An intellectual history of the ancient world from the 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th cenury C.E.. It describes and evaluates ancient thought in its cultural setting, showing how it affected and was affected by that setting. The greatest philosophers and some of the lesser known all recieve careful description and evaluation.
Explores American influences not only on European television, fashions, fast food, and rock music, but also on youth organizations, literature, UFO culture, and religious faith.
Examines the perennial issues that keep science and religion at arm's length, clarifies those issues, and fits them into an historical framework - from Plato, to Aquinas, to today's thinkers. Visit our website for sample chapters!
There have been many attempts over the centuries to bring science and religion into harmony. James A. Arieti and Patrick A. Wilson survey and assess these various efforts, from Plato to Aquinas to present-day philosophers and theologians. This work examines the perennial issues that keep science and religion at arm's length, clarifies those issues ...
This is a collection of 13 essays which focus on a theme to which Crossett dedicated much of his highly interdisciplinary research. Six essays concern "Hamartia" in Greek works by Herodotus, Plato, Euripides, and others; two deal with the concept of error in the Christian theology of Boethius and Aquinas; and five examine "Hamartia" in 14th-19th ...
Despite Plato's various warnings not to do so, his dialogues have been studied as systematic philosophy since antiquity. In this controversial reassessment, James Arieti argues that they should be read primarily as works of drama rather than philosophical discourses. Analyses of 18 of the 28 dialogues are designed to allow people to see them as ...
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