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A Free Will
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"As readers will quickly discover, the quality of the text that [Frede] has bequeathed fully matches the brilliance and incisiveness for which all his work is a
Apocalypse of the Alien God
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Authors: Dylan M. Burns
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-19 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speakin
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
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This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In e