy and ordinary opinion; statesmanship and actual political order (291a-303d) -- The sole true criterion: the statesman s episteme (291a-293e) -- The ways of mediation (293e-301a) -- Statesmanship and the law: the "best" way and the "ridiculousness" of the doctrine of the many (293e-297c) -- The "imitative" polities: the "second best" way and the relative justification of the doctrine of the many (297c-301a) -- The return to the diaireses of polity: knowledge of ignorance -- and the political means (301a-303d) -- Resumption of the diairesis (second phase, part two): the true aides (303d-305e) -- The third phase: the statesman as weaver; the virtues and the mean (305e-311c) -- The application of the paradigm -- The statesman s and the stranger s realizations -- of the mean -- Epilogue: The Statesman Itself as a Mean -- Notes -- DIALECTICAL EDUCATION AND UNWRITTEN TEACHINGS IN PLATO S STATESMAN -- An orienting interpretive thesis: the Statesman as a microcosmic exhibition of the long-term process of philosophical education -- Five "unwritten teachings" -- Related passages in the Parmenides and the Philebus -- The account of participation in the Parmenides, hypothesis III -- The "gift from the gods," Philebus 16c-18d -- Peras and apeiron in Philebus 23c-27c -- Impheations of the Philebus passages for the account of participation in the Parmenides -- Forms of parts and the mathematical sense of peras -- The Great and the Small and the apeiron -- The five "unwritten teachings" in the Parmenides and the Philebus -- The Great and the Small as a case of the broader apeiron -- The five "unwritten teachings" in interplay -- The exhibition of the "unwritten teachings" in the diairesis of the fifteen kinds of art in the Statesman -- The One and its instantiation in the "single form": "care" -- The apeiron and its instantiation in the continuum traced by the series of fifteen kinds -- The list as a series -- The opposites and mid-point -- The continuum of proportions of material and spiritual -- The normative status of the ratios on the continuum the city with the fifteen kinds of art as sacred -- Implications -- Supplementary Diagrams. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.
Published by Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing, 2009
ISBN 10: 1930972296ISBN 13: 9781930972292
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. XVIII; 626 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Book block slightly blackened. Otherwise very good. - Buchblock leicht angeschwärzt. Sonst sehr gut. - The struggle to understand Plato, the Proteus of Western philosophy, continually takes new shapes. The heterogeneous masses of specialists and nonspecialists all over the world who find themselves involved in this struggle are assisted by ever better means of international communication. But the spread of better information means we must also face the problem of innumerable different, coexistent approaches. In fact, no other author or body of texts from Greco-Roman antiquity has appealed to so many different categories of readers. Anyone trying to get a serious grasp of Plato will, at some point or another, become bewildered not only by his dialogues but also by the chaos of interpretative efforts from different viewpoints or schools that surrounds them. Yet one can see trends that are leading toward clarification. For my part, I would emphasize six shifts in recent attitudes. One is the growing conviction that the Platonic dialogues should be read as philosophy in a literary (or dramatic) disguise, and certainly not merely analyzed as philosophical tracts, however much a stringent analysis of terminology and logic (especially by 20th-century British and American scholars) has contributed to our understanding of Plato's explicit reasoning. Another shift has occurred, however gradually, from the 19th-century belief that the dialogues directly reflect a development of Plato's thought and thus can be put in a chronological order to skepticism regarding our ability to reconstruct the details of development and chronology. The differentiating of "Socratic" dialogues from the rest also seems more problematic than it did some decades ago. A third shift, related to the first two, concerns the unquestioned acceptance of the fact that there was a continuous oral discussion in Plato's circle that is only partly and wryly reflected in the written dialogues. A fourth shift is implied in the recent debates about a possibly coherent doctrinal basis in the oral discussions. A fifth shift, which I consider particularly challenging today, is the serious pondering of the questions of why Plato wrote as he did and for what audiences he wrote. And a sixth overall shift can be seen in the fact that both "historicists" (who try to understand Plato in his original context) and "modernists" (who read the dialogues in terms of, and for the benefit of, modern philosophy) have begun to profit from each other's ways of thinking. ISBN 9781930972292 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 878.
