wyszukanych pozycji: 19
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Surviving Technology: Lessons from Theater: The New Necessities For Living a Human Life
ISBN: 9781949845372 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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62,02 zł |
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The Ethics of Giving: Philosophers' Perspectives on Philanthropy
ISBN: 9780190648879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good? This is a unique collection of new papers on philanthropy from a range of philosophical perspectives, including intuitionism, virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, theories of justice, and ideals of personal integrity.
In giving to charity, should we strive to do the greatest good or promote a lesser good? This is a unique collection of new papers on philanthropy fr...
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190,34 zł |
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The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched
ISBN: 9780195394801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into... What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Pa...
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116,24 zł |
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780190669447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Philosophers and classicists examine Sophocles' treatment of Oedipus, the man who did not know himself, in these new essays. They discuss barriers to self-knowledge and an old man's quest for serenity, and explore the question: is it better not to be born at all, or better, once born, to die young rather than live a long life?
Philosophers and classicists examine Sophocles' treatment of Oedipus, the man who did not know himself, in these new essays. They discuss barriers to...
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474,90 zł |
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Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
ISBN: 9780199350803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control -- God, truth, justice, nature, even death. It is a quality of character that is especially important in leadership and in teaching, although it figures in virtually every...
Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning ...
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85,51 zł |
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The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched
ISBN: 9780195332001 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that - at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into... What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Pa...
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192,74 zł |
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First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
ISBN: 9780195177183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives--does this automatically mean that you have a democracy? In this eye-opening look at an ideal that we all take for granted, classical scholar Paul Woodruff offers some surprising answers to these questions.
Drawing on classical literature, philosophy, and history--with many intriguing passages from Sophocles, Aesop, and Plato, among others--Woodruff immerses us in... Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"...
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223,82 zł |
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Living Toward Virtue: Practical Ethics in the Spirit of Socrates
ISBN: 9780197672129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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123,41 zł |
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780190669454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Philosophers and classicists examine Sophocles' treatment of Oedipus, the man who did not know himself, in these new essays. They discuss barriers to self-knowledge and an old man's quest for serenity, and explore the question: is it better not to be born at all, or better, once born, to die young rather than live a long life?
Philosophers and classicists examine Sophocles' treatment of Oedipus, the man who did not know himself, in these new essays. They discuss barriers to...
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135,36 zł |
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Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards
ISBN: 9780199356881 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma, Paul Woodruff examines one of today's most pressing moral issues: how to distribute rewards and public recognition without damaging the social fabric. How should we honor those whose behavior and achievement is essential to our overall success? Is it fair or right to lavish rewards on the...
We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athl...
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89,59 zł |
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First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
ISBN: 9780195304541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives--does this automatically mean that you have a democracy? In this eye-opening look at an ideal that we all take for granted, classical scholar Paul Woodruff offers some surprising answers to these questions.
Drawing on classical literature, philosophy, and history--with many intriguing passages from Sophocles, Aesop, and Plato, among others--Woodruff immerses us in... Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"...
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97,10 zł |
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The Garden of Leaders: Revolutionizing Higher Education
ISBN: 9780190883645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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149,70 zł |
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Paul Woodruff: The Vietnam Plays
ISBN: 9781503147751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Veterans' issues are front and center now, after Iraq and Afghanistan, as they were not after Vietnam. This is a good time to put before the public the texts of these two plays, which were started during the author's tour of duty in Vietnam and finished soon after. A soldier returns from a long war, expecting a welcome, and no one recognizes him. In his own house he is treated like a beggar. This is the ancient story of Ulysses, but it also expresses how many veterans feel today. How can any civilian understand what soldiers have seen and done? How can civilians take back into their arms...
Veterans' issues are front and center now, after Iraq and Afghanistan, as they were not after Vietnam. This is a good time to put before the public th...
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51,29 zł |
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The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
ISBN: 9781647920326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his History . Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid stories of...
Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, witho...
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247,26 zł |
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Memories in Time of War
ISBN: 9798392679911 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,74 zł |
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Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195133226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of religion in Socratic philosophy and on the trial of Socrates. Among the contributors are Thomas C. Brickhouse, Asli Gocer, Richard Kraut, Mark L. McPherran, Robert C. T. Parker, C. D. C. Reeve, Nicholas D. Smith, Gregory Vlastos, Stephen A. White, and Paul B. Woodruff.
This volume brings together mostly previously unpublished studies by prominent historians, classicists, and philosophers on the roles and effects of r...
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615,97 zł |
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Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists
ISBN: 9780521431927 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic philosophers. Besides political theory, ancient political thought includes early sociology, anthropology, ethics and rhetoric, and the wide range of issues discussed includes the origin of human society, the origin of law, the nature of justice, the forms of good government, and the distribution of power among genders and social classes.
This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedi...
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867,80 zł |
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Leviathan and Its Enemies
ISBN: 9781593680749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 794 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,81 zł |
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Leviathan and Its Enemies
ISBN: 9781593680497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 794 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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280,08 zł |