Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's Timaeus

A series of eight insightful and accessible papers, derived from a conference held in Lampeter in 1998, which explore the combination of myth, science and reason in Plato's account of the world's creation and the corresponding formation of the human body. The essays include discussions of the divine craftsman who created the world and all creatures from disorder, psychic illness, the significance of music, Aristotle's interpretation of Plato's cosmological myth and comparisons between Plato's view of human evolution and that of Lucretius and Darwin. Contributors: Andrew Barker, Scott Burgess, Gordon Campbell, Christopher Gill, Lesley Dean-Jones, Jan Opsomer, M R Wright and Sergio Zedda.

Literature & Fiction

Wright, M.R.

Classics

The Classical Press of Wales

Empedocles: The Extant Fragments

This preeminent text and commentary on the surviving fragments of Empedocles has established itself as the fullest and most authoritative edition.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

The Green Blade

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

lulu.com

The Wednesday Afternoon Widows Club

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Aimed at students of classics and of philosophy who would like a taste of the subject before being committed to a full course and at those who have already started and need to find their bearings in what may seem at first a complex maze of names and schools, "Introducing Greek Philosophy" is a concise, lively, philosophically aware introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. The book begins with the Milesians in Asia Minor before moving over to the developments in the western Greek world, then focusing on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Athens, finishing with the Hellenistic schools and their arrival in Rome, where the main ideas are set out in the Latin poetry of Lucretius and the prose of Cicero.The book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from the earliest times, and looks at them individually, their development in argument and counter-argument, from the beginnings of recorded Greek history, through the various upheavals of tyrannies, democracies, oligarchies and kingships, to their introduction into Rome in the first century BC.

Introducing Greek Philosophy

History

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

The unusual approach of this text gives final honours and post-graduate students a clear and explanatory account of one of the “harder areas of physical chemistry. The author takes care to provide detailed verbal clarification of the concepts and their importance together with full explanations of the mathematical developments. Her explanations are an essential and vital feature of the text, which is scholarly, lucid and well-written with a combination of depth of coverage and clarity which helps students to work through on their own.

Fundamental Chemical Kinetics: An Explanatory Introduction to the Concepts (Horwood Series in Chemical Science)

Science & Math

Chemistry

Woodhead Publishing

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