Set in ancient Greece, this play is part of the Oresteia trilogy and explores themes of justice, revenge, and the consequences of war. Centered on the return of Agamemnon from the Trojan War, it delves into the complexities of familial relationships and the dark cycle of retribution. Winning first prize at the City Dionysia in 458 BC, it marks a significant moment in theatrical history, showcasing Aeschylus's profound insights into human nature and moral dilemmas.
Exploring the nature of philosophical ethics, the author examines how conventional moral theories often oversimplify complex moral landscapes. Central to her inquiry is the question of how individuals can discern the right course of action. She advocates for the cultivation of moral imagination as a means to navigate ethical dilemmas, suggesting that a richer understanding of morality emerges from engaging with real-life situations rather than adhering strictly to established theories.
‘I was four and three quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy...’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender. What is it really like to be transgender? What can we as a society do better to accept the reality of trans lives and to welcome and include trans adults, trans children, and trans families? How can trans people thrive in a cisgendered world? For too long now, clouds of myth, misinformation, alarmism, and wrong-headed ideology have masked the reality of trans people’s lives. By answering questions like these, this book blows away the clouds and gives us the truth instead. Rich, informative, and deeply moving, Trans Figured will be widely read and celebrated for years to come.
While for centuries friendship has fascinated and puzzled philosophers, they haven't always been able to fit it into their theories. The author explores friendship as something hard to deal with in the neat and tidy ways of philosophical theory — but nevertheless as one of the central goods of human experience.
Timothy Chappell's Reading Plato's Theaetetus offers a complete new translation of Plato's most famous dialogue on knowledge, together with an extended philosophical commentary. Timothy Chappell defends an original form of the Unitarian reading of the dialogue, arguing that Plato's aim in this enigmatic work is to show how little we can do towards defining or understanding knowledge, if we try to do it on an empiricist or naturalist basis. The book also contains a wealth of argument on subsidiary topics–the language of the dialogue, its date and place in Plato's development, and its relation to earlier and later Greek thought in general. Contents: Preface 1. About this book 2. About Plato and his works 3. About Platonic dialogues, and about the Theaetetus 4. The overall structure of the Theaetetus 5. Alternative interpretations of the Theaetetus as a whole 6. The introduction to the dialogue: 142a-145e 7. The question 'What is knowledge?', and the rejection of D0, a definition by examples: 145e7-147c6 8. A contrasting case: definition in mathematics: 147c7-148e5 9. Socrates the midwife's apprentice: 148e6-151d7 10. First definition (D1) and consequent discussion: 'Knowledge is perception': survey of 151-187 11. The statement of Theaetetus' first genuine definition (D1): 151d8-e4 12. First statement of Protagoras' views: 151e5-152c8 13. First statement of Heracleitus' views: 152c8-152e1