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Aristotle on Memory

Aristotle on Memory

Richard Sorabji

For this edition, Sorabji has also provided a substantial new introduction taking into account scholarly debates over the intervening thirty years, particularly those over the role of mental images in the imagination. “Sorabji has ...
Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, ...

Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, ...

Richard Sorabji

Cornelia Sorabji was the first Indian female lawyer.
Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, ...

Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, ...

Richard Sorabji

Richard Sorabji presents a brilliant exploration of the history of our understanding of the self, which has remained elusive and mysterious throughout the spectacular development of human knowledge of the outside world.
Aristotle on memory

Aristotle on memory

Richard Sorabji

For this edition, Sorabji has also provided a substantial new introduction taking into account scholarly debates over the intervening thirty years, particularly those over the role of mental images in the imagination.
Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values

Gandhi and the Stoics: Modern Experiments on Ancient Values

Richard Sorabji

Richard Sorabji, continuing his exploration of the many connections between South Asian thought and ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, brings together in this volume the unlikely pairing of Mahatma Gandhi and the Stoics, uncovering a host ...
Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their ...

Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their ...

Richard Sorabji

by. Ulocrino. Donald. R. Morrison. This charming small Renaissance plaquette is also rather mysterious.1 The only precise fact we know is that it was produced by the same hand as certain other plaquettes, some of which are signed with the ...
Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory

Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory

Richard Sorabji

'Original and important ... The book relates Aristotle's discussions to both the contemporary debates on determinism and causation and the ancient ones.
Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their ...

Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their ...

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This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. First published in 1990, the collection is now brought up to date with a new introduction by Richard Sorabji.
Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their ...

Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their ...

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This book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. First published in 1990, the collection is now brought up to date with a new introduction by Richard Sorabji.
Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory

Necessity, Cause and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theory

Richard Sorabji

It is especially detailed on Stoic arguments about necessity . . . and on the social and legal background to Aristotle’s thought.”—Choice “It is difficult to convey the extraordinary richness of this book. . .
Rationality as Virtue: Towards a Theological Philosophy

Rationality as Virtue: Towards a Theological Philosophy

Lydia Schumacher

Nicholas E. Lombardo, The Logic of Desire, 38: passions are passive and active; they receive input and guide the will. Richard Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind, 29: passions involve two distinctive value judgments, regarding a good or bad ...
The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: Physics

The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: Physics

Richard Sorabji

Physics in Neoplatonist thought, the subject which occupies the second volume of this sourcebook, was innovative: the world of space and time was causally ordered by a nonspatial, nontemporal world, and this view required original thinking
Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate

Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate

Richard Sorabji

Paul Vander Waerdt, 'Philosophical influence on Roman jurisprudence? The case of Stoicism and natural law', Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2.36.6, 1992. Paul Vander Waerdt, The Theory of Natural Law in Antiquity, Ithaca,  ...
Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Richard Middleton, the Man and His Work

Henry Savage

Richard Middleton . . . Frontispiece Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppé. Facing page Richard Middleton at the Age of 7 . . 10 Richard Middleton in Fancy Dress . . 28 A Bohemian Gathering . . . . 36 Sketch by Herbert Garland. Richard Middleton at ...
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and ...

Richard S. Newman

Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman ... —Richard Allen, “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” With his coauthorship of the yellow-fever pamphlet, Richard ...
New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, University of Louisville Kentucky Richard Wilson, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton, Richard Dutton. First published 1992 by Longman Group Limited Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, ...
The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third

Alice Ida Perry Wood

In 1610, Robert Niccol's new edition of The Mirror for Magistrates appeared, in which there were two poems on Richard the Third, The Two Princes, and Richard III, the last to replace Segar's poem, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run

Rob Stone

... Richard Linklater Cinematography: Richard Linklater Editor: Richard Linklater Main Cast: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Daniel Kratochvil, Linda Finney, Tracy Crabtree, Linda Levine, Lisa Schiebold, Erin MCafée, Denise Montgomery,  ...
Richard III

Richard III

Richard Andersen

Richard Andersen. Berger, Harry Jr. "Conscience and Complicity in Richard III," in Richard III, edited by Thomas Cartelli. New York: Norton, 2009. Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Programming of Life

Programming of Life

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89, section 7, p3. Dawkins (Richard), River Out of Eden,1995, p83. Dawkins (Richard), The Blind Watchmaker, 1996B. Dawkins (Richard), Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996C.
The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: Language and literature

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B78 1991 Burton, Richard D. E., Baudelaire and the Second Republic : writing and revolution / Richard D.E. Burton. Oxford [England] .... PQ2230.S84 Stowe, Richard S. Alexandre Dumas (pere) / by Richard S. Stowe. Boston : Twayne ...
Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Through the Eyes of Darwin and Genesis:

Bill Nielsen

Dawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder. New York: Ecco, 2013. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. London: Penguin, 1986. Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. New York: First Mariner Books, 2008. Dawkins, Richard. The Greatest ...
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction Richard Toronto . Interview by author. Telephone. August 17, 1983. Yerxa, Richard. Interview by author. Telephone. 2008. Letters Ackerman, Forrest J. Letter to ...
Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Probability's Nature and Nature's Probability - Lite: A ...

Donald E. Johnson

Dawkins (Richard), The Selfish Gene, 1976. Dawkins (Richard),”The Necessity of Darwinism,” New Scientist: 94, 4/15/82, p130. Dawkins (Richard), Scientific American, 6/88. Dawkins (Richard), “Book Review,” The New York Times, 4/9/89,  ...
Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff;

Richard Watson

A N E O DOT ES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LAN DAFF: WRITTEN BY HIM SELF AT DIFFERENT INTERVALS, AND REVISED IN 1814. PUBLISHED BY HIS SON, RICHARD WATSON, LL.B. PREBENDARY OF ...
Black Boy

Black Boy

Richard Wright

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - ­ temporarily - an alcoholic.
Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Life and Inventions of Richard Roberts, 1789-1864

Richard Leslie Hills

This is a biography of Richard Roberts, one of Britain's greatest inventors and the father of production engineering.
Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx

Richard M. Gaines

Richard M. Gaines. Richard M. Gaines ARCHAEOTERYX A Buddy Book by Richard M. Gaines \ .__. Cover.

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