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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.

Free Download Robert Heinaman, "Plato and Aristotle’s Ethics "
English | ISBN: 0754634035 | 2003 | 216 pages | EPUB | 829 KB
This volume, emanating from the Fourth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, presents essays and comments by nine outstanding scholars of ancient philosophy, which examine the influence of Plato on the development of Aristotle’s ethics. The essays focus on the role of pleasure in happiness and the good life (Christopher Taylor and Sarah Broadie), the irreducibility of ethical concepts to value-neutral concepts (Anthony Price and Sarah Broadie), the relation of virtue to happiness (Roger Crisp and Christopher Rowe, Terry Irwin and Sir Anthony Kenny), the role of the requirement of self-sufficiency in determining the content of happiness (John Cooper and Sir Anthony Kenny), and the question of whether the just man should be a participant in the political life of his city (Richard Kraut and Christopher Rowe).

Free Download Jonathan E. Pike, "From Aristotle to Marx: Aristotelianism in Marxist Social Ontology "
English | ISBN: 113836987X | 2019 | 195 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
First published in 1999, this volume from Dr. Jonathan E. Pike is original and provocative and integrates sources from the history of ideas, analytical philosophy, and contemporary social theory. Pike has produced an overall account of Marx which focuses on the concept of human potential and clearly explains its ontological basis. Anyone interested in Marx studies will be indebted to this incisive discussion of the philosophical foundations of Marx’s work.

Free Download Justin Humphreys, "The Invention of Imagination: Aristotle, Geometry, and the Theory of the Psyche"
English | ISBN: 0822947404 | 2023 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Aristotle was the first philosopher to divide the imagination-what he called phantasia-from other parts of the psyche, placing it between perception and intellect. A mathematician and philosopher of mathematical sciences, Aristotle was puzzled by the problem of geometrical cognition-which depends on the ability to "produce" and "see" a multitude of immaterial objects-and so he introduced the category of internal appearances produced by a new part of the psyche, the imagination. As Justin Humphreys argues, Aristotle developed his theory of imagination in part to explain certain functions of reason with a psychological rather than metaphysical framework. Investigating the background of this conceptual development, The Invention of Imagination reveals how imagery was introduced into systematic psychology in fifth-century Athens and ultimately made mathematical science possible. It offers new insights about major philosophers in the Greek tradition and significant events in the emergence of ancient mathematics while offering space for a critical reflection on how we understand ourselves as thinking beings.

Free Download J.P. Anton, "Aristotle’s Theory of Contrariety "
English | ISBN: 0415613612 | 2010 | 268 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This is Volume I of ten of a series on Ancient Philosophy. Originally published in 1957, the present volume is the result of several years of research in ancient philosophy. It began with the main purpose of elucidating the theme of contrariety and the role it played in the Aristotelian treatises as well as a look into its pre-Aristotelian history.

Free Download Aristotle on Truth, Dialogue, Justice and Decision (Law and Philosophy Library, 144) by Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer, Nuno M.M.S. Coelho
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: 3031454847 | 268 pages | MOBI | 0.68 Mb
In this thought-provoking book, you’ll find timeless questions explored through a fresh lens. First delving into the profound significance of Socrates’ dialogical method and the inescapable nature of conflict, it ponders the rational capacities of humanity in terms of establishing harmonious communities. But this isn’t merely a philosophical debate; it’s a pragmatic exploration of real-world challenges.

Free Download David Bloch, "Aristotle on Memory and Recollection: Text, Translation, Interpretation, and Reception in Western Scholasticism "
English | ISBN: 9004160469 | 2007 | 276 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Twentieth-century Scholarship on Aristotle’s De Memoria et Reminiscentia was dominated by the view that Aristotle’s theories of memory and recollection are basically very similar to ours. By means of a new critical edition of the Greek text, an essay on Aristotle’s own theories and an essay on these theories as they were received in the Latin West, the present book offers material that challenges the opinio communis. The result is a new interpretation of Aristotle’s De Memoria et Reminiscentia and its relevance to the concerns of 21st-century philosophers, both regarding the concepts of memory and recollection and regarding Aristotle’s philosophical methodology.

Free Download James Arthur, "The Formation of Character in Education: From Aristotle to the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 0367206021 | 2019 | 242 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Formation of Character: From Aristotle to the 21st Century offers an introduction to the foundations, practices, policies and issues of character formation historically. Following a chronological order, it charts the idea of character formation in the Western tradition by critically examining its precursors, origins, development, meanings and uses.

Free Download Victor Gysembergh, "Forgotten Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle’s ›Sophistical Refutations‹: Fragments of Aspasios, Herminos, Alexander, Syr"
English | ISBN: 3111332667 | 2023 | 113 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How were Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations read in Antiquity? What were the perceived intentions, messages and problems of this treatise, the last within the Organon?

Free Download Aristotle, "Aristotle’s Dialectic: Topics, Sophistical Refutations, and Related Texts "
English | ISBN: 1647921678 | 2024 | 408 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Aristotle’s Dialectic fits seamlessly with the other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotle Series, enabling Anglophone readers to study these works in a way previously not possible. The Introduction describes the book that lies ahead, explaining what it is about, what it is trying to do, and how it goes about doing it. Sequentially numbered, cross-referenced endnotes provide the information most needed at each juncture, while a detailed Index indicates the places where focused discussion of key notions occurs.