Steven Nadler The philosopher, the priest, and the painter

a portrait of Descartes

Naar aanleiding van het naar alle waarschijnlijkheid door Frans Hals geschilderde portret van de Franse filosoof (1596-1650) wordt de filosofie van Descartes uitgelegd, waarbij de driehoeksverhouding tussen Descartes, Bloemaert en Hals centraal staat.

Engels | 230 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton | 2015

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The reception of Erasmus in the early modern period

Non-fictie

Engels | 275 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2013

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Sarah B. Pomeroy Pythagorean women

their history and writings

This book discusses the principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, such as constituting a single standard of sexual conduct for women and men. Among the Pythagoreans, women played an important role and participated actively in the philosophical life. While Pythagoras encouraged women to be submissive to men, his reasoning was based on the desire to preserve harmony in the home. This book provides English translations of all the earliest extant examples of literary...

Engels | 172 pagina's | The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore | 2013

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