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Donald Phillip Verene

Autor(a) de Sexual Love & Western Morality

21+ Works 187 Membros 2 Críticas

About the Author

Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and director of The Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University. His recent books include Moral Philosophy and the Modern World (2013), Vico's New Science (2015), Metaphysics and the Modern World mostrar mais (2016), and James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake (2016). He has been Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and is Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome. mostrar menos

Obras por Donald Phillip Verene

Sexual Love & Western Morality (1972) 24 exemplares
Vico's Science of Imagination (1981) 20 exemplares
The Art of Humane Education (2002) 13 exemplares
Vico and Joyce (1987) 11 exemplares
Speculative Philosophy (2009) 6 exemplares

Associated Works

The philosophy of symbolic forms (1923) — Editor, algumas edições88 exemplares
Globalization, Technology, and Philosophy (2004) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

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USA

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This is a book dedicated to the importance of and need to return philosophy to an approach found in the origins of philosophy found in Socratic humanism. This means reviving the ideal espoused in the slogan "know thyself". The examined life and the wisdom derived from the search and process of achieving such a life is one that the author believes is necessary to reform philosophy. He is careful to comment on process and in the concluding sections of the book provide a discussion of virtues. As a student of the classics and someone who admires the Socratic process of seeking knowledge through dialogic means I found this book encouraging and thought-provoking.… (mais)
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
21
Also by
2
Membros
187
Popularidade
#116,277
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
2
ISBN
47

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