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Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion in the name of science; others attacked science in the name of mystical poetry; some served tyrants; others were radical revolutionaries. This historically based collection of philosophers' reflections--the letters, journals, prefaces that reveal their hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest doubts and convictions--allow us to witness philosophical thought-in-process. It sheds light on the many--and conflicting--aims of philosophy: to express skepticism or overcome it, to support theology or attack it, to develop an ethical system or reduce it to practical politics. As their audiences differed, philosophers experimented with distinctive rhetorical strategies, writing dialogues, meditations, treatises, aphorisms. Ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt, with contributions from 44 philosophers (Augustine, Maimonides, AlGhazali, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, among others) this remarkable collection documents philosophers' claim that they change as well as understand the world. In her introductory essay, "Witnessing Philosophers," Amelie Rorty locates philosophers' reflections in the larger context of the many facets of their other activities and commitments.
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9780195134025 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 12, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death.
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9780195176551 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 15, 2004, cover price $44.95
Product Description: This is the first anthology to present the full range of the many forms evil. Amelie Rorty has assembled a collection of readings that include not only the most common forms of evil, such as vice, sin, cruelty and crime, but also some which are less well known, such disobedience and willfulness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415242066 | Routledge, July 3, 2001, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This is the first anthology to present the full range of the many forms evil.
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9780415242073 | Routledge, July 1, 2001, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This is the first anthology to present the full range of the many forms evil.
Product Description: Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education. As Amelie Rorty explains, in describing a history of education, we are essentially describing and gaining the clearest understanding of the issues that presently concern and divide us...read more
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9780415191302 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $175.00
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9780415191319 | Routledge, November 1, 1998, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education.
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9780520202283 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, June 1, 1996, cover price $36.95
Product Description: Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory of rhetoric, as it affects political and legal argumentation, has been continuous and far-reaching...read more
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9780520202276 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work.
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9780198244615 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 14, 1992, cover price $65.00
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9780198236009 | Reprint edition (Clarendon Pr, December 21, 1995), cover price $65.00
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9780262061155 | Mit Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $52.50
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9780262560740 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, August 26, 1993), cover price $40.00
Product Description: Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics...read more
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9780691068725 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context.
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9780691014982 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 10, 1992, cover price $46.00
Discusses the philosophical concept of personality, and looks at emotions, jealousy, adaptivity, the fear of death, moral myths, virtue, and imagination
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9780807014059 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, May 1, 1991), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Discusses the philosophical concept of personality, and looks at emotions, jealousy, adaptivity, the fear of death, moral myths, virtue, and imagination
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9780520055094 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, July 1, 1986, cover price $41.95
Product Description: The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history. Part of the fascination has been that the emotions resist classification. As adequate account therefore requires receptivity to knowledge from a variety of sources...read more
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9780520037755 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 1980, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history.
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9780520039216 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1980, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history.
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9780520033092 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, June 1, 1976, cover price $33.95
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