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  • How to Keep an Open Mind

    An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic

    de Sextus Empiricus, Richard Bett ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • How to Be a Pyrrhonist

    The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism

    de Richard Bett ...
    What was it like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism? This important volume brings together for the first time a selection of Richard Bett's essays on ancient Pyrrhonism, allowing readers a better understanding of the key aspects of this school of thought. The volume examines Pyrrhonism's manner of self-presentation, including its methods of writing, its desire to show how special it is, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Enemies of Intelligence

    Knowledge and Power in American National Security

    de Richard Betts ...
    The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security. These failures convinced the American public that their intelligence system was broken and prompted a radical reorganization of agencies and personnel, but as Richard K. Betts argues in this book, critics and ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines

    Translated with introduction and notes

    de Richard Bett ...
    Against Those in the Disciplines (Pros Mathêmatikous, also known by the abbreviated title M 1-6) deals with six specialized fields of study: grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music. In sceptical fashion, it questions the credentials of those who claim to have expert knowledge in these fields. It is the least well known of Sextus Empiricus' works, mainly because its subject ... Leer más

    $75.99 USD

  • Conflict After the Cold War

    Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

    Edición de Richard Betts ...
    Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard K. Betts’s Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth, the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage in key debates over the future of war and the new forms that ... Leer más

    $165.99 USD

  • American Force

    Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security

    de Richard Betts ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties have pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing the country's military frequently yet often hesitantly, with inconsistent justification. These ventures ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Sextus Empiricus

    de Richard Bett ...
    Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as god, cause and effect, whole and part, bodies, place, motion, time, number, coming into being and perishing and is the most extensive surviving treatment of these topics by an ancient Greek sceptic. Sextus scrutinizes the theories of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism

    Edición de Richard Bett ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Plant Genetic Resources and Climate Change

    de Gerald Moore, Robert Zeigler, Richard Betts, Pam Berry, Andy Jarvis, Nora Castaneda Alvarez, William Erskine, Abdelbagi Ismail, Geoff Hawtin, Kenneth McNally, Helen Ougham, Ianto Thomas, Mauricio Bellon, Sue Armstrong, Wayne Powell, PV Prasad, John Sheehy, Hari Upadhyaya, David Mackill, Jeremy Pritchard, Ben Vosman, Colette Broekgaarden, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Professor Nigel Maxted ...
    Series Libro 20 - CABI Climate Change Series
    * Provides specific examples of germplasm research related to climate change threats * Edited by internationally renowned experts in the field * The final chapter of the book draws a synthesis of the many issues raised within the book ... Leer más

    $156.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    How to Keep an Open Mind

    An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic

    de Sextus Empiricus, Richard Bett ...
    Narrado por Tom Parks ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

    Completo

    2 hora 27 minutos

    How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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    The Socratic Method

    A Practitioner’s Handbook

    de Ward Farnsworth ...
    Narrado por John Lescault ...

    Completo

    7 hora 47 minutos

    A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about life’s big questions.About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus

    de Daniel S. Werner ...
    Plato's dialogues frequently criticize traditional Greek myth, yet Plato also integrates myth with his writing. Daniel S. Werner confronts this paradox through an in-depth analysis of the Phaedrus, Plato's most mythical dialogue. Werner argues that the myths of the Phaedrus serve several complex functions: they bring nonphilosophers into the philosophical life; they offer a starting point for ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD