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  • Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's Republic by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's Republic

    To the vast literature on Plato's Republic comes a new interpretation. In Beautiful City, David Roochnik argues convincingly that Plato's masterpiece is misunderstood by modern readers. The work must, he explains, be read dialectically, its parts understood as forming a unified whole. Approached in...
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  • Deaths of Famous Philosophers: An Imaginative History of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Deaths of Famous Philosophers: An Imaginative History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

    Deaths of Famous Philosophers is inspired by Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, a third-century CE anthology of biographical sketches of Greek philosophers. Each of its twenty-three chapters is a fictionalized depiction of the protagonists when they are near death and are taking...
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  • Deaths of Famous Philosophers: An Imaginative History of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Deaths of Famous Philosophers: An Imaginative History of Ancient Greek Philosophy

    Deaths of Famous Philosophers is inspired by Diogenes Laertius's Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, a third-century CE anthology of biographical sketches of Greek philosophers. Each of its twenty-three chapters is a fictionalized depiction of the protagonists when they are near death and are taking...
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  • Eat, Drink, Think: What Ancient Greece Can Tell Us about Food and Wine by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Eat, Drink, Think: What Ancient Greece Can Tell Us about Food and Wine

    What role does food play in the shaping of humanity? Is sharing a good meal with friends and family an experience of life at its best, or is food merely a burdensome necessity? David Roochnik explores these questions by discussing classical works of Greek...
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  • Of Art and Wisdom: Plato's Understanding of Techne by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Of Art and Wisdom: Plato's Understanding of Techne

    A comprehensive discussion of Plato's treatment of techne (technical knowledge), which shows that the final goal of Platonic philosophy is nontechnical wisdom. The Greek word "techne," typically translated as "art," but also as "craft," "skill," "expertise," "technical knowledge," and even "science," has been decisive...
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  • Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Retrieving the Ancients: An Introduction to Greek Philosophy

    "Two Reasons to Study Ancient Greek Philosophy Ancient Greek philosophy began with Thales, who correctly predicted an eclipse that occurred in 585 BCE, and culminated in the monumental works of Aristotle, who died in 322.1 (Unless otherwise noted, all dates in this book are...
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  • The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos

    The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. Its enemies range from Descartes, who complains that logos is not sufficiently useful or precise, to Derrida who hopes to liberate Western thought from its bondage to "logocentrism." At...
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  • Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates by Roochnik, David
    David Roochnik

    Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates

    Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates presents a highly accessible introduction to five of the most fundamental debates in world philosophy. Introduces five fundamental philosophical debates in a highly engaging and accessible manner that invites readers to enter the discussion themselves Features...
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