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Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
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Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
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Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Wilfred Bastiani Postmaster
be your own principle in life
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Engels | 51 pagina's | [Wilfred Leonard Bastiani], [Elburg] | 2022
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Abdu’l-Bahā Principles for progress
essays on religion and modernity
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Engels | Perzisch (Farsi) | 418 pagina's | Leiden University Press, [Leiden] | 2018
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J. Berting How to escape from the diabolic triangle?
followed by a short analysis of some other collective delusions
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Engels | 124 pagina's | Eburon, Delft | 2010
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Participation, responsibility and choice
summoning the active citizen in Western European welfare states
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Engels | 241 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 2011
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Sven Josepha Jan Braspenning Normative democratic theory and the realities of public moral disagreement: the case of deliberative ideals
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Engels | 211 pagina's | VUBPRESS, Brussel | 2012
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