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UNINA9910462999803321 |
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Hladky Vojtech |
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The philosophy of Gemistos Plethon : Platonism in late Byzantium, between Hellenism and orthodoxy / / Vojtech Hladky |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-317-02149-5 |
1-315-55472-0 |
1-4094-5295-6 |
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1 online resource (403 p.) |
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Political science - Philosophy |
Religion - Philosophy |
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Byzantine Empire Intellectual life |
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Monografia |
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First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Man and his Work; Gemistos and Scholarship; PART I: PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY; 1 Platonic Reforms; 2 Fate of the Soul; 3 Conclusion to Part I: Platonism in Practice; PART II: PHILOSOPHIA PERENNIS; 4 Writings about the Perennial Philosophy; 5 Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy; 6 Division of Reality; 7 Zeus, the First Principle; 8 Supracelestial Gods, the Forms; Defence of Platonic Forms; The Forms in Plethon's Laws; 9 The Forms as the Gods; Olympians; Titans (Tartarus); Table of the Gods of the First and Second Order |
Sources of Plethon's Mythology10 Sensible Cosmos; Gods of the Third Order; Stars and Daemons; 11 Nature Mortal and Human; The Soul and the Human Situation; Fate and Freedom; Ethics, Cult and Politics; 12 Conclusion to Part II: Plethon's Platonism; PART III: QUESTION OF RELIGION; 13 Becoming Pagan; 14 Gemistos' Mysterious Teacher; 15 Witnesses; Pupils and Friends; Admirers; Adversaries; 16 Change of Name; 17 Fight for Orthodoxy; 18 The Book; 19 Conclusion to Part III: Pagan or Christian?; Appendix; Manuscript Supplement; Abbreviations; Primary Sources; Gemistos Plethon and His Contemporaries |
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Other Ancient, Byzantine and Renaissance AuthorsSecondary Literature; Systematic Bibliographies of Secondary Texts on Gemistos Plethon; Secondary Texts; Index of Passages Quoted; General Index |
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George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition between the Byzantine Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His works cover literary, historical, scientific, but most notably philosophical issues. Plethon is arguably the most important of the Byzantine Platonists and the earliest representative of Platonism in the Renaissance. This book provides a new study of Gemistos' philosophy. The first part is dedicated to the discussion of his 'public philosophy', in the second, most extensive, part of the book the Platonism of Plethon |
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UNINA9910830441303321 |
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Autore |
Brecher Robert |
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Torture and the ticking bomb / / Bob Brecher |
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Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2007 |
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1-119-43136-0 |
1-282-34843-4 |
9786612348433 |
0-470-69164-6 |
1-280-93277-5 |
9786610932771 |
1-4051-6201-5 |
0-470-69248-0 |
1-4051-8202-4 |
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1 online resource (134 p.) |
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Blackwell public philosophy |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-116) and index. |
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Torture and the Ticking Bomb; Contents; Preface; 1: Introduction; What is Torture?; Dershowitz on Interrogational Torture; Why Write about Torture?; The Agenda; 2: The Fantasy of the Ticking Bomb Scenario; Dershowitz's Argument and the Ticking Bomb; Who Tortures?; Effectiveness and Time; Knowledge and Necessity; The Ticking Bomb Scenario: Conclusion; 3: The Consequences of Normalizing Interrogational Torture; Some Clarifi cations; Three Positive Claims about the Consequences of Legalizing Interrogational Torture; The Institutionalization of Interrogational Torture; A Torturous Society |
4: Torture, Death and PhilosophyTorture; Torture, Death and Interrogation; Why No Decent Society Can Torture; Torture, the ""War on Terror"" and Intellectual Irresponsibility; But What if Torture Really is the Only Possible Way to Avoid Catastrophe?; Two Final Points; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz's controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation.Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be counteredTakes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian groundsTimely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free styleForms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series |
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