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a Study of the Doctrine of Metempsychosis in Greece: from Pythagoras to Plato
"A dissertation presented to the faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the degree of doctor of philosophy"
On Aristotle's on Interpretation 1-8
Aristotle's On Interpretation, the centrepiece of his logic, examines the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements. The first eight chapters, analysed in this volume, explain what statements are, starting from their basic components--the…
Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith: An Inquiry
What is the true of Christian faith? Are the roots of this concept the same in both the Old and New Testaments? With semantic, historical, and analytic evidence, Kinneavy develops his hypothesis that the origin of some major aspects of the Christian…
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul
"Bremmer's goal is to present a picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He begins with the archaic age and Homeric epics, where the psyche is a 'free' soul which belongs to an individual and can leave…
The Heirs of Plato: a study of the Old Academy
"The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 B.C. - the period generally known as 'The…
