Product Description: This book argues that the works of Aristotle and Sophocles demonstrate their belief that the purpose of tragedy is to educate audience members and help them attain practical wisdom. This book applies many of the categories in Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics and Rhetoric" to the three main characters in Sophocles' play, "Philoctetes: Neoptolemus, Odysseus and Philoctetes"...read more

Product Description: Presents the spiritual odyssey of a woman whose personal experiences offer insight into the ideas and values of the progressive Christian tradition, and of the classical philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle.

Product Description: This is an application of Jung to a reading of the texts of Plato and demonstrates how a psychoanalytic practice can provide a framework for textual analysis. This pursuit also reveals how the analysis of these thinkers has much to say about liberal arts education.

Product Description: Present the philosophical life as a path out of tragedy and as an understanding of how the character of Socrates exemplifies that life. This study is in response to Martha Nussbaum's interpretation of Plato in The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy...read more

Product Description: Present the philosophical life as a path out of tragedy and as an understanding of how the character of Socrates exemplifies that life. This study is in response to Martha Nussbaum's interpretation of Plato in The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy...read more

Product Description: Present the philosophical life as a path out of tragedy and as an understanding of how the character of Socrates exemplifies that life. This study is in response to Martha Nussbaum's interpretation of Plato in The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy...read more

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