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The Art of Living

The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy

By: John Sellars

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The Art of Living

The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy

By: John Sellars

This title was first published in 2003. Presenting philosophy as an art concerned with one’s way of life, Sellars draws on Socratic and Stoic philosophical resources and argues for the ancient claim that philosophy is primarily expressed in one’s behaviour. The book considers the relationship between philosophy and biography, and the bearing that this relationship has on debates concerning the nature and function of philosophy. Questioning the premise that philosophy can only be conceived as a rational discourse, Sellars presents it instead as an art (techne) that combines both ’logos’ (rational discourse) and ’askesis’ (training), and suggests that this will make it possible to understand better the relationship between philosophy and biography. The first part of this book outlines the Socratic conception of philosophy as an art and the Stoic development of this idea into an art of living, as well as considering some of the ancient objections to the Stoic conception. Part Two goes on to examine the relationship between philosophical discourse and exercises in Stoic philosophy. Taking the literary form of such exercises as central, the author analyses two texts devoted to philosophical exercises by Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.

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388

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Routledge

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1351772740

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9781351772747

Ancient & Modern Denbigh

By: John Williams

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Ancient & Modern Denbigh

By: John Williams

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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378

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368773852

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9783368773854

Shropshire, its Early History and Antiquities

By: John Corbet Anderson

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Shropshire, its Early History and Antiquities

By: John Corbet Anderson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Comprising a description of the important British and Roman Remains in that County. Its Saxon and Danish reminiscences. The Domesday Survey of Shropshire.

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630

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3752584726

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9783752584721

Venona

Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

By: John Earl Haynes,Harvey Klehr

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Venona

Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

By: John Earl Haynes,Harvey Klehr

This groundbreaking historical study reveals the shocking infiltration of Soviet spies in America—and the top-secret cryptography program that caught them. Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies. This extraordinary book is the first to examine the Venona messages—documents of unparalleled importance for our understanding of the history and politics of the Stalin era and the early Cold War years. Hidden in a former girls’ school in the late 1940s, Venona Project cryptanalysts, linguists, and mathematicians attempted to decode thousands of intercepted Soviet intelligence telegrams. When they cracked the Soviet code, analysts uncovered information of powerful significance: the first indication of Julius Rosenberg’s espionage efforts; references to the espionage activities of Alger Hiss; proof of Soviet infiltration of the Manhattan Project; evidence that spies had reached the highest levels of the U.S. State and Treasury Departments; indications that more than three hundred Americans had assisted in the Soviet theft of American secrets; and confirmation that the Communist party of the United States was consciously and willingly involved in Soviet espionage against America. Drawing not only on the Venona papers but also on newly opened Russian and U. S. archives, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr provide the most rigorously documented analysis ever written on Soviet espionage in the early Cold War years.

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763

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Yale University Press

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0300129874

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9780300129878

The Castle Community

The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422

By: John Rickard

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The Castle Community

The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422

By: John Rickard

Lists of owners, constables, and other known officials of English and Welsh castles, with sources. Arranged alphabetically by name of castle within each county.

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Boydell Press

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0851159133

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9780851159133

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The Art of Living

The Art of Living

Ancient & Modern Denbigh

Ancient & Modern Denbigh

Shropshire, its Early History and Antiquities

Shropshire, its Early History and Antiquities

Venona

Venona

The Castle Community

The Castle Community

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