The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [[electronic resource] /] / Benjamin Franklin ; edited by Peter Conn ; preface by Amy Gutmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457086203321
• Autore: Franklin Benjamin <1706-1790.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pa., : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-283-21059-2; 9786613210593; 0-8122-0011-X
• Edizione: [Penn Reading Project ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ConnPeter J
• Disciplina: 973.3/092; B
• Soggetti: Statesmen - United States; Scientists - United States; Inventors - United States; Printers - United States; Education - Pennsylvania; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-142).
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The autobiography -- pt. 2. Critical essays.
• Sommario/riassunto: Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature.On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of ; Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's Autobiography, including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania.No area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, "more profoundly than have the founders of any other major university of college in the United States." Franklin believed that he had been born too soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn today.Essay contributors: Richard R. Beeman, Paul Guyer, Michael Weisberg, and Michael Zuckerman.

The Sense of the Past : Essays in the History of Philosophy / / Bernard Williams; Myles Burnyeat

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454963603321
• Autore: Williams Bernard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-282-15922-4; 9786612159220; 1-4008-2710-8
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Disciplina: 190; 109
• Soggetti: Philosophy -- History; Philosophy, Ancient; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy - History; Philosophy & Religion; Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Williams, Patricia -- Introduction / Burnyeat, Myles -- Greek: General -- ONE. The Legacy of Greek Philosophy -- TWO. The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics -- THREE. Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology -- Socrates and Plato -- FOUR. Pagan Justice and Christian Love -- FIVE. Introduction to Plato's Theaetetus -- SIX. Plato against the Immoralist -- SEVEN. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic -- EIGHT. Plato's Construction of Intrinsic Goodness -- NINE. Cratylus' Theory of Names and Its Refutation -- TEN. Plato: The Invention of Philosophy -- Aristotle -- ELEVEN. Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts -- TWELVE. Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch -- THIRTEEN. Justice as a Virtue -- FOURTEEN. Hylomorphism -- Descartes -- FIFTEEN.Descartes' Use of Scepticism -- SIXTEEN. Introductory Essay on Descartes' Meditations -- SEVENTEEN. Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy -- Hume -- EIGHTEEN. Hume on Religion -- Sidgwick -- NINETEEN. The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics -- Nietzsche -- TWENTY. Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology -- TWENTY-ONE. Introduction to The Gay Science -- TWENTY-TWO. "There are many kinds of eyes" -- TWENTY-THREE. Unbearable Suffering -- R. G. Collingwood -- TWENTY-FOUR. An Essay on Collingwood -- Wittgenstein -- TWENTY-FIVE. Wittgenstein and Idealism -- Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications
• Sommario/riassunto: Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in this masterful work, the first collection ever published of Williams's essays on the history of philosophy. The subjects range from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth A.D., from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche. Often one would be hard put to say which part is history, which philosophy. Both are involved throughout, because this is the history of philosophy written philosophically. Historical exposition goes hand in hand with philosophical scrutiny. Insights into the past counteract blind acceptance of present assumptions. In his touching and illuminating introduction, Myles Burnyeat writes of these essays: "They show a depth of commitment to the history of philosophy seldom to be found nowadays in a thinker so prominent on the contemporary philosophical scene." The result celebrates the interest and importance to philosophy today of its near and distant past. The Sense of the Past is one of three collections of essays by Bernard Williams published by Princeton University Press since his death. In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, selected, edited, and with an introduction by Geoffrey Hawthorn, and Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, selected, edited, and with an introduction by A. W. Moore, make up the trio.