The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Title | The Ancient Guide to Modern Life PDF eBook |
Author | Natalie Haynes |
Publisher | Abrams |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2012-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1468300792 |
“A wonderfully whimsical yet instructional view of Greco-Roman history.” —Kirkus Reviews In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including philosophy, politics, language, and art, it also draws illuminating connections between antiquity and our present time, to demonstrate that the Greeks and Romans were not so different from ourselves: Is Bart Simpson the successor to Aristophanes? Do the Beckhams have parallel lives with The Satiricon’s Trimalchio? Along the way Haynes debunks myths (gladiators didn’t salute the emperor before their deaths, and the last words of Julius Caesar weren’t “et tu, brute?”). From Athens to Zeno's paradox, this irresistible guide shows how the history and wisdom of the ancient world can inform and enrich our lives today. “A romp through some of the best-known, and some of the more obscure, writers, thought, and stories of Greece and Rome.” —Times Literary Supplement
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science
Title | Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | Stanislav Grof |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 1984-06-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780873958493 |
A critical revaluation of ancient spiritual systems long ignored or rejected because of their assumed incompatibility with science. Here are Swami Muktananda on the mind, Swami Prajnananda on Karma, Swami Kripananda on the Kundalini, Joseph Chilton Pearce on spiritual development, Jack Kornfield on Buddhism for Americans, Claudio Naranjo on meditation, and much more.
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Title | Democracy Ancient and Modern PDF eBook |
Author | M. I. Finley |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 147 |
Release | 2018-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978802323 |
Leaders and followers -- Athenian demagogues -- Democracy, consensus and the national interest -- Socrates and after -- Censorship in classical antiquity.
Saints
Title | Saints PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Calamari |
Publisher | Avery |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Christian saints |
ISBN | 9780670038497 |
This comprehensive collection of the most enduring and enigmatic saints brings them to life through iconography, art, and story. Each profile includes a biography with canonization, patronage, feast dates, and prayers to and about each saint in a beautiful full-color format.
Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern
Title | Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald L. Bruns |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780300063035 |
In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories going back to before the beginning of writing. What does it mean to understand a riddle, an action, a concept, a law, an alien culture, or oneself? Bruns expands our sense of the horizons of hermeneutics by situating its basic questions against a background of different cultural traditions and philosophical topics. He discusses, for example, the interpretation of oracles, the silencing of the muses and the writing of history, the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, the canonization of sacred texts, the nature of allegorical exegesis, rabbinical midrash, the mystical exegesis of the Qur'an, the rise of literalism and the individual interpreter, and the nature of Romantic hermeneutics. Dealing with thinkers ranging from Socrates to Luther to Wordsworth to Ricoeur, Bruns also ponders several basic dilemmas about the nature of hermeneutical experience, the meaning of tradition, the hermeneutical function of narrative, and the conflict between truth and freedom in philosophy and literature. His eloquent book demonstrates the continuing power of hermeneutical thinking to open up questions about the world and our place in it.
Ancient & Modern
Title | Ancient & Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Muecke |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780868407869 |
How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge? There's a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity.
Ancient and Modern Britons
Title | Ancient and Modern Britons PDF eBook |
Author | David MacRitchie |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Blacks |
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