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Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

By: Sebastian Gertz

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Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

By: Sebastian Gertz

The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria. Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to the philosophy curriculum, which made it far more accessible, and encouraged its spread from Greek to other cultures. This volume's three introductory texts include one by his student Olympiodorus and one each by Olympiodorus' students Elias and David. Elias' Introductions to Philosophy starts with six definitions of Philosophy, to which David adds replies to the sceptical question whether there is such a thing as Philosophy. Olympiodorus' text translated here is an Introduction to Logic, which is just one of the three introductions he wrote himself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350051756

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Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius

By: Sebastian Gertz,John Dillon,Donald Russell

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Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius

By: Sebastian Gertz,John Dillon,Donald Russell

50 years before Philoponus, two Christians from Gaza, seeking to influence Alexandrian Christians, defended the Christian belief in resurrection and the finite duration of the world, and attacked rival Neoplatonist views. Aeneas addresses an unusual version of the food chain argument against resurrection, that our bodies will get eaten by other creatures. Zacharias attacks the Platonist examples of synchronous creation, which were the production of light, of shadow, and of a footprint in the sand. A fragment survives of a third Gazan contribution by Procopius. Zacharias lampoons the Neoplatonist professor in Alexandria, Ammonius, and claims a leading role in the riot which led to the cleverest Neoplatonist, Damascius, fleeing to Athens. It was only Philoponus, however, who was able to embarrass the Neoplatonists by arguing against them on their own terms. This volume contains an English translation of the works by Aeneas of Gaza and Zacharias of Mytilene, accompanied by a detailed introduction, explanatory notes and a bibliography.

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A&C Black

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1472500377

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PLOTINUS Ennead II.9

Against the Gnostics

By: Sebastian Gertz

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PLOTINUS Ennead II.9

Against the Gnostics

By: Sebastian Gertz

How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus' Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul's fall from intelligible reality-it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul's creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image.

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Parmenides Publishing

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1930972644

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Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

By: Sebastian Gertz

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Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo

By: Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

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Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo

By: Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

The belief in the immortality of the soul has been described as one of the “twin pillars of Platonism” and is famously defended by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo. The ancient commentaries on the dialogue by Olympiodorus and Damascius offer a unique perspective on the reception of this belief in the Platonic tradition. Through a detailed discussion of topics such as suicide, the life of the philosopher and arguments for immortality, this study demonstrates the commentators’ serious engagement with problems in Plato’s text as well as the dialogue's importance to Neoplatonic ethics. The book will be of interest to students of Plato and the Platonic tradition, and to those working on ancient ethics and psychology.

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BRILL

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9004215050

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9789004215054

Warfare by Another Name: Russian Computer Hacking against the United States and the West

By: Jack Caravelli ,Sebastian Maier

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Warfare by Another Name: Russian Computer Hacking against the United States and the West

By: Jack Caravelli ,Sebastian Maier

Russia has developed one of the world’s most extensive cyberwarfare capabilities and views those capabilities as a means to advance its strategic objectives in both war and peacetime. This paper examines Russia’s approach to the use of its cyber capabilities and how they are integrated into Russia’s broader objectives for dealing with its adversaries. Particular focus is placed on Russia’s unprecedented use of cyber to influence political elections in the West, including in the United States, France, and Germany. To further its objectives, Russia also has used relations with outsiders such as at WikiLeaks to disseminate information considered damaging to Russian foes such as the US political campaign of Hillary Clinton. The paper concludes that there are very limited means to either deter or hold accountable Russian uses of cyber, implying Russian cyber attacks will continue and could easily expand to Middle East nations.

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King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS)

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603820623X

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The Chile Project

The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

By: Sebastian Edwards

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The Chile Project

The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

By: Sebastian Edwards

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model—installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened during three decades of left-of-center governments—came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric, a young former student activist, was elected president, vowing that “If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave.” More than a story about one Latin American country, The Chile Project is a behind-the-scenes history of the spread and consequences of the free-market thinking that dominated economic policymaking around the world in the second half of the twentieth century—but is now on the retreat. In 1955, the U.S. State Department launched the “Chile Project” to train Chilean economists at the University of Chicago, home of the libertarian Milton Friedman. After General Augusto Pinochet overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile’s “Chicago Boys” implemented the purest neoliberal model in the world for the next seventeen years, undertaking a sweeping package of privatization and deregulation, creating a modern capitalist economy, and sparking talk of a “Chilean miracle.” But under the veneer of success, a profound dissatisfaction with the vast inequalities caused by neoliberalism was growing. In 2019, protests erupted throughout the country, and in 2022 Boric began his presidency with a clear mandate: to end neoliberalismo. In telling the fascinating story of the Chicago Boys and Chile’s free-market revolution, The Chile Project provides an important new perspective on the history of neoliberalism and its global decline today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691249369

