| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 393 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever published of Williams's essays on the history of philosophy. The subjects range from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth A.D., from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche. Often one would be hard put to say which part i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Burnyeat, Myles, editor, writer of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen. Sense of the past. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006 0691124779 9780691124773 (DLC) 2005047734 (OCoLC)60349072 |
| ISBN |
9781400827107 electronic book |
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1400827108 electronic book |
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0691124779 alkaline paper |
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9780691124773 alkaline paper |
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