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Augustine

By: Gareth B. Matthews

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This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Explores new insights into one of antiquity’s most important philosophers Topics Include: skepticism, language acquisition, mind-body dualism, philosophical dream problems, time and creation, faith and reason, foreknowledge and free will, and Augustine’s standing as a ‘Socratic philosopher’.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470776781

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9780470776780

Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method

By: Gareth B. Matthews

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Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method

By: Gareth B. Matthews

The Socratic method of questioning and refutation (elenchus) predominates the early Platonic dialogues. But things change in the middle dialogues, as Socrates goes beyond merely asking questions and begins to provide answers to his questions. And the method virtually disappears in the late dialogues. The standard explanation of this phenomenon is that the early dialogues were intended to commemorate Socrates and the elenchus, while in the middle and late dialogues Plato went beyond Socrates to present his own mature philosophical thought. In this book, Matthews revises this explanation by uncovering the shortcomings that Plato came to find in the Socratic method and the reasons why Plato lost interest in it.

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Springer Nature

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303113690X

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9783031136900

Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy

By: Gareth B. Matthews

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Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy

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Gareth Matthews suggests that we can better understand the nature of philosophical inquiry if we recognize the central role played by perplexity. The seminal representation of philosophical perplexity is in Plato's dialogues; Matthews examines the intriguing shifts in Plato's attitude to perplexity and suggests that these may represent a course of philosophical development that philosophers follow even today.

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0198238886

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Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories

By: S.Marc Cohen,Gareth B. Matthews

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Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories

By: S.Marc Cohen,Gareth B. Matthews

Ammonius, who taught most of the leading sixth-century Neoplatonists, introduced the methods of his own teacher, Proclus, from Athens to Alexandria. These are exemplified in his commentaries: for instance, in the set of ten introductory questions prefixed to this commentary, which became standard. The commentary is interesting for the light it sheds on the religious situation in Alexandria. It used to be said that the Alexandrian Neoplatonist school was allowed to remain open after the Athenian school closed because Ammonius has agreed with the Christian authorities to keep quiet about his religious views. On the contrary, as this commentary shows he freely declared his belief in the Neoplatonist deities. The philosophical problems considered by Ammonius offer a unique insight into Aristotle's Categories. They exercise the mind and deepen understanding of the subject matter. Modern readers would do well to put the same questions to themselves.

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A&C Black

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1780933789

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9781780933788

Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

By: Gareth B. Matthews

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Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

By: Gareth B. Matthews

In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. "By examining the first-personalization of philosophy in these two historical figures," he writes, "we can learn something important about our own philosophical options, and about those of any other thinker who dares, philosophically, to say 'I.

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Cornell University Press

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0801427754

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9780801427756

The Philosophy of Childhood

By: Gareth Matthews

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The Philosophy of Childhood

By: Gareth Matthews

So many questions, such an imagination, endless speculation: the child seems to be a natural philosopher--until the ripe old age of eight or nine, when the spirit of inquiry mysteriously fades. What happened? Was it something we did--or didn't do? Was the child truly the philosophical being he once seemed? Gareth Matthews takes up these concerns in The Philosophy of Childhood, a searching account of children's philosophical potential and of childhood as an area of philosophical inquiry. Seeking a philosophy that represents the range and depth of children's inquisitive minds, Matthews explores both how children think and how we, as adults, think about them. Adult preconceptions about the mental life of children tend to discourage a child's philosophical bent, Matthews suggests, and he probes the sources of these limiting assumptions: restrictive notions of maturation and conceptual development; possible lapses in episodic memory; the experience of identity and growth as "successive selves," which separate us from our own childhoods. By exposing the underpinnings of our adult views of childhood, Matthews, a philosopher and longtime advocate of children's rights, clears the way for recognizing the philosophy of childhood as a legitimate field of inquiry. He then conducts us through various influential models for understanding what it is to be a child, from the theory that individual development recapitulates the development of the human species to accounts of moral and cognitive development, including Piaget's revolutionary model. The metaphysics of playdough, the authenticity of children's art, the effects of divorce and intimations of mortality on a child--all have a place in Matthews's rich discussion of the philosophical nature of childhood. His book will prompt us to reconsider the distinctions we make about development and the competencies of mind, and what we lose by denying childhood its full philosophical breadth.

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Harvard University Press

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0674265858

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Philosophy and the Young Child

By: Gareth B. Matthews

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Philosophy and the Young Child

By: Gareth B. Matthews

Anecdotes and the insights gained through study combine to probe the philosophical thought of children and the ways children blend reasoning and curiosity to deal with problems concerning knowledge, value, and existence.

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Book's by Gareth B. Matthews

Augustine

Augustine

Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method

Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method

Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy

Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy

Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories

Ammonius: On Aristotle Categories

Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

The Philosophy of Childhood

The Philosophy of Childhood

Philosophy and the Young Child

Philosophy and the Young Child

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