Issues in Ancient Philosophy

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1. Saving the City

   Philosopher-Kings and Other Classical Paradigms

   By Malcolm Schofield

   Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy

   Saving the City provides a detailed analysis of the attempts of ancient writers and thinkers, from Homer to Cicero, to construct and recommend political ideals of statesmanship and ruling, of the political community and of how it should be founded in justice. Malcolm Schofield debates to what...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Birth of Rhetoric

   Gorgias, Plato and their Successors

   By Robert Wardy

   Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy

   What is rhetoric?Is it the capacity to persuade? Or is it 'mere' rhetoric: the ability to get others to do what the speaker wants, regardless of what they want? This is the rhetoric of ideological manipulation and political seduction. Rhetoric is for some a distinctive mode of communication; for...

   Published March 11th 1998 by Routledge
3. Mental Conflict

   By A. W. Price

   Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy

   As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of...

   Published November 16th 1994 by Routledge
4. Ancient Concepts of Philosophy

   By Dr William Jordan, William Jordan

   Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy

   Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the context of the most recent thinking about the nature and value of philosophy. It shows that there is much to be learnt from the ancient philosophers' views of the life of a philosopher....

   Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge