Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1196921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang-Rainer Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang-Rainer |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discovery of Things
Diogenes Laertius
Reviewed by: Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Pamela Mensch Wolfgang-Rainer Mann Pamela Mensch (tr.) and James Miller (ed.). Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 676. $ 45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-086217-6. The high production quality here stands out: heavy, genuinely opaque paper; generous line spacing and margins; and, especially, more than 100 beautiful illustra…
How Platonic Are Schopenhauer’s Platonic Ideas
On two Stoic ‘paradoxes’ in Manilius
Manilius in effect holds that each person possesses reason and so can benefit from his teaching; hence, his approach looks egalitarian, his teaching, universal. But sometimes he addresses only a select few, who now seem like privileged acolytes. The universe is fully rational and divine, and accordingly wants each rational being to understand its principles: the celestial bodies and nature as a whole are transparent to reason. Yet Manilius also m…
Learning How to Die
The Discovery of Things
The Discovery of Things
The Origins of the Modern Historiography of Ancient Philosophy
A new approach to historiography of history of was first proposed near end of eighteenth century. It is useful to regard it as an alternative to two others, sometimes conceived of as exhausting possibilities: a purely approach, and a purely historical one, both of which I consider in section I. The bulk of article is devoted to what I call the historiography of history of philosophy (briefly characterized in section II). Its origins are closely t…
No prominent works on this page.
The Origins of the Modern Historiography of Ancient Philosophy
A new approach to historiography of history of was first proposed near end of eighteenth century. It is useful to regard it as an alternative to two others, sometimes conceived of as exhausting possibilities: a purely approach, and a purely historical one, both of which I consider in section I. The bulk of article is devoted to what I call the historiography of history of philosophy (briefly characterized in section II). Its origins are closely t…
The Discovery of Things
The Discovery of Things
Learning How to Die
On two Stoic ‘paradoxes’ in Manilius
Manilius in effect holds that each person possesses reason and so can benefit from his teaching; hence, his approach looks egalitarian, his teaching, universal. But sometimes he addresses only a select few, who now seem like privileged acolytes. The universe is fully rational and divine, and accordingly wants each rational being to understand its principles: the celestial bodies and nature as a whole are transparent to reason. Yet Manilius also m…
How Platonic Are Schopenhauer’s Platonic Ideas
Discovery of Things
Diogenes Laertius
Reviewed by: Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Pamela Mensch Wolfgang-Rainer Mann Pamela Mensch (tr.) and James Miller (ed.). Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 676. $ 45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-086217-6. The high production quality here stands out: heavy, genuinely opaque paper; generous line spacing and margins; and, especially, more than 100 beautiful illustra…
Philosophy (6 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 work)