A History of Ancient Philosophy : From the Beginning to Augustine.

By: Johansen, Karsten FriisContributor(s): Rosenmeir, HenrikMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (727 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203979808Subject(s): Philosophy, Ancient -- History | PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: A History of Ancient Philosophy : From the Beginning to AugustineDDC classification: 180 LOC classification: B115.D36 -- F7513 1998ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Preliminaries -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Myth, poetry and philosophy -- 2 Ionian natural philosophy -- 3 Heraclitus -- 4 The Pythagoreans -- 5 The Eleatics -- 6 Post-Parmenidean natural philosophy -- 7 Medical science -- 8 Pericles' Athens -- 9 Tragedy and view of history -- 10 The Sophists -- 11 Socrates -- 12 Life, works and position -- 13 What is virtue? Can virtue be taught? -- 14 Idea and man -- 15 The good constitution of state and man -- 16 The late dialogues: knowledge and being -- 17 The late dialogues: nature, man and society -- 18 Plato and the early Academy -- 19 Life, works and position -- 20 Logic and theory of science -- 21 Natural philosophy and psychology -- 22 Metaphysics and theology -- 23 Ethics and politics -- 24 Rhetoric and poetics -- 25 The early Peripatetics -- 26 Science and philosophy -- 27 Epicurus -- 28 Early Stoicism -- 29 Scepticism -- 30 Greece and Rome -- 31 Imperial Rome -- 32 Plotinus -- 33 Late Neoplatonism -- 34 Early Christian thought -- 35 Augustine -- Abbreviations: general -- Abbreviations: individual authors and texts -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements: *Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides *The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates *Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus *Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics *Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero *Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine. This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains: *full references to primary sources *detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings *an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought *discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas *analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics *explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.
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Preliminaries -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Myth, poetry and philosophy -- 2 Ionian natural philosophy -- 3 Heraclitus -- 4 The Pythagoreans -- 5 The Eleatics -- 6 Post-Parmenidean natural philosophy -- 7 Medical science -- 8 Pericles' Athens -- 9 Tragedy and view of history -- 10 The Sophists -- 11 Socrates -- 12 Life, works and position -- 13 What is virtue? Can virtue be taught? -- 14 Idea and man -- 15 The good constitution of state and man -- 16 The late dialogues: knowledge and being -- 17 The late dialogues: nature, man and society -- 18 Plato and the early Academy -- 19 Life, works and position -- 20 Logic and theory of science -- 21 Natural philosophy and psychology -- 22 Metaphysics and theology -- 23 Ethics and politics -- 24 Rhetoric and poetics -- 25 The early Peripatetics -- 26 Science and philosophy -- 27 Epicurus -- 28 Early Stoicism -- 29 Scepticism -- 30 Greece and Rome -- 31 Imperial Rome -- 32 Plotinus -- 33 Late Neoplatonism -- 34 Early Christian thought -- 35 Augustine -- Abbreviations: general -- Abbreviations: individual authors and texts -- Bibliography -- Index.

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements: *Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides *The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates *Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus *Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics *Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero *Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine. This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains: *full references to primary sources *detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings *an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought *discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas *analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics *explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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