Published by Las Vegas: Parmenides Pub. 2004, 2004
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ISBN 10: 1733535780ISBN 13: 9781733535786
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2008
ISBN 10: 193097227XISBN 13: 9781930972278
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of historys most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the questioncould a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one to kill?After the murder of his best friend lands Michael Igerinos in the center of the investigation as the prime suspect, he is transported back to the turn of the 20th Century, into the heart of Bohemian Paris and the sensual, hedonistic pursuits of the artists who haunted its infamous Moulin Rouge. There they are privy to the tormented genius of Toulouse-Lautrec, the twisted, visceral perspective of a young Picasso, and the wild exploits of les artistes de Montmartre.Michael and Stefanos meet at the groundbreaking Second International Congress of Mathematics in 1900, at which the greatest mathematical minds of the 20th CenturyHilbert, Poincare, Bertrand Russell, Goedelprobed the depths of mathematical mystery and challenged the very foundations on which all of mathematical theory is based.Their mutual passion for uncovering the deepest, most elusive secrets of the universe unites them and their search for mathematical discovery draws them down a dark path whose tragic end neither man could possibly foresee. Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of historys most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one to kill? Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Las Vegas, Parmenides Publishing, 2004,, 2004
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2008
ISBN 10: 1930972318ISBN 13: 9781930972315
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A secret concealed for centuries, shrouded in myth, silenced by stone.A secret that if unleashed threatens to shake the very foundation of Western civilization.A secret that can remain hidden no longer.The quest begins in Rome, where a grisly murder and a plundered tomb serve to ignite perhaps the most controversial conflict in human history. Inspector Domenico Conti is charged with the task of recovering the contents of the tomb, but as he delves deeper into the investigation, he is thrust into the center of a centuries-old struggle between truth and those who would stop at nothing to conceal it. But he is not alone.Dr. Dana McCarter, newly appointed director of the Advanced Institute for the Study of Antiquity, finds herself at the heart of the mystery when her considerable expertise in ancient Greek philosophy and her suspect involvement with the black market take her on a journey beginning in her New York University offices and sweeping around the globefrom the dark alleys of Moscow, to the rolling hills of the Italian countryside and the enigmatic relics of an ancient civilization, alive with long-kept secrets.As the search for answers leads them through a labyrinth of conspiracy and intrigue, Dana and Domenico must question everything they believe in and decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to know the truth. A secret concealed for centuries, shrouded in myth, silenced by stone. A secret that if unleashed threatens to shake the very foundation of Western civilization. A secret that can remain hidden no longer. The quest begins in Rome, where a grisly murder and a plundered tomb serve to ignite perhaps the most controversial conflict in human history. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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ISBN 10: 1930972830ISBN 13: 9781930972834
Seller: Pallas Books Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Netherlands
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paperbound, flaps, 8vo xxv+442 pp. the moving radius principle; kinesthetic awareness; phainomena; dunamis and automata; embryology; wieght and mathematical science; very good condition.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2004
ISBN 10: 1930972032ISBN 13: 9781930972032
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2012
ISBN 10: 1930972733ISBN 13: 9781930972735
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Physics 7.3 is one of the crucial texts in Aristotle's theory of change, in which he deals with the question of what alteration is and what it is not. Aristotle discusses change in various parts of his writings, and seems to provide a broad range of notions: movement and change of place, alteration in aspect and form, temporal change, variation in the way a given being is perceived, the change in relationship between beings, qualitative and accidental alterations.This volume presents the results of the ESAP-HYELE conference on ""Aristotle, Physics 7.3: What is Alteration?"", which took place in Vitznau, Switzerland in 2007. The contributors are part of a team of Aristotelian scholars that first came together in 1995, and have since been meeting every spring. The purpose of their gatherings was to read and interpret line by line a short, but important chapter of Aristotle's works. In this way, attention was focused on key texts of particular exegetic and theoretical interest. Each session started with the presentation of a translation and a first analysis of the main problems; these then became the subject of an intense debate which illustrates the different schools of thought and methodological approaches.This volume sets out to provide the reader with new insights into Aristotle's: Physics 7.3. Physics 7.3 is one of the crucial texts in Aristotle's theory of change, in which he deals with the question of what alteration is and what it is not. This volume presents the results of the ESAP-HYELE conference on Aristotle, Physics 7.3: What is Alteration? This volume sets out to provide the reader with new insights into Aristotle's: Physics 7.3. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2006
