Retrieving the Ancients An Introduction to Greek Philosophy

Name: Retrieving the Ancients An Introduction to Greek Philosophy
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ISBN: 9781405108621

ISBN-10: 1405108622

ISBN-13: 9781405108621

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Roochnik

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The story of the first philosophers in the West. Beginning with Thales, who correctly predicted an eclipse in 585 BC, and culminating in a discussion of the works of Aristotle, who died in 322 BC, the book provides an introduction to one of the most fertile periods in the history of human thought.

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.990



Introduction


Two Reasons to Study Ancient Greek Philosophy


The Organization and Strategy of This Book



The Presocratics


Preliminaries


Before the Beginning: Hesiod


The Ionian Philosophers of the Sixth Century



The Beginning: Thales of Miletus



The First Debate: Anaximander v. Anaximenes



Sixth-Century Rationalism: Xenophanes and Pythagoras



The Crisis of Sixth-Century Philosophy


Heraclitus and Parmenides: Extreme Solutions



Heraclitus: Lover of Flux



Parmenides: Champion of Being


Fifth-Century Elementalism



Democritus: Atomic Theory



Empedocles: Evolution



Anaxagoras



The Sophists and Socrates


A New Beginning: The Sophists


Protagoras


Gorgias


Socrates



Plato


Preliminaries


Plato's Critique of the Presocratics


Plato's Critique of the Sophists



The "Self-Reference" Argument



The Reductio ad Absurdum



"What is it?"



"The Old Quarrel:" Philosophy v


Sophistry


Recollection



The Phaedo



The Meno


The Divided Line and the Form of the Good



The Divided Line



The Form of the Good


Eros


The Political Implications of the Forms



Aristotle


Preliminaries


Aristotle's Conception of Nature



"By Nature"



Form and Matter



The Four Causes


Aristotle's Psychology


Teleological Ethics



Moral Virtue



Intellectual Virtue


Natural Politics



The Political Animal



Best Life; Best City


Conclusion


References


Index