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De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle Aristotle, Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the eme ...Show more
Equine Fitness: A Conditioning Program of Exercises and Routines for Your Horse by Jec Aristotle Ballou
Category: Animals & Nature
From Jec Aristotle Ballou, author of Storey's best-selling "101 Dressage Exercises", comes "Equine Fitness", a guide to getting a horse in shape and maintaining his overall fitness, regardless of age or discipline. A horse's health is a critical concern for every equestrian - from the backyard owner who ...Show more
How to Flourish An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
Category: Gift Books | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully a ...Show more
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking by Aristotle
Category: Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions — democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural canons, dra ...Show more
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
Category: Humour | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle’s Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of g ...Show more
I Am Goat - 2024 Wall Calendar by Kevin Horan (Photographer); Hypatia of Alexandria (Text by); Aristotle; Lao Tzu (Text by); Cicero (Text by); Amber Lotus Publishing
Category: Calendars
Goats have captured our imaginations for thousands of years. They're clever, mischievous, and amazingly humanlike. This wall calendar puts goats in the spotlight as photographer Kevin Horan presents them in a unique and compelling way. Paired with quotes from some of history's great thinkers, the black- ...Show more
Metaphysics by Aristotle
Category: Science
Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Soc ...Show more
Metaphysics, Volume I - Books 1-9 by Aristotle; Hugh Tredennick (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367?47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor a ...Show more
Metaphysics, Volume II - Books 10-14 by Hugh Tredennick; G. Cyril Armstrong; Aristotle
Category: Philosophy | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor a ...Show more
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In this classic text, Aristotle extols a variety of virtues valued by the ancient Greeks and their world. Within, Aristotle gives the reader a schema for understanding both ancient and trans-historical ideas on virtue and relating well to others. His vocabulary and concepts regularly pop up in other wor ...Show more
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle; Terence Irwin (Translator)
Category: Reference
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", he ass ...Show more
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Category: Reference
The "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence - found their most powerful proponent in the pe ...Show more