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In the third century BCE, the ancient kingdom of Macedon held dominion over mainland Greece, but it was rapidly descending into chaos. After Alexander the Great's death, several of his successors contended for the Macedonian throne, and amid the tumult the Celts launched a massive invasion, ravaging and plundering Macedon and northern Greece for years. The Celts finally met their defeat at the hands of Antigonus Gonatas, son of one of Alexander's...
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Born in the mountains of northern Lebanon, Kahlil Girbran (1883-1931) -mystic, society philosopher, author of one of the most enduring works of the 20th century, The Prophet -immigrated to the United States in 1895. A gifted artist, who specialized in painting for some years before he turned to writing, Gibran -although initially spurned by those whose approval he sought -was in time beloved by a number of prominent avant-gardists and hobnobbed with...
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Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he...
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Pocos se atreverían a afirmar que Platón sea el único padre de la filosofía, pero eso es lo que se defiendeen este libro, siguiendo la línea del filósofo inglés Alfred North Whitehead cuando afirmó que «la historia dela filosofía occidental no es más que una serie de notas al pie de página de Platón». Pese a todo, se sabemuy poco del hombre que fue Platón, y no se ha escrito ninguna biografía merecedora de tal nombre en losúltimos...
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Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus's enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced...
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"Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series! When Alexander was a boy in ancient Macedon, he already had grand ambitions. He complained that his father, the great king of Macedon, wasn't leaving anything for him to conquer! This, of course, was not the case. King Alexander went on to control most of the known world of the time. His victories won him many supporters, but they also earned him enemies. This easy-to-read...