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The sense of the past : essays in the history of philosophy /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Burnyeat, Myles (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.