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When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion in the Hellenic world, however, was the most obvious one: speech. It explores how it was the capacity for authoritative speech which was held to separate humans from other animals, gods from humans, men from women, Greeks from non-Greeks, citizens from slaves, and the mundane from the heroic. John Heath illustrates how Homer... View more info

Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

By: Neil Smith

Price: $21.25

Publisher: Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press: 2004

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 012738

Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectual figures of modern times. He has had a major influence on linguistics, psychology and philosophy, and a significant effect on many other disciplines, from anthropology to mathematics, education to literary criticism. In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky’s work and influence, Neil Smith analyses Chomsky’s key contributions to the study of language and the study of mind. He gives a detailed exposition of Chom... View more info

Kant's Concept of the Sublime: A Pathway to the Numinous

By: Pabitrakumar Roy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Decent Books in Association with Department of Special Assistance in Philosophy, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 009162

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Category: History & Surveys

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The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus and Plato

Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

Kant's Concept of the Sublime: A Pathway to the Numinous