A history of ancient philosophy

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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*Hellenisti

Title A history of ancient philosophy : from the beginnings to Augustine / Karsten Friis Johansen
translated by Henrik Rosenmeier.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1998
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-662) and index.
English
Content 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 science21 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
Extent 1 online resource (727 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010708406405171
MARC RECORDS

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