The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment: A Two-Process Framework

1. Introduction 2. Fear, interest and honor 3. The spirit and its expression 4. The ancient world 5. Medieval Europe 6. From Sun King to Revolution 7. Imperialism and World War I 8. World War II 9. Hitler to Bush and beyond 10. General findings and conclusions.

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A Cultural Theory of International Relations

A companion to late Antiquity

The Cambridge history of classical literature.

I am a presentist: nothing exists which is not present. I say that this was believed by everyone, both the philosophers and the folk, until at least the nineteenth century; it is written into the grammar of every natural language; and it is still assumed in everday life even by philosophers who officially deny it. The content of this doctrine is not easy to grasp, is best explained by comparing presentism with its rivals, and will I hope become somewhat clearer during the course of this paper. Presentism was assumed by everyone everywhere, until a new conception of time began to trickle out of the high Newtonianism of the nineteenth century. The Christians' Holy Bible says that there is no new thing under the sun but this is not true, at least not in the sense which first comes to mind out of context. The so-called fourdimensionalist theory of time was something genuinely new, when it gradually came into being last century. Anti-presentist theories began to be articulated by philosophers late in the nineteenth century and have been expounded through the twentieth century. Bergson denied presentism and influenced literary figures like Proust and Eliot. Russell, Reichenbach, Smart, Quine, Lewis and many other anglophonic, analytic philosophers also denied presentism though in a different way. (I make no pretense to understand where Heidegger's Being and Time stands with respect to presentism and fourdimensionalism.) The defenders of fourdimensionalism are very impressive. I have, however, been encouraged in my hankering for presentism by papers and conversations with Phil Hanson, Steve Savitt, Mark Hinchliff, Andrew Holster, Caroline Lierse, David Oderberg, George Schlesinger and Quentin Smith and others. Furthermore, the exponential explosion of timetravel stories in the popular media, beginning late in the nineteenth century, is an indication that a very new conception of time is brewing in the Zeitgeist. The utter absence of any timetravel stories whatsoever prior to the nineteenth century is a profoundly puzzling fact. See references for Ash, Bailey, Davenport, Philips, Scholes and Rabkin for material on the emergence of

Presentism and properties

Preface Introduction Part I. Early Pyrrhonism: 1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue 2. Timon's polemics Part II. Epicureanism: 3. Physics 4. Epistemology 5. Ethics Part III. Stoicism: 6. The philosophical curriculum 7. Ontology logic and semantics 8. Epistemology (stoics and academics) 9. Physics 10. Ethics Part IV. The Academics: 11. Methodology 12. Living without opinions 13. Contributions to philosophical debates 14. The Pyrrhonist revival 15. Why to suspend judgement 16. How to suspend judgement Bibliography.

The Hellenistic philosophers

1. The scope of early Greek philosophy A. A. Long 2. Sources Jaap Mansfeld 3. The beginnings of cosmology Keimpe Algra 4. The Pythagorean tradition Carl A. Huffman 5. Heraclitus Edward Hussey 6. Parmenides and Melissus David Sedley 7. Zeno Richard D. McKirahan Jr 8. Empedocles and Anaxagoras: responses to Parmenides Daniel W. Graham 9. The atomists C. C. W. Taylor 10. Rational theology Sarah Broadie 11. Early interest in knowledge J. H. Lesher 12. Soul, sensation, and thought Andre Laks 13. Culpability, responsibility, cause: philosophy, historiography and medicine in the fifth century Mario Vegetti 14. Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias Paul Woodruff 15. Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice Fernanda DeCleva Caizzi 16. The poetics of early Greek philosophy Glenn W. Most.

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The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy

In what sense did the Hellenistic philosophers see themselves as the heirs or critics of Socrates? Was Socrates, in their view, a philosopher on whom Plato was the decisive authority? What doctrines or strategies of Socrates were thoroughly alive in this period? These are the principal questions I shall be asking in this paper, particularly the third. To introduce them, and to set the scene, I begin with some general points, starting from two passages which present an image of Socrates at the beginning and at the end of the Hellenistic era. Here first are three lines from the Silloi of the Pyrrhonean Timon of Phlius:From these matters (i.e. the inquiry into nature) he turned aside, the people-chiselling moralising ‘chatterer, the wizard of Greece, whose assertions were sharply pointed, master of the well-turned sneer, a pretty good ironist.

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Socrates in Hellenistic Philosophy

\"Hellenistic Philosophy\" is a thorough introduction to the three schools of philosophy which dominated the Hellenistic era: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism. It traces the main developments in Greek Philosophy during the period which runs from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the end of the Roman Republic 31 B.C.

Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics

For the lack of forty-nine drachmas Socrates was unable to attend the costly epideixis of Prodicus from which he would have learnt the truth about correct use of words (Plato, Cra. 384b). From Prodicus' ὥραι Socrates could also have learnt the concepts and characteristic words associated with arete and kakia: these compete in that work for the allegiance of Heracles, parading their respective characteristics. Thanks to Professor Arthur Adkins we have had for the past decade a book which not only confronts arete and kakia, but also analyses the meaning and usage of many Greek words for the evaluation of action from Homer to Aristotle. The importance of this book is generally acknowledged but it has not received the detailed discussion it deserves. Professor Adkins finds the social structure of ancient Greece inimical to the development of an adequate concept of moral responsibility. He shows, in a most interesting manner, how Greek values changed as the needs of society changed.

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A. A. Long

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The Hellenistic philosophers

The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy

Socrates in Hellenistic Philosophy

Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics

Morals and values in Homer