The Beginnings Of Philosophy In Greece

Author : Maria Michela Sassi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691204567

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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece by Maria Michela Sassi Pdf

How can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "Presocratics" to provide a richer understanding of the roots of what used to be called "the Greek miracle." The beginnings of the long process leading to philosophy were characterized by intellectual diversity and geographic polycentrism. In the sixth and fifth centuries BC, between the Asian shores of Ionia and the Greek city-states of southern Italy, thinkers started to reflect on the cosmic order, elaborate doctrines on the soul, write in solemn Homeric meter, or, later, abandon poetry for an assertive prose. And yet the Presocratics whether the Milesian natural thinkers, the rhapsode Xenophanes, the mathematician and "shaman" Pythagoras, the naturalist and seer Empedocles, the oracular Heraclitus, or the inspired Parmenides all shared an approach to critical thinking that, by questioning traditional viewpoints, revolutionized knowledge. A unique study that explores the full range of early Greek thinkers in the context of their worlds, the book also features a new introduction to the English edition in which the author discusses the latest scholarship on the subject.--

Author : W. T. Stace
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781775418566

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A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. Stace Pdf

Virtually every aspect of the modern Western worldview has its roots in the remarkably diverse body of philosophy that emerged from a small patch of land in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago. This volume offers an overview of the highlights of ancient Greek philosophy, as well as an historical account of the lives of many of the scholars and thinkers who helped shaped it.

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499552

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The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India by Richard Seaford Pdf

Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.

Author : Eduard Zeller,Sarah Frances Alleyne,Evelyn Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : HARVARD:HWADWJ

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Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy by Eduard Zeller,Sarah Frances Alleyne,Evelyn Abbott Pdf

Author : Eduard Zeller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015006582608

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A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller Pdf

Author : P. Nicolacopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400920156

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Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science by P. Nicolacopoulos Pdf

Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).

Author : Eduard Zeller
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Filosofihistorie
ISBN : NWU:35556029374055

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Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy by Eduard Zeller Pdf

Provides an overview of all the main tenets of ancient Greek philosophy. This book investigates the four main periods of thought, from before Socrates until the end of the Roman Empire, and includes all the major thinkers' views. It was first published in 1883

Author : W.K.C. Guthrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135196226

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The Greek Philosophers by W.K.C. Guthrie Pdf

W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and to describe the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking and outlook on the world. Thus The Greek Philosophers provides excellent background material for the general reader - as well as providing a firm basis for specialist studies.

Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400874118

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Philosophy before the Greeks by Marc Van De Mieroop Pdf

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what came before the Greeks was "before philosophy." In Philosophy before the Greeks, Marc Van De Mieroop, an acclaimed historian of the ancient Near East, presents a groundbreaking argument that, for three millennia before the Greeks, one Near Eastern people had a rich and sophisticated tradition of philosophy fully worthy of the name. In the first century BC, the Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily praised the Babylonians for their devotion to philosophy. Showing the justice of Diodorus's comment, this is the first book to argue that there were Babylonian philosophers and that they studied knowledge systematically using a coherent system of logic rooted in the practices of cuneiform script. Van De Mieroop uncovers Babylonian approaches to knowledge in three areas: the study of language, which in its analysis of the written word formed the basis of all logic; the art of divination, which interpreted communications between gods and humans; and the rules of law, which confirmed that royal justice was founded on truth. The result is an innovative intellectual history of the ancient Near Eastern world during the many centuries in which Babylonian philosophers inspired scholars throughout the region—until the first millennium BC, when the breakdown of this cosmopolitan system enabled others, including the Greeks, to develop alternative methods of philosophical reasoning.

Author : Luciano De Crescenzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Greece
ISBN : IND:30000009121157

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The History of Greek Philosophy: The pre-Socratics by Luciano De Crescenzo Pdf

Author : Patricia F. O'Grady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351918404

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Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece by Patricia F. O'Grady Pdf

Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition. Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece brings the thoughts and lives of the pioneers of Western philosophy down from their sometimes remote heights and introduces them to a modern audience. Comprising seventy essays, written by internationally distinguished scholars in a lively and accessible style, this book presents the values, ideas, wisdom and arguments of the most significant thinkers from the world of ancient Greece. Commencing with Thales of Miletus and continuing to the end of the Ancient Period of philosophy by way of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Epictetus this book explores the major contributions of each philosopher as well as looking at archaeological and historical sites where they lived, worked and thought. This book is an outstanding introduction to the world of the philosophers of Ancient Greece.

Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:939477902

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The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans by William Keith Chambers Guthrie Pdf

Author : Alfred William Benn
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547755234

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The History of Greek Philosophy (Vol. 1&2) by Alfred William Benn Pdf

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC and continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Ancient Greece was part of the Roman Empire. Philosophy was used to make sense out of the world in a non-religious way. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric and aesthetics. This two-volume edition gives a complete insight into Greek Philosophy from its beginnings until the occurrence of Christian philosophy and final extinction of pagan philosophy. Contents: Early Greek Thought The Greek Humanists: Nature and Law The Place of Socrates in Greek Philosophy Plato; His Teachers and His Times Plato as a Reformer Characteristics of Aristotle The Systematic Philosophy of Aristotle The Stoics Epicurus and Lucretius The Sceptics and Eclectics: Greek Philosophy in Rome The Religious Revival The Spiritualism of Plotinus Greek Philosophy and Modern Thought

Author : Jason L. Saunders
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780684836430

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Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle by Jason L. Saunders Pdf

A concise selection from the standard philosophical works written after the death of Aristotle to the close of the third century, which includes the writings of seminal figures from early Christian thought. Eminent scholar Jason Saunders shows how philosophers from the Hellenistic Age greatly influenced early Christian teachings.

Author : W. K. C. Guthrie,William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521387604

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A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 6, Aristotle: An Encounter by W. K. C. Guthrie,William Keith Chambers Guthrie Pdf

All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.