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Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: MSU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 188
Pages: 188
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-31 - Publisher: SUNY Press
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Language: en
Pages: 226
Pages: 226
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-27 - Publisher: Penguin
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Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Socrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and indi
Language: en
Pages: 255
Pages: 255
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
It was Nietzsche who first identified the similarities between the radical sophistry of antiquity and the contemporary relativism that has come to characterize