Richard Sorabji Knihy

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Sborník zkoumá některé aspekty Aristotelovy filozofie a logiky.

Cornelia Sorabji, India's first female lawyer, is portrayed as a complex figure who defies easy categorization. Ambitious and intellectually bold, she navigated her roles as a feminist advocate and loyal supporter of the British Raj while facing personal challenges, including a controversial relationship that threatened her career. The narrative explores her unique friendships and criticisms, particularly of Gandhi, and examines how she opened doors in both Indian and British societies. This compelling biography highlights her significant yet intricate contributions to history.

The narrative follows Allan Monkhouse, a groundbreaking engineer whose career started in rural New Zealand, where he maintained one of the nation's first generators. His journey takes him to Russia, where he witnesses the tumult of the Tsarist regime and the Russian Revolution, standing alongside Lenin in 1917. Facing a death sentence, Monkhouse's resilience shines as he escapes through Siberia, highlighting themes of survival and the impact of historical upheaval on individual lives.

This is the second volume of the new Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, which publishes lectures of prominent intellectuals and philosophers delivered annually on the Rutgers New Brunswick campus. Sir Richard Sorabji here examines free speech through a historical lens from antiquity up to today. He first traces the concept's origins in ancient India, Rome, and Greece, and follows its evolution through early Christian, medieval, and Arabic philosophy. He then evaluates historical threats to free speech in literary, political, and religious contexts, and various legal constraints that have attempted to protect it. He discusses the tension between the benefits of free speech and its frustations and abuses, and argues for the use of voluntary self-restraint on such speech that frustrates its benefits, citing for example the art identified by Gandhi as "opening ears." Finally, he closes with an analysis of free speech on social media and the abuse of personal data and voter manipulation. With Freedom of Speech and Expression, Sorabji provides a comprehensive overview of the topic informed by his distinct philosophical analysis and perceptive commentary.

Presents a study of ancient Greek views of the emotions and their influence on subsequent theories and attitudes, pagan and Christian. This book draws on a range of texts to give an historical survey of how Western thinking about this central aspect of human nature developed. schovat popis