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To know epistemology's history is to know better what contemporary epistemology could be and perhaps should be - and what it need not be and perhaps ought not to be. Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Covering the Presocratics, Sophists, and treatments of knowledge offered by Socrates and Plato, this volume offers insights into the v...

Explains how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy.

Few would doubt that Plato intends to portray Socrates as an exemplar of human excellence. In Plato's Apology, Socrates cites the authority of Delphi in support of his claim to be the wisest of men (23b2), if only because he is so well aware of his own ignorance. Later in that same dialogue, we learn that Socrates also realizes that, he has a reputation for being "superior to the majority of human beings"1 (35a1) and the context make clear tha...

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The result of extensive archival investigation, this meticulously researched book collects and describes for the first time the extant literary manuscripts and letters of the celebrated Bluestocking writer and Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833). Participating in the ongoing recovery of eighteenth-century women writers, Nicholas D. Smith's survey is an indispensable reference work not only for More scholars but for those researc...

Heb dowt vÿth yth o Caradar (A. S. D. Smith, 1883- 1950) an gwella scrifor a Gernowek a dhedhyow avarr an dasserghyans. Y fÿdh kefys i'n lyver-ma try rew a whedhlow dhyworth y bluven ev hag a veu gwelys rag an kensa prÿs lies bledhen alebma. An kensa bagas a whedhlow yw kemerys in mes a'y gùntellyans "Nebes Whedhlow Ber" (1948), yma an secùnd rew a whedhlow kemerys dhyworth y lyver "Whethlow an Seyth Den Fur a Rom" (1948), ha'n tressa bagas a ...