LIBROS DEL AUTOR: donald phillip verene

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  • The Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well. Philosophical and Historical Reflections on Food and Dining in Culture
    Donald Phillip Verene
    The Science of Cookery and the Art of Eating Well is a philosophical and historical reflection on food and dining in human culture. It includes discussions of the nature of the first meals as found in Greek literature and the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico, the Roman cookbook of Apicius (the first known cookbook), the cookbook of Artusi (the seminal cookbook of Ital...
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    31,63 €

  • The Philosophy of Literature
    Donald Phillip Verene
    The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers of the Italian Renaissance and the German Idealism of Hegel. It then treats th...
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  • Metaphysics and the Modern World
    Donald Phillip Verene
    Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle’s claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy begins in wonder. The first three chapters concern the origin of metaphysics ...
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  • Moral Philosophy and the Modern World
    Donald Phillip Verene
    This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue. In Part 1, it draws upon Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero and the works of Renaissance Christian humanists who were influenced by them, such as Pico, Vives, and Erasmus. The moral act guided by the cardinal virtues and the good is seen as the key to human happine...
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    20,60 €