Agonistes: Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien.0754653528 Agonistes; essays in honour of Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien, (born April 19 1958 in County Cork), is an Irish entrepreneur. An Arts graduate of University College Dublin, O'Brien received an MBA in corporate finance from Boston College in 1982, he holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin. . Ed. by John Dillon
Ashgate Publishing Co. 2005 289 pages $99.95 Hardcover B162 In a charming and succinct explanations of the academic life, O'Brien describes his excitement at coming into a new time of his academic life, in which his time would be all his own. Judging from the collection of 19 essays, however, it appears O'Brien was instead very generous with his time, giving it to colleagues and students as they worked through their own thoughts on the presocratics through the age of Augustine and beyond. Their topics here are various and include a plethora of gods, the concept of Damon, the world when it is abandoned to itself, Platonism in a new light and when it bites, refutation ref·u·ta·tion also re·fut·al n. 1. The act of refuting. 2. Something, such as an argument, that refutes someone or something. Noun 1. and dialectic, the good, opinion and judgment, human nature, stoicism Stoicism (stō`ĭsĭzəm), school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium (in Cyprus) c.300 B.C. The first Stoics were so called because they met in the Stoa Poecile [Gr. , evil in Plotinus and as interpreted by O'Brien, musical metaphors, the cosmic cycle of Empedocles and the issue of the pseudo Empedocles, neoplatonic ethics, Augustine on God, and spiritual fornication Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are not married to each other. Under the Common Law, the crime of fornication consisted of unlawful sexual intercourse between an unmarried woman and a man, regardless of his marital status. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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