Ancient philosophy : textual paths and historical explorations / edited by Lorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina.
| Other author | Perilli, Lorenzo, editor. |
| Other author | Taormina, Daniela Patrizia, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | 1 online resource (896 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Chapter 1 East and West / M. Laura Gemelli Marciano -- chapter 2 Ancient philosophy and the doxographical tradition / Jaap Mansfeld -- chapter 3 Philosophical stones: ancient philosophy as reflected in the mirror of inscriptions / Georg Petzl -- chapter 4 Socio-historical outline of the Archaic period / Paolo A. Tuci -- chapter 5 {u2018}You Greeks are always children{u2019}: the infancy of wisdom / Lorenzo Perilli -- chapter 6 The Presocratics / Lorenzo Perilli -- chapter 7 The sophists and Socrates / Eugenio (Rick) Benitez -- chapter 8 Socio-historical outline of the Classical and Hellenistic periods / Paolo A. Tuci -- chapter 9 Plato / Maria Isabel Santa Cruz -- chapter 10 The Academy from Plato to Polemo / Dimitri El Murr -- chapter 11 Aristotle / James G. Lennox -- chapter 12 Hellenistic philosophy -- chapter 13 Socio-historical outline of the Roman period / Federico De Romanis -- chapter 14 Some remarks on ancient science / Lorenzo Perilli -- chapter Focus Box 6: Logos and algorithms -- chapter 15 Philosophy in Rome / Therese Fuhrer -- chapter 16 Socio-historical outline of the later Roman empire / Umberto Roberto -- chapter 17 Platonism, Pythagoreanism, Aristotelianism / Dominic J. O{u2019}Meara -- chapter 18 Greek philosophy and philosophers in the third{u2013}sixth century CE: from Plotinus to the last Alexandrian commentators / Daniela P. Taormina -- chapter 19 Augustine of Hippo and the new Christian culture / Marta Cristiani. |
| Summary | We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece", the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. And in no other domain of human knowledge as in philosophy, going back to the beginning is to reach the height. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for a method of investigation. This book tries to rediscover the propulsive force that for over two millennia spread, and still lives in our system of thought. By systematically quoting the very words of the leading actors, by tracing their sources, it leads the reader along a path where he will be able to observe the establishment of philosophical ideas and language, in an updated and balanced picture of archaic lore, of the thought of the classical and hellenistic ages, and of the philosophy of late antiquity. The book looks closely at the progress of scientific thought and at its increasing autonomy, while following the evolution of the fruitful yet problematic relationship between the Greek world and the Near Eastern countries. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Ancient philosophy. Textual paths and historical explorations. Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd 2017 9781138680999 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781315179339 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1315179334 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781351716048 |
| ISBN | 1351716042 |
| ISBN | 9781351716024 |
| ISBN | 1351716026 |
| ISBN | 9781351716031 |
| ISBN | 1351716034 |
| Stock number | 5185427 Proquest Ebook Central |
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