Critical Essays on the ClassicsSeries

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• Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito

  Critical Essays

  • Rachana Kamtekar

  • 264 pages
  • 10 hours of reading

  Exploring Socrates' trial for impiety and corrupting youth, this collection of twelve essays delves into Plato's portrayal of the philosopher's defense of his beliefs and lifestyle. Leading classical philosophers analyze key themes, including the significance of Plato's characters, Socrates' innovative religious ideas, and the interplay between historical context and the texts. Through this examination, the volume offers insights into the philosophical implications of Socrates' life and the enduring relevance of his thoughts.

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• The Empiricists

  • Various authors

  • 278 pages
  • 10 hours of reading

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  A collection of essays on the work of John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, designed to provide a deeper understanding of major issues raised in the empiricist tradition. It includes The Rationalist Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz, edited by Derk Pereboom.

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• Aristotle's politics. Critical essays

  • Richard Kraut

  • 256 pages
  • 9 hours of reading

  Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle are uncertain whether his Politics has any contribution to make to contemporary debates about political life and political theory. The essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy. Written by leading scholars in lucid and accessible style, the nine essays in this volume will be a critical resource for newcomers to Aristotle.

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