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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Bibliographie |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Bernard Arthur Owen Williams |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard Williams; Myles Burnyeat |
| ISBN: | 9780691124773 0691124779 |
| OCLC Number: | 60349072 |
| Description: | xxii, 393 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The legacy of Greek philosophy -- The women of Trachis : fictions, pessimism, ethics -- Understanding Homer : literature, history, and ideal anthropology -- Pagan justice and Christian love -- Introduction to Plato's Theaeteus -- Plato against the immoralist -- The analogy of city and soul in Plato's Republic -- Plato's construction of intrinsic goodness -- Cratylus' theory of names and its refutation -- Plato : The invention of philosophy -- Acting as the virtuous person acts -- Aristotle on the good : a formal sketch -- Justice as a virtue -- Hylomorphiam -- Descartes' use of skepticism -- Introductory essay on Descartes' Meditations -- Descartes and the historiography of philosophy -- Hume on religion -- The point of view of the universe : Sidgwick and the ambitions of ethics -- Nietzsche's minimalistic moral psychology -- Introduction to The gay science -- "There are many kinds of eyes" -- Unbearable suffering -- An essay on Collingwood -- Wittgenstein and idealism. |
| Responsibility: | Bernard Williams ; edited and with an introduction by Myles Burnyeat. |
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These discussions combine incisive authority and even a touch of technicality with Bernard Williams's characteristically urbane wit. A great intellectual wealth in which philosophy is made to show us how it thinks about philosophy. -- George Steiner Times Literary Supplement Bernard Williams' contribution to philosophy is timeless. He has a voice that is both distinctively of our time and a reminder that the past can still be brought alive philosophically. Williams' belief in the importance of history to philosophy is readily apparent in this collection. If for no other reason, readers of philosophy should value this book highly. -- Peter Johnson European Legacy Read more...

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