On Ancient Philosophy

Name: On Ancient Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780534595722

ISBN-10: 0534595723

ISBN-13: 9780534595722

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Peterman

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ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY offers a fresh look at the ancient Greek philosophers, helping the reader find the connections between their philosophies and our own. Intended for both classroom use and a general audience, this book provides an overview of ancient Greek history and culture, extensive chapters on the Pre-Socratics, Plato and Aristotle, and individual chapters on the Sophists, Socrates, and Philosophy after Aristotle. Greek philosophy is dynamic, provocative, and erotic-full of the restlessness of inquiry from the epigrams of Heraclitus and the paradoxes of Zeno to the dialogues of Plato and Aristotle's search for an adequate starting point. This book captures the movement of each…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 3/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Historical and Cultural Background


The Polis, Colonies and Empires


War


Religion



The Presocratics


Ionia


Homer


Hesiod


Thales


Anaximander


Anaximenes


Xenophanes


Heraclitus


Italy


Pythagoras


Parmenides


Zeno and Melissus


Reinterpreting Parmenides: the Return of the Many


Empedocles


Anaxagoras


Leucippus and Democritus



The Sophists



Socrates



Plato


Plato?s Biography


Approaching Philosophy through Dialogues


Literary Background


Settings and Structures


Conversations and Dialectic


Stories and Myths


Socratic Irony


Plato?s Philosophy


The Practice of Dying and Being Dead


The Life of Ideas


Truth, Sophistry and Rhetoric



Aristotle


Biography and Writings


Logic


Physics and Change


Psyche: the Life Force of the Soul


Animals


Metaphysics


Ethics and Politics


Rhetoric


Poetics


Nicomachean Ethics: A Closer Reading


An Aristotelian Survival Kit


Epilogue: After Aristotle


Stoics


Skeptics


Epicureans


Neoplatonists


Glossary


Index