Children of Athena: Proceedings of the 1998 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Global Academic Publishing) - Softcover

Shrader, Douglas W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883058678 ISBN 13: 9781883058678

Publisher: Distribution Partners, 1999

Synopsis

Presents select papers from the State University of New York College at Oneonta’s 1998 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.

This book presents select papers from the State University of New York College at Oneonta’s 1998 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. The papers are grouped under 6 headings: a) Classic Philosophical Issues; b) Asian and Comparative Philosophy; c) Poetry and Metaphor; d) Textual Analysis; e) Human Nature; and f) Keynote Addresses.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth A. Telford is Emeritus Professor and Chairman of the Division of Humanities, Chicago City College. He is a native of West Springfield, Mass., and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art before serving for over four years in the Air Corps in World War Two. After the war he did his undergraduate work at Denison University, and his graduate work at the University of Chicago. Besides teaching at the Chicago City Colleges, he also taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City. His first book, in 1958, in which he first introduced the study of scientific and philosophic procedure, was his translation and commentary on Aristotle's Poetics.

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As finite and temporal creatures, there exists to human beings perhaps no more obvious and absolute notion than the passing of time. We are beings who live in time and, as such, have matured personally and culturally with a strong acclimation to the presence, past, and futurity of time, both real and potential. This recognition is in and of itself no more philosophical than the recognition of length, width, ot breadth in the world about us............

About this edition

• Publisher: Distribution Partners
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1883058678
• ISBN 13: 9781883058678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348