This book provides the first extensive assessment of Hadot's and Foucault's interpretations of ancient philosophy. It brings together specialists in ancient thought, as well as Hadot and Foucault ...scholars, both to explore famous criticisms and clarify Hadot's and Foucault's accounts.
Isaac Newton'sChronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically ...revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's by a millennium.Newton and the Origin of Civilizationtells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe's learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond.
Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold reveal the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during Newton's earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton's unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, Buchwald and Feingold reconcile Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.
The book is the result of a research project entitled Poetry as a Resource of Philosophical Reflection in Plato, financed by Colciencias and the University of the North, in which Carlos Pájaro and ...Javier Suárez participated and, as they themselves clarify in the preface, also Sandro Watts and Fernán Ramírez. The book counted on the advice of two international pairs specialists in Plato: Jairo Escobar Moncada, professor of the University of Antioquia, Colombia, and José María Zamora Calvo, professor of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. Erotica and exile was published in 2015 by the publishing house Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla and the Verbum publishing house in Madrid.
El libro es el resultado de un proyecto de investigación titulado La poesía como recurso de la reflexión filosófica en Platón, financiado por Colciencias y la Universidad del Norte, en el que participaron Carlos Pájaro y Javier Suárez y, como ellos mismos aclaran en el prefacio, también Sandro Watts y Fernán Ramírez. El libro contó con la asesoría de dos pares internacionales especialistas en Platón: Jairo Escobar Moncada, profesor de la Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), y José María Zamora Calvo, profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España). Erótica y destierro fue publicado en 2015 por la editorial Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla y la editorial Verbum de Madrid.
The Therapy of Desire Nussbaum, Martha C
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The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of ...death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought today. This edition features a new introduction by Nussbaum, in which she revisits the themes of this now classic work.
Nature is a vital context for transcendent experiences fostering the spiritual dimensions of humankind. Analysing data from protected areas in China, this paper investigates the ways in which ...spirituality permeates nature-based tourism. A thematic analysis was undertaken to interpret 27 semi-structured in-depth interviews with professionals and tourists. Findings enable the construction of a hierarchical framework of spiritual tourism achievement and highlight the need to create links between protected areas, tourists, and ‘mediums’. Nature is acknowledged as a means of overcoming spiritual emptiness in a secular nation where religions function in a limited way and traditional wisdom is undervalued. This study proposes a nature-based, philosophy-oriented tourism development model, which sheds light on theoretical and industrial domains alike.
•Discuss the conceptual confusion and vacuity of theory in spiritual tourism•Identify a hierarchical framework of spiritual tourism achievement•Propose an association between tourists, protected areas, and ‘mediums’•How can Chinese people console their spirits and overcome spiritual emptiness•Expect future research on gender issues, indigenous people, and sustainability
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