The Sense of the Past : : Essays in the History of Philosophy /

The Sense of the Past : : Essays in the History of Philosophy / / Bernard Williams; Myles Burnyeat.

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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 eve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Williams, Bernard,
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Burnyeat, Myles,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / Williams, Patricia
  • Introduction / Burnyeat, Myles
  • Greek: General
  • ONE. The Legacy of Greek Philosophy
  • TWO. The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics
  • THREE. Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology
  • Socrates and Plato
  • FOUR. Pagan Justice and Christian Love
  • FIVE. Introduction to Plato's Theaetetus
  • SIX. Plato against the Immoralist
  • SEVEN. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic
  • EIGHT. Plato's Construction of Intrinsic Goodness
  • NINE. Cratylus' Theory of Names and Its Refutation
  • TEN. Plato: The Invention of Philosophy
  • Aristotle
  • ELEVEN. Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts
  • TWELVE. Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch
  • THIRTEEN. Justice as a Virtue
  • FOURTEEN. Hylomorphism
  • Descartes
  • FIFTEEN.Descartes' Use of Scepticism
  • SIXTEEN. Introductory Essay on Descartes' Meditations
  • SEVENTEEN. Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy
  • Hume
  • EIGHTEEN. Hume on Religion
  • Sidgwick
  • NINETEEN. The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics
  • Nietzsche
  • TWENTY. Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology
  • TWENTY-ONE. Introduction to The Gay Science
  • TWENTY-TWO. "There are many kinds of eyes"
  • TWENTY-THREE. Unbearable Suffering
  • R. G. Collingwood
  • TWENTY-FOUR. An Essay on Collingwood
  • Wittgenstein
  • TWENTY-FIVE. Wittgenstein and Idealism
  • Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications

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