This classic work by Hans-Georg Gadamer-now translated into English for the first time-offers an extensive and imaginative interpretation of Plato's Philebus. Gadamer's earliest book, it also provides an ideal introduction to his thinking, showing how his influential hermeneutics emerged from his application of his teacher Martin Heidegger's phenomenological method to classical...(展开全部)

In "The Tragedy and Comedy of Life", Seth Benardete focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato's most challenging and complex dialogs, the Philebus. Traditionally the Philebus is interpreted as affirming the doctrine that the good resides in thought and mind rather than in pleasure or the body. Benardete challenges this view, arguing that Socrate...(展开全部)

"Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle", the text of a lecture course presented at the University of Freiburg in the winter of 1921 and 1922, was first published in 1985 as volume 61 of Heidegger's collected works. Preceding "Being and Time", the work shows Heidegger attempting, through the use of novel vocabulary, to find his personal philosophical voice. Heidegger tak...(展开全部)

The Phenomenological Mind is the first book to properly introduce fundamental questions about the mind from the perspective of phenomenology. Key questions and topics covered include: what is phenomenology? naturalizing phenomenology and the cognitive sciences phenomenology and consciousness consciousness and self-consciousness time and consciousness intentionality...(展开全部)

This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts of education, human motivation, knowledge and understanding. In a clear systematic fashion, this b...(展开全部)

This full-length study of Plato's dialogue Phaedrus, now in paperback, is written in the belief that such concerted scrutiny of a single dialogue is an important part of the project of understanding Plato so far as possible 'from the inside' - of gaining a feel for the man's philosophy. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argu...(展开全部)

'Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world.' In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 伯纳德•威廉斯（Bernard Williams，1929—2003） 20世纪最杰出的哲学家之一，先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校。其主要研究领域是伦理学、知识论、心灵哲学和政治哲学。威廉斯对功利主义和康德伦理学的批判，以及对道德和道德要求的本质的探究，主导了近五十年来西方伦理理论的思考，可以说是我们时代最重要的道德哲学家。主要著作包括《道德：伦理学导论》《道德运气》《伦理学与哲学的限度》《羞耻与必然性》等。 【译者简介】 魏犇群 香港中文大学哲学博士，现为中国人民大学哲学院讲师、杰出青年学者。主要研究领域为当代英美道德哲学，特别是元伦理学，以及心灵哲学。

In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relative morality, testin...(展开全部)