ISBN 10: 1930972091ISBN 13: 9781930972094
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Prior to the publication of Platos Late Ontology in 1983, there was general agreement among Plato scholars that the theses attributed to Plato in Book A of Aristotles Metaphysics can not be found in the dialogues. Platos Late Ontology presented a textually based argument that in fact these theses appear both in the Philebus and in the second part of the Parmenides. The pivotal point of the argument is a number of synonyms for the expressions used by Aristotle in reporting Platos views, found in the Greek commentators on Aristotle's writing during the 3rd to the 6th Centuries A.D. These synonyms are also used by Plato himself in discussing the theses in question.The present book is a reprint of Platos Late Ontology along with a recent article showing that a subset of these theses can also be found in the section of measurement appearing in the middle of the Statesman. The argument to this effect is an extension of that in Platos Late Ontology, but is supported by a much expanded list of synonyms from the Greek commentators. The appearance of the theses in question in the Statesman augments the original argument for their presence in the Parmenides and the Philebus. This is a reprint of Platos Late Ontology along with a recent article showing that a subset of these theses can also be found in the section of measurement appearing in the middle of the Statesman. The argument to this effect is an extension of that in Platos Late Ontology, but is supported by a much expanded list of synonyms from the Greek commentators. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2005
ISBN 10: 1930972016ISBN 13: 9781930972018
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plato's metaphysics, theology, epistemology, psychology, and physics. New interpretations are given to Plato's views on the role and characteristics of his craftsman God, the nature and status of Forms, the nature of time and eternity, the status and nature of space and the phenomenal realm, and the nature of and relations between reason, souls, bodies, and motion. The book is critically sympathetic to the Platonic project, at least to the extent that it argues that many (though not all) features of the Platonic cosmology are more intelligible and coherent than usually supposed by critics. It defends the view that for Plato God makes the world in the way that a carpenter cuts a board to be exactly a yard long - by applying a yard stick to the board and removing the excess wood. This view of a making requires that there be standards or measures that exist independently both of the agent who creates and the world on which he works. These standards are Plato's Forms. Transcendent Forms cannot be excised from the Platonic metaphysics as many modern critics have been trying to do in an attempt to make Plato respectable by today's criteria of philosophical decency. This work presents a revised and updated edition of the author's 1985 book The Platonic Cosmology (E.J. Brill, Leiden) together with four revised and updated essays by the author on Plato's metaphysics, and a wholly new essay, ""Extensions,"" which expands the themes of the book into wider philosophical contexts. Presentsis a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analysed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plato's metaphysics, theology, epistemology, psychology, and physics. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2007
ISBN 10: 1930972040ISBN 13: 9781930972049
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and unconventional interpretation. Here is a new translation of this important late Platonic dialogue, with a comprehensive commentary that reverses the dominant trends in the scholarship of the last fifty years. The Sophist is shown to be not a dry exposition of doctrine, but a rich exercise in dialectic, which reveals both the Eleatic roots of Platonic metaphysics and Platos criticism of unrevised Eleaticism as a theoretical underpinning for sophistry. The Sophist is presented now not as an artefact of the intellectual past or precursor of late 20th century philosophical theories, but as living philosophy. In a new translation and interpretation, this late dialogue is shown to be a defense of not a departure from Platos metaphysics. The book is intended to provide a complete interpretation of Plato's Sophist as a whole. Central to the methodology adopted is the assumption that all elements of the dialogue to be understood must be understood in the context of the dialogue as a whole and in its relation to other works in the Platonic corpus. Three main points are argued: 1) the dialogue does not present a definitive or positive doctrine of the late Plato, but has the structure of a reductio ad absurdum; 2) the figure of the sophist is employed to critically examining the metaphysics of Parmenides. While acknowledging a core of metaphysical insight in Parmenides, the argument implies that, by failing to account for resemblance, Eleaticism implies an inadequate theory of relations, which makes impossible an adequate understanding of essence. Consequently, Eleaticism unrevised can be taken as the philosophical underpinning for the antithesis of philosophy, lending legitimacy to sophistry; 3) the criticism constitutes an indirect argument for Platonic metaphysics, which has roots in Eleaticism, that is, for the Theory of Forms. The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unravelled in this new and unconventional interpretation. This is a new translation of this important late Platonic dialogue, with a comprehensive commentary. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2017
