Paideia, The Ideals of Greek Culture, by Werner Jaeger. Vol. I: Archaic Greece; the Mind of Athens (1939 and 1945), 510 pp. Vol. II: In Search of the Divine Centre (1943), 442 pp. Vol. III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato (1944), 374 pp. Translated by Gilbert Highet. New York, Oxford University Press. Each volume, $3.75. The set, 3 volumes, $10.00

1947 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
Whitney J. Oates
2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-770
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh

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2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-616
Author(s):  
Ronald Gray

In this highly ambitious book, Glynn attempts to provide a description of both how the brain works and how it has developed. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (he is a physiologist by training), he relies on insights from a wide number of disciplines, including psychology, neurology, anthropology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, physiology, and even philosophy. He is interested in providing answers to some perennial and interconnected questions that relate to the mind: “What kind of thing is mind? What is the relation between our minds and our bodies and, more specifically, what is the relation between what goes on in our minds, and what goes on in our brains? How did brains and minds originate? Can our brains be regarded as nothing more than exceedingly complicated machines? Can minds exist without brains” (p. 4). Although his arguments are rather technical, the book is intended for a nonscientist audience.


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