Author: Siegel, Charles
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Classical Greek Art: From the Age of Phidias to the Age of Praxiteles
Price: $6.99
Publisher: Omo Press : November 2020
Seller ID: 473943
ISBN-13: 9781941667309
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
This book is the clearest and most concise introduction to Greek art of the classical age, which has influenced Western art for millennia. Most surveys of classical art include artists whose works do not survive and whom we only know through descriptions in ancient writers-which is of historical interest but is not useful to most readers, since we cannot appreciate artists without seeing their art.This book includes all the classical artists whose work survives, with summaries of what we know about their lives and with illustrations of their works, making it very easy to compare the artists an...
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Ethics: What We Still Know After a Skeptical Age
Price: $6.98
Publisher: Preservation Institute : October 2009
Seller ID: 398796
ISBN-13: 9780978872830
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Modern philosophers rejected classical ethics because they believed in the logical principle that we cannot derive "ought statements" from "is statements." This book shows that this logical principle if false. You can derive "ought statements" from teleological "is statements," statements about function, goal, or purpose. In reality, philosophers rejected classical ethics because they rejected Aristotle's teleological view of nature. In the seventeenth century, philosophers accepted the new physics, which explained nature on the basis of mechanical causes, not of goals. If nature is not teleol...
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