ISBN 10: 1930972377ISBN 13: 9781930972377
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the souls fall from intelligible realityit is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the souls creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image.Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals, and poses unique challenges: Plotinus nowhere identifies his opponents by name, he does not set out their doctrines in any great detail, and his arguments are frequently elliptical. The detailed commentary provides a guide through these difficulties, making Plotinus meandering train of thought in this important treatise accessible to the reader. How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality - it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2010
ISBN 10: 1930972202ISBN 13: 9781930972209
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Platos Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Hermann's Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike. This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Heeding the challenge of balancing intelligibility with faithfulness - while maintaining sufficient consistency to allow the discernment of technical terms - great pains have been taken to secure both accuracy and accessibility. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2017
ISBN 10: 1930972393ISBN 13: 9781930972391
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ennead VI.8 gives us access to the living mind of a long dead sage as he tries to answer some of the most fundamental questions we in the modern world continue to ask: are we really free when most of the time we are overwhelmed by compulsions, addictions, and necessities, and how can we know that we are free? Can we trace this freedom through our own agency to the gods, to the Soul, Intellect, and the Good? How do we know that the world is meaningful and not simply the result of chance or randomness?Plotinus' On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One is a groundbreaking work that provides a new understanding of the importance and nature of free human agency. It articulates a creative idea of agency and radical freedom by showing how such terms as desire, will, self-dependence, and freedom in the human ethical sphere can be genuinely applied to Intellect and the One while preserving the radical inability of all metaphysical language to express anything about God or gods. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2005
ISBN 10: 1930972059ISBN 13: 9781930972056
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The problem of the one and the many is central to ancient Greek philosophy, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of it in the Metaphysics. This omission is all the more surprising because the Metaphysics is one of our principal sources for thinking that the problem is central and for the views of other ancient philosophers on it. The Central Books of the Metaphysics are widely recognized as the most difficult portion of a most difficult work. Halper uses the problem of the one and the many as a lens through which to examine the Central Books. What he sees is an extraordinary degree of doctrinal cogency and argumentative coherence in a work that almost everyone else supposes to be some sort of patchwork. Rather than trying to elucidate Aristotle's doctrines-most of which have little explicitly to do with the problem, Halper holds that the problem of the one and the many, in various formulations, is the key problematic from which Aristotle begins and with which he constructs his arguments. Thus, exploring the problem of the one and the many turns out to be a way to reconstruct Aristotle's arguments in the Metaphysics. Armed with the arguments, Halper is able to see Aristotle's characteristic doctrines as conclusions. These latter are, for the most part, supported by showing that they resolve otherwise insoluble problems. Moreover, having Aristotle's arguments enables Halper to delimit those doctrines and to resolve the apparent contradiction in Aristotle's account of primary ousia, the classic problem of the Central Books. Although there is no way to make the Metaphysics easy, this very thorough treatment of the text succeeds in making it surprisingly intelligible. Halper's One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: The Central Books was originally published in 1989 by Ohio State University Press. The reprint of this work includes a new Introduction by the author. Further, The Central Books is part of a Trilogy whose two other as of yet unpublished works Alpha-Delta and Iota-Nu will be released by Parmenides Publishing in 2008 and in 2014 respectively. This book is part of a larger study of the problem of the one and the many in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Although this portion can be read and understood on its own, some remarks about the contents of the two sister volumes will be helpful. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Parmenides Publishing, Las Vegas, 2009
ISBN 10: 1930972210ISBN 13: 9781930972216
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. ristotle ultimately undermines the problem of the one and many, but understanding how he treats the problem provides a surprising amount of cogency and coherence to Aristotle's often difficult text and shows why he thinks a science of metaphysics exists. This book is part of a larger study of the problem of the one and the many in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Although this portion can be read and understood on its own, some remarks about the contents of the two sister volumes will be helpful. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.