One of the oldest of all thought experiments is the paradox known as the Ship of Theseus, which originated in the writings of Plutarch. It describes a ship that remained seaworthy for hundreds of years thanks to constant repairs and replacement parts. As soon as one plank became old and rott...
One of the oldest of all thought experiments is the paradox known as the Ship of Theseus, which originated in the writings of Plutarch. 史上最为古老的思想实验之一便是被称为忒修斯之船的悖论。这个实验最早出自普鲁塔克的记载。 dongxi.net 4. But all this has happened in order that the writings...
Plutarch's "Advice to the bride and groom" and "A consolation to his wife" : english translation, commentary, interpretive essays and bibliography / edited... The collection presented here looks at two important short works from Plutarch's writings in moral philosophy; The Advice to the Bride...
of his varied literary production.The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly wide-ranging and the studies collected here inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch's writings were separated into two distinct corpora , his methods of work ...
Not the judges who condemned the guardians.The Athenian courts of justice were not the purest in the world; but their decisions were at least as likely to be just as the abuse of a deadly enemy.Mr Mitford refers for confirmation of his statement to Aeschines and Plutarch.Aeschines by no ...
(virtuosi), to take up architecture as a gentlemanly activity; a pursuit widely accepted as a branch of applied mathematics. This is implicit in the writings ofVitruviusand explicit in such 16th century authors asJohn DeeandLeonard Digges. When Wren was a student at Oxford, he became ...
5. Plutarch, Aristotle, and the Peripatetics Summary There is almost general agreement among scholars not only in admitting Plutarch's familiarity with Aristotle's writings, but also in recognizing th... M Beck - Blackwell Publishing Ltd 被引量: 1发表: 2013年 The Philosopher's Banquet: ...
Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and ...
He had seen Elizabeth's death coming, and in 1602 he had publishedA Tract on the Succession to the Crown.He had compiled writings from the "Papists, Protestants, and Purytans" to convince the whole spectrum of English opinion of the validity of the Scottish Stuart claim to the English thro...