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Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

By: Nickolas Pappas

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Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

By: Nickolas Pappas

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues. Those exceptional elements of experience – love, city, philosopher – do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that contains lamentable versions of each. Thus Pappas is depicting the philosophical ambition to intensify the concepts and experiences one normally thinks with. His investigations point beyond the fates of these particular exceptions to broader conclusions about Plato’s world. Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher will be of interest to any readers of Plato, and of ancient philosophy more broadly.

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The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

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The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

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Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic introduces the major themes in Plato’s great book and acts as a companion for reading the work, examining: The context of Plato’s work and the background to his writing Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and impact The reception the book received when first seen by the world The relevance of Plato’s work to modern philosophy, its legacy and influence. With further reading included throughout, this text follows Plato’s original work closely, making it essential reading for all students of philosophy, and all those wishing to get to grips with this classic work.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

By: Nickolas Pappas

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

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In the second edition of this title, Nickolas Pappas extends his exploration of Plato's text to include substantial revisions and new material. The chapters on Plato's ethics and politics have been revised and enlarged to include two brand new sections, plus further discussion of Plato on aesthetics.

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Psychology Press

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0415299977

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The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

By: Nickolas Pappas

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The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

By: Nickolas Pappas

This book takes a new approach to the question, "Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?". Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify philosophers – how do they appear, in particular how do they dress? The book moves to modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". He argues that aspects of the fashion/anti-fashion debate apply to antiquity, indeed that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy’s orientation toward a social world in which, for all its true existence elsewhere, philosophy also has to live.

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1317399242

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Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

By: Nickolas Pappas,Mark Zelcer

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Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

By: Nickolas Pappas,Mark Zelcer

Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric. In this book, Pappas and Zelcer provide a persuasive alternative reading of the text, one that contributes in many ways to our understanding of Plato, and specifically to our understanding of his political thought. The book is organized into two parts. In the first part the authors offer a synopsis of the dialogue, address the setting and its background in terms of the Athenian funeral speech, and discuss the alternative readings of the dialogue, showing their weaknesses and strengths. In the second part, the authors offer their positive interpretation of the dialogue, taking particular care to explain and ground their interpretive criteria and method, which considers Plato's text not simply as a de-contextualized collection of philosophical arguments but offers a theoretically reading of the text that situates it firmly within its historical context. The book will become a reference point in the debate about the Menexenus and Plato's political philosophy more generally and marks an important contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and classical Athenian society.

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1317592190

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Signal Transduction Research Trends

By: Nickolas O. Grachevsky

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Signal Transduction Research Trends

By: Nickolas O. Grachevsky

Signal transduction is any process by which a cell converts one kind of signal or stimulus into another. Processes referred to as signal transduction often involve a sequence of biochemical reactions inside the cell, which are carried out by enzymes and linked through second messengers. In many transduction processes, an increasing number of enzymes and other molecules become engaged in the events that proceed from the initial stimulus. Responses of cells to environmental signals, toxins and stressors have profound implications for diverse aspects of human health and disease including development, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, asthma, heart, autoimmune diseases and cancer. The delineation of the signal transduction pathways affected in these and other complex human diseases are likely to present new avenues for therapeutic intervention and understanding of human disease mechanisms.

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Nova Publishers

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1600214878

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Critical Thinking

By: Brooke Noel Moore,Nickolas Pappas,Richard Parker,Daniel Bonevac

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Critical Thinking

By: Brooke Noel Moore,Nickolas Pappas,Richard Parker,Daniel Bonevac

More than any other textbook, Moore and Parker's "Critical Thinking" has defined the structure and content of the critical thinking course at colleges and universities across the country--and has done so with a witty writing style that students enjoy. Now in full-color, the eighth edition brings the concepts of critical thinking to life in vivid detail, with current examples relevant to today's students. . .

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

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The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

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Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic introduces the major themes in Plato's great book and acts as a companion for reading the work, examining: The context of Plato's work and the background to his writing Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and impact The reception the book received when first seen by the world The relevance of Plato's work to modern philosophy, its legacy and influence. With further reading included throughout, this text follows Plato's original work closely, making it essential reading for all students of philosophy, and all those wishing to get to grips with this classic work.

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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

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The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

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The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

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The Nietzsche Disappointment

Reckoning with Nietzsche's Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes

By: Nickolas Pappas

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The Nietzsche Disappointment

Reckoning with Nietzsche's Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes

By: Nickolas Pappas

The Nietzsche Disappointment confronts Nietzsche's recurrent, symptomatic struggles with causal accounts. His explanations of past and future raise high hopes; when they fail they are responsible for profound disappointment.

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Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

By: Nickolas Pappas,Mark Zelcer

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A Nietzschean Bestiary

Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal

By: Christa Davis Acampora,Ralph R. Acampora

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A Nietzschean Bestiary

Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal

By: Christa Davis Acampora,Ralph R. Acampora

Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions, and the notorious blond beast—to ingeniously reveal how these creatures play a prominent role in the development of Nietzsche's philosophy. Numerous essays explore the nature of human animality and our relations to other animals. Contributors shed new light on Nietzsche's conception of power, freedom, and meaning. Research tools, including discussions of Nietzsche's influence on important twentieth-century philosophers and the most extensive index of animal references in Nietzsche's corpus, make this an essential volume for scholars and students alike.

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Critical Thinking

By: Brooke Noel Moore,Nickolas Pappas,Richard Parker,Daniel Bonevac

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By: Brooke Noel Moore,Nickolas Pappas,Richard Parker,Daniel Bonevac

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Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Philosopher's New Clothes

Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

Signal Transduction Research Trends

Signal Transduction Research Trends

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic

The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Philosopher's New Clothes

The Nietzsche Disappointment

The Nietzsche Disappointment

Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Menexenus

A Nietzschean Bestiary

A Nietzschean Bestiary

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

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