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An Inky Parade

Tales for Bibliophiles

By: Pradeep Sebastian

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An Inky Parade

Tales for Bibliophiles

By: Pradeep Sebastian

Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching legends from the world of books. Meet the biryani chef guarding a prized Ottoman manuscript, track the mysterious 'Book Prince' of Kolkata, and visit the cottage in Kodaikanal that lures book collectors with its siren song. Discover how an emperor's defeat brought illuminated manuscripts into sixteenth-century India, how a rare 1865 edition of Alice in Wonderland surfaced in an Indian bazaar, and much more. An Inky Parade is a window into the charming world of antiquarian book trade in India and around the world, as well as an ode to the book as an object of art, sure to delight every reader.

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Hachette India

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9357314199

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9789357314190

Health in a Post-COVID World

Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism

By: Sebastian Taylor

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Health in a Post-COVID World

Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism

By: Sebastian Taylor

What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the validity of these - the founding principles of Western liberalism - and the policies they shape, as the recipe for progress? At a time of global 'permacrisis', Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival. Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole.

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Policy Press

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1447368371

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Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

By: Anders Søgaard,Ivan Vulić,Sebastian Ruder,Manaal Faruqui

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Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

By: Anders Søgaard,Ivan Vulić,Sebastian Ruder,Manaal Faruqui

The majority of natural language processing (NLP) is English language processing, and while there is good language technology support for (standard varieties of) English, support for Albanian, Burmese, or Cebuano--and most other languages--remains limited. Being able to bridge this digital divide is important for scientific and democratic reasons but also represents an enormous growth potential. A key challenge for this to happen is learning to align basic meaning-bearing units of different languages. In this book, the authors survey and discuss recent and historical work on supervised and unsupervised learning of such alignments. Specifically, the book focuses on so-called cross-lingual word embeddings. The survey is intended to be systematic, using consistent notation and putting the available methods on comparable form, making it easy to compare wildly different approaches. In so doing, the authors establish previously unreported relations between these methods and are able to present a fast-growing literature in a very compact way. Furthermore, the authors discuss how best to evaluate cross-lingual word embedding methods and survey the resources available for students and researchers interested in this topic.

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Springer Nature

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3031021711

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Corrupt Capital

Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful

By: Kenneth Sebastian León

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Corrupt Capital

Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful

By: Kenneth Sebastian León

This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case study to describe and explain the routine and embedded nature of corruption and deviance among the regulators and the regulated in the nightlife environment. This text offers a contemporary and incisive theoretical framework on the criminogenic features and structural contradictions of capitalism. The author both describes and explains how the dominant political economy is rife with structural contradictions that, in turn, generate various manifestations of white-collar crime, organizational deviance, and public corruption. The author uses the bar and nightlife environment to empirically anchor these claims. Methodologically, the research is innovative in advancing inquiry into ethically and logistically challenging environments. The style of writing and framing of the text is one that punches upward and avoids the voyeuristic and reductionist tropes historically associated with "dangerous fieldwork." Through a range of disciplinary perspectives, Corrupt Capital offers both scholarly rigor and inviting prose to advance our understanding of crimes of the relatively powerful and powerless alike. An accessible and compelling text, this book will appeal to readers in criminology, sociology, law and society, political science, and all those interested in learning about the relationship between power, law, and routinized corruption in the nightlife economy.

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Routledge

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0429589379

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Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo

By: Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

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Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Studies on the Ancient Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo

By: Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz

This study focuses on the ancient commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo by Olympiodorus and Damascius and aims to present the relevance of their challenging and valuable readings of the dialogue to Neoplatonic ethics.

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Book's by Sebastian Gertz

Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius

Aeneas of Gaza: Theophrastus with Zacharias of Mytilene: Ammonius

PLOTINUS Ennead II.9

PLOTINUS Ennead II.9

Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Warfare by Another Name: Russian Computer Hacking against the United States and the West

Warfare by Another Name: Russian Computer Hacking against the United States and the West

The Chile Project

The Chile Project

An Inky Parade

An Inky Parade

Health in a Post-COVID World

Health in a Post-COVID World

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Corrupt Capital

Corrupt Capital

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

Death and Immortality in Late Neoplatonism

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