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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-02 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:
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Language: en
Pages: 421
Pages: 421
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it r
Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-10 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets. What is extraordinary is how little systematic exploratio
Language: en
Pages: 380
Pages: 380
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-09 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set fir