Nathan Gilbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Gilbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbert |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The many faces of friar Domingo Navarrete
This paper reconstructs the European philosophical afterlife of the Dominican missionary Domingo Navarrete (1618–1686) and examines how his writings on China and Confucius were received, transformed, and redeployed in late seventeenth-century Europe. Focusing on two influential readers, Antoine Arnauld and John Locke, it traces how Navarrete's critique of Jesuit accommodationist strategies in China was appropriated for distinct theological and ph…
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's defeat of Pompey's forces at Munda and return to Rome as dictator was causing him great fears and concerns for himself, his friends and the Republic itself. This collection of new essays offers a holistic critical commentary on this important work…
Cicero’s De morte
Tusculans 1 offers a multi-faceted refutation of the proposition ‘death is an evil’, accomplished in part through a detailed doxography of a wide range of philosophers of different schools. This survey is far from a jumble of contradictory views, however: Cicero avoids dogmatic insistence on the arguments of any single school and has instead crafted a minimally sectarian protreptic designed to convince readers of any philosophical persuasion that…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works, from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the morality of political arguments, to the means of justifying the us…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
Lucius Saufeius and His Lost Prehistory of Rome
HE SCATTERED EVIDENCE FOR the life and activities of Lucius Saufeius allows us to catch glimpses of a colorful, opinionated, and well-connected Roman knight who chose to abstain from political office and instead devoted himself to the cultivation of literary interests and the study of Epicurean philosophy. Saufeius is precisely the sort of individual who is usually invisible to the modern historian, and for that reason he offers a valuable, concr…
The Trouble With Triumph
The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these n…
A Type of Bias in Marking Examination Scripts
S ummary . We consider the hypothesis that, in some circumstances, the variance of the marks awarded by an examiner will increase with the number of scripts he has marked. We test this hypothesis on the data of fifty‐four different class‐lists, and find a small but highly significant effect of the sort predicted. We consider various possible alternative explanations of the observed effect, and conclude that there is fairly strong evidence of the …
The Trouble With Triumph
The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these n…
A Type of Bias in Marking Examination Scripts
S ummary . We consider the hypothesis that, in some circumstances, the variance of the marks awarded by an examiner will increase with the number of scripts he has marked. We test this hypothesis on the data of fifty‐four different class‐lists, and find a small but highly significant effect of the sort predicted. We consider various possible alternative explanations of the observed effect, and conclude that there is fairly strong evidence of the …
The Trouble With Triumph
The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these n…
Lucius Saufeius and His Lost Prehistory of Rome
HE SCATTERED EVIDENCE FOR the life and activities of Lucius Saufeius allows us to catch glimpses of a colorful, opinionated, and well-connected Roman knight who chose to abstain from political office and instead devoted himself to the cultivation of literary interests and the study of Epicurean philosophy. Saufeius is precisely the sort of individual who is usually invisible to the modern historian, and for that reason he offers a valuable, concr…
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
Epicurus in Rome
The role of Greek thought in the final days of the Roman republic is a topic that has garnered much attention in recent years. This volume of essays, commissioned specially from a distinguished international group of scholars, explores the role and influence of Greek philosophy, specifically Epicureanism, in the late republic. It focuses primarily (although not exclusively) on the works and views of Cicero, premier politician and Roman philosophe…
Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy
Extensively trained as a philosopher, Cicero was also a working politician with a keen awareness of the distance between pure intellectual endeavor and effective strategies of persuasion. This volume explores a series of interrelated problems in his works, from the use of emotion, self-correction, and even fiction in intellectual inquiry, to the motives of political agents and the morality of political arguments, to the means of justifying the us…
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Cicero composed the Tusculan Disputations in the summer of 45 BC at a time of great personal and political turmoil. He was grieving for the death of his daughter Tullia earlier that year, while Caesar's defeat of Pompey's forces at Munda and return to Rome as dictator was causing him great fears and concerns for himself, his friends and the Republic itself. This collection of new essays offers a holistic critical commentary on this important work…
Cicero’s De morte
Tusculans 1 offers a multi-faceted refutation of the proposition ‘death is an evil’, accomplished in part through a detailed doxography of a wide range of philosophers of different schools. This survey is far from a jumble of contradictory views, however: Cicero avoids dogmatic insistence on the arguments of any single school and has instead crafted a minimally sectarian protreptic designed to convince readers of any philosophical persuasion that…
The many faces of friar Domingo Navarrete
This paper reconstructs the European philosophical afterlife of the Dominican missionary Domingo Navarrete (1618–1686) and examines how his writings on China and Confucius were received, transformed, and redeployed in late seventeenth-century Europe. Focusing on two influential readers, Antoine Arnauld and John Locke, it traces how Navarrete's critique of Jesuit accommodationist strategies in China was appropriated for distinct theological and ph…
Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cicero (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)