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The Emotive Theory of Ethics

By: J. O. Urmson

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Originally published in 1968, this book traces the development of the emotive theory of ethics from its outline by Ogden and Richards in The Meaning of Meaning to the elaborate presentation by Stevenson in Ethics and Language. Attention is paid to the positive features of the ethical theory whilst the author also shows how a more adequate view can be reached through critical reflection on it.

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1000075311

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14

By: J.O. Urmson

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14

By: J.O. Urmson

This companion to J. O. Urmson's translation in the same series of Simplicius' Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius' commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle's Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800 years' discussion of Aristotle's views. Simplicius records attacks on Aristotle's claim that time requires change, or consciousness. He reports a rebuttal of the Pythagorean theory that history will repeat itself exactly. He evaluates Aristotle's treatment of Zeno's paradox concerning place. Throughout he elucidates the structure and meaning of Aristotle's argument, and all the more clearly for having separated off his own views into the Corollaries.

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1780934254

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Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time

By: J.O. Urmson

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Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time

By: J.O. Urmson

Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas.

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1780934289

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5

By: J.O. Urmson

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Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5

By: J.O. Urmson

Simplicius, the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle's Physics , lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle's works. Those on the Physics, which alone come to over 1,300 pages in the original Greek, preserve a centuries-old tradition of ancient scholarship on Aristotle. In Physics Book 5 Aristotle lays down some of the principles of his dynamics and theory of change. What does not count as change: change of relation? The flux of time? There is no change of change, yet acceleration is recognised. Aristotle defines 'continuous', 'contact' and 'next', and uses these definitions in discussing when we can claim that the same change or event is still going on. This volume is complemented by David Konstan's translation of Simplicius' commentary on Physics Book 6, which has already appeared in this series. It is Book 6 that gives spatial application to the terms defined in Book 5, and uses them to mount a celebrated attack on atomism. Simplicius' commentaries enrich our understanding of the Physics and of its interpretation in the ancient world.

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147250187X

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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

By: J.O. Urmson,Paul Lettinck

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Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

By: J.O. Urmson,Paul Lettinck

Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text, recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle, is an abridging paraphrase of Philoponus' commentary on Physics Books 5-7, with two final comments on Book 8. The Simplicius text, which consists of his comments on Aristotle's treatment of the void in chapters 6-9 of Book 4 of the Physics, comes from Simplicius' huge commentary on Book 4. Simplicius' comments on Aristotle's treatment of place and time have been translated by J. O. Urmson in two earlier volumes of this series.

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1472501829

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4

By: J.O. Urmson

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Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4

By: J.O. Urmson

The commentary attributed to Simplicius on Aristotle's On the Soul appears in this series in three volumes, of which this is the first. The translation provides the first opportunity for a wider readership to assess the disputed question of authorship. Is the work by Simplicius, or by his colleague Priscian, or by another commentator? In the second volume, Priscian's Paraphrase of Theophrastus on Sense Perception, which covers the same subject, will also be translated for comparison. Whatever its authorship, the commentary is a major source for late Neoplatonist theories of thought and sense perception and provides considerable insight into this important area of Aristotle's thought. In this first volume, the Neoplatonist commentator covers the first half of Aristotle's On the Soul, comprising Aristotle's survey of his predecessors and his own rival account of the nature of the soul.

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1472501837

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Human Agency

Language, Duty, and Value : Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson

By: J. O. Urmson,Jonathan Dancy,J. M. E. Moravcsik,Christopher Charles Whiston Taylor

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Human Agency

Language, Duty, and Value : Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson

By: J. O. Urmson,Jonathan Dancy,J. M. E. Moravcsik,Christopher Charles Whiston Taylor

The essays in this volume explore current work in central areas of philosophy, work unified by attention to salient questions of human action and human agency. They ask what it is for humans to act knowledgeably, to use language, to be friends, to act heroically, to be mortally fortunate, and to produce as well as to appreciate art. The volume is dedicated to J. O. Urmson, in recognition of his inspirational contributions to these areas. All the essays but one have been specially written for this volume.

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0804714746

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Lost Youth in the Global City

Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary

By: Jo-Anne Dillabough,Jacqueline Kennelly

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Lost Youth in the Global City

Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary

By: Jo-Anne Dillabough,Jacqueline Kennelly

What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late modernity, no longer at the center of city life, but pushed instead to new and insecure margins of the urban inner city? How are changing patterns of migration and work, along with shifting gender roles and expectations, impacting marginalized youth in the radically transformed urban city of the twenty-first century? In Lost Youth in the Global City, Jo-Anne Dillabough and Jacqueline Kennelly focus on young people who live at the margins of urban centers, the "edges" where low-income, immigrant, and other disenfranchised youth are increasingly finding and defining themselves. Taking the imperative of multi-sited ethnography and urban youth cultures as a starting point, this rich and layered book offers a detailed exploration of the ways in which these groups of young people, marked by economic disadvantage and ethnic and religious diversity, have sought to navigate a new urban terrain and, in so doing, have come to see themselves in new ways. By giving these young people shape and form – both looking across their experiences in different cities and attending to their particularities – Lost Youth in the Global City sets a productive and generative agenda for the field of critical youth studies.

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1135163391

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Organizations: A Very Short Introduction

By: Mary Jo Hatch

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Organizations: A Very Short Introduction

By: Mary Jo Hatch

Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do they contribute to and detract from the meaningfulness of lives, and how might we improve them so they better serve our needs and desires? This Very Short Introductions addresses all of these questions and considers many more. Mary Jo Hatch introduces the concept of organizations by presenting definitions and ideas drawn from the a variety of subject areas including the physical sciences, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, literature, and the visual and performing arts. Drawing on examples from prehistory and everyday life, from the animal kingdom as well as from business, government, and other formal organizations, Hatch provides a lively and thought provoking introduction to the process of organization. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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019161498X

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Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft

Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy

By: B. Hallen,J. O. Sodipo

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Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft

Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy

By: B. Hallen,J. O. Sodipo

This is the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy.

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Book's by J.O. Urmson

The Emotive Theory of Ethics

The Emotive Theory of Ethics

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 4.1-5 and 10-14

Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time

Simplicius: Corollaries on Place and Time

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 5

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 5-8 with Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Void

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4

Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Soul 1.1-2.4

Human Agency

Human Agency

Lost Youth in the Global City

Lost Youth in the Global City

Organizations: A Very Short Introduction

Organizations: A Very Short Introduction

Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft

Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft

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