Scott

LEVELS OF ARGUMENT C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780199249640
• ISBN-10: 0199249644
• Artikelnr.: 47867583

Autorenporträt

Dominic Scott was awarded a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1988 and taught there in the Faculty of Philosophy and Clare College until 2007. Since then has been at the University of Virginia, and has now returned to the UK, teaching ethics and politics at the University of Kent. He has also held visiting positions at Oxford, Princeton and Harvard. From 2001 to 2003 he was a British Academy Research Reader. He has lectured extensively: in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. He has also done a great deal of work bringing philosophy into the public arena, working with government, civil service and business, and has co-authored a report on the worldwide state of the humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One
1: The shorter route in Republic II-IV
2: The adequacy of the shorter route
3: The longer route
4: The role of metaphysics in Republic VIII-IX
5: The cave allegory and the structure of the Republic
Part Two
6: Political science and the longer route
7: The limits of precision
8: Explanation in NE I 4 and 7
9: Aristotle and the race course
10: The 'endoxic method'
Conclusion
Bibliography