Author: Jonathan Barne
Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia
Keywords: philosophers, arguments, democritus, empedocles, pre, socratic
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1979-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0710088612
ISBN-13: 9780710088611

Author: Jonathan Barne
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophers, arguments, presocratic
Number of Pages: 728
Published: 1983-11-23
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0415050790
ISBN-13: 9780415050791

This volume provides a comprehensive exposition of the arguments of the Presocratics--the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition and the first masters of rational thought. While previous books have concentrated on historical and philological issues, The Presocratic Philosophers focuses on the philosophical content of Presocratic ideas and arguments, offering a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought. The book considers all the main thinkers from Thales to the Sophists and pays particular attention to Parmenides, Zeno, Anaxagoras and Democritus.

Author: M.E. Waithe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: philosophers, women, enlightenment, renaissance, volume, history, medieval
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1989-12-31
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 9024735726
ISBN-13: 9789024735723

edited by Mary Ellen Waithe Series: HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS volume: 2 The second volume in this series surveys women philosophers from the medieval through enlightenment periods. Like their male counterparts, women philosophers addressed scientific, political, moral and religious issues. Often they were also playwriters, novelists, poets, composers or politicians. Although each was famous in her day, few, other than Heloise and Teresa of Avila, are known as philosophers. They, together with Gertrude the Great, Roswitha of Gandershem and Margaret More Roper are considered only briefly in

Author: Christopher Johnso
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophers, series, derrida
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0415923840
ISBN-13: 9780415923842

Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: The Great Philosophers. Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history’s greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition from Plato to Wittgenstein. In just 64 pages, each author, a specialist on his subject, places the philosopher and his ideas into historical perspective. Each volume explains

Author: M.E. Waithe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: women, philosophers, ancient, volume, history
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1987-04-30
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9024733685
ISBN-13: 9789024733682

This first volume in a set of four chronicles the contributions women have made to that most abstract of intellectual disciplines, philosophy.

Author: A. Ridley
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophers, series, collingwood
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-07
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0415923999
ISBN-13: 9780415923996

Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: "The Great Philosophers." Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history’s greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition from Plato to Wittgenstein.In just 64 pages, each author, a specialist on his subject, places the philosopher and his ideas into historical perspective. Each volume explain

Author:
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: friendship, philosophers, selves
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0872201139
ISBN-13: 9780872201132