| Description |
xxii, 393 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Bernard Williams, complete philosophical publications": pages 381-393. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The legacy of Greek philosophy -- The women of Trachis : fictions, pessimism, ethics -- Understanding Homer : literature, history, and ideal anthropology -- Pagan justice and Christian love -- Introduction to Plato's Theaeteus -- Plato against the immoralist -- The analogy of city and soul in Plato's Republic -- Plato's construction of intrinsic goodness -- Cratylus' theory of names and its refutation -- Plato : The invention of philosophy -- Acting as the virtuous person acts -- Aristotle on the good : a formal sketch -- Justice as a virtue -- Hylomorphiam -- Descartes' use of skepticism -- Introductory essay on Descartes' Meditations -- Descartes and the historiography of philosophy -- Hume on religion -- The point of view of the universe : Sidgwick and the ambitions of ethics -- Nietzsche's minimalistic moral psychology -- Introduction to The gay science -- "There are many kinds of eyes" -- Unbearable suffering -- An essay on Collingwood -- Wittgenstein and idealism. |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy. |
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History. |
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Whitman College -- Memorial bookplates -- Class of 1945. |
| Added Author |
Burnyeat, Myles.
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| ISBN |
0691124779 alkaline paper |
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9780691124773 alkaline paper |
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