Roger Huard invites readers to explore Plato's Myth of the Cave, which is central to his magnum opus on political philosophy, The Republic. The primary goal of this exploration is to arrive at an understanding of Plato's political ideas...
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Author:Huard, Roger L.Summary: - Author:Zhao, YuKongSummary:
Today, many American families are facing the economic fallout of global competition, a decline in education quality, the potential reduction of Social Security and Medicare benefits, and high oil prices. The answer to these problems can...
- Author:Blaut, James M.Summary:
The Colonizer's Model of the World challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time concerning world history and world geography. This is the doctrine of European diffusionism, the belief that the rise of Europe to...
- Author:De Botton, AlainSummary:
Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.
- Author:K., NoraSummary:
Eleven-year-old Nora K. received Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World as a birthday present, and in it she read about Plato’s theory of ideas. One problem especially intrigued her: What about the platonic idea of the dinosaur? Ideas are...
- Author:Desgagne, Michelle GSummary:
"A cycling accident became the Demarcation Point-of-no-Return ... Michelle makes no apologies for Lifestyle or Philosophy instead, she offers her Story, a Raw but Real roller-coaster ride that will challenge all your definitions of...
- Author:Gottlieb, AnthonySummary:
In this landmark study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of our great thinkers, from the pre-Socratic age to the Renaissance, providing a fresh and vivid portrait of the human drive for understanding.
- Author:Danowski, DeborahSummary:
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have...
- Author:MenciusSummary:
This book offers a selection from the translation of the full work, including the most frequently studied passages and covering the work's major themes. It also includes selected passages from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi, an...
- Author:Somerville, MargaretSummary:
Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning...
- Author:Zwicky, JanSummary:
The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Jan Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations, providing examples of such...
- Author:PlatoSummary:
Presents the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens' decline: the trial and condemnation of Socrates.
- Author:Pourriol, OllivierSummary:
Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better at everything. In the realm of love, what could be less seductive than...
- Author:Krznaric, RomanSummary:
Krznaric reveals six practical ways we can retrain our brains to think of the long view. His aim is to shift our allegiance from this generation to all humanity, to save our planet and our future.
- Author:Gimbel, StevenSummary:
Philosophers have long puzzled over the nature of space, time, and matter. These inquiries led to the flowering of physics with the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century. Since then, the spectacular success of modern physics might...
- Author:Marshall, JosephSummary:
A gifted storyteller and historian and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, Joseph M. Marshall III, has dedicated his entire life to spiritual fulfillment and to teaching others the essence of Lakota wisdom. In The Lakota Way ,...
- Author:Lilburn, TimSummary:
This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn’s decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to...
- Author:Durant, Will, Durant, ArielSummary:
The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful eleven-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound...
- Author:Santayana, GeorgeSummary:
George Santayana's renowned work of moral philosophy outlines his vision of the ideal life.Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana's The Life of Reason stands as one of the most...
- Author:Poulton, RachelSummary:
If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Including accessible primers on: - The early Ancient Greek philosophers and the...
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