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January 1, 2025

The Athenian Constitution Written in the School of Aristotle

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Free Download Peter J. Rhodes, "The Athenian Constitution Written in the School of Aristotle "
English | ISBN: 1786948370 | 2017 | 454 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is an edition of the Athenian Constitution, the only one to survive of 158 Constitutions written in the school of Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., of which a text on papyrus was found at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on an edition commissioned by the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla in Italy, it provides an introduction, a re-edited Greek text with a facing translation, and a commentary. The editor has been engaged with this text throughout his working life, and published a large commentary on it in 1981 and a Penguin Classics translation of it in 1984: since then scholarly advances have continued, and he has been able to take advantage of them to bring the material in this book up to date. The translation aims at an accurate rendering of the Greek text; the commentary is based on the translation, and should be accessible to readers with little or no knowledge of Greek.

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December 27, 2024

Aristotle and Black Drama A Theater of Civil Disobedience

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Free Download Patrice D. Rankine, "Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience"
English | ISBN: 1602584524 | 2013 | 270 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Civil disobedience has a tattered history in the American story. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as both moral reflection and political act, the performance of civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws is also, Patrice Rankine argues, a deeply artistic practice. Modern parallels to King’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body challenges the normative assumptions of classical texts and modes of creation. This is a theater of civil disobedience.

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December 8, 2024

The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle

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Free Download The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Christopher Shields
English | July 26, 2012 | ISBN: 0195187482, 0190244844 | True PDF | 731 pages | 9 MB
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries.

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September 29, 2024

The Cave and the Light Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (Audiobook)
English | November 06, 2013 | ASIN: B00GHGZ8M6 | M4B@64 kbps | 25h 26m | 702 MB
Author: Arthur Herman | Narrator: Paul Hecht
The definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture-and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day.
Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable upper-class lifestyle until he met an odd little man named Socrates, who showed him a new world of ideas and ideals. Socrates taught Plato that a man must use reason to attain wisdom, and that the life of a lover of wisdom, a philosopher, was the pinnacle of achievement. Plato dedicated himself to living that ideal and went on to create a school, his famed Academy, to teach others the path to enlightenment through contemplation.

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