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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
W K C Guthrie |
| ISBN: | 0521051592 9780521051590 0521051606 9780521051606 0521075661 9780521075664 0521200024 9780521200028 0521200032 9780521200035 0521235731 9780521235730 |
| OCLC Number: | 4679552 |
| Description: | 6 volumes ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | v. 1. The earlier Presocratics and Pythagoreans -- v. 2. The Presocratic tradition from Parmenides to Democritus -- v. 3. The fifth-century enlightenment -- v. 4. Plato, the man and his dialogues -- v. 5. The later Plato and the academy -- v. 6. Aristotle, an encounter. v. 1. The earlier Presocratics and Pythagoreans. Introduction and summary -- The beginnings of philosophy in Greece -- The Milesians -- Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans -- Alcmaeon -- Xenophanes -- Heraclitus. v. 2. The Presocratic tradition from Parmenides to Democritus. The Eleatics -- Ionians and Elatics: The rise and fall of monism -- Empedocles -- Anaxagoras -- Archelaus -- Philosophy in the second half of the fifth century -- Diogenes of Apollonia -- The atomists of the fifth century. v. 3. The fifth-century enlightenment. Introduction -- Topics of the day -- What is a sophist? -- The "nomos" -- "physis" antithesis in morals and politics -- The social compact -- Equality -- The relativity of values and its effects on ethical theory -- Rhetoric and philosophy -- Rationalist theories of religion: agnosticism and atheism -- Can virtue be taught? -- The men -- Socrates: problem and sources -- Life and character -- Philosophical significance. v. 4. Plato. Introduction -- Life of Plato and philosophical influences -- The dialogues -- Early Socratic dialogues -- Protagorus, Meno, Euthydemus, Gorgias, Menexenus -- Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus -- The Republic. v. 5. The later Plato and the Academy. Cratylus -- Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Politicus -- Philebus -- Timaeus and Critias -- Laws -- Doubtful and spurious dialogues -- Postscript to Plato -- Plato's associates. v. 6. Aristotle: an encounter. Discovering Aristotle -- Aristotle's life and philosophical pilgrimage -- The written remains -- Eudemus, Proptrepticus, de philosophia -- The mind of Aristotle -- Teleology and its defence: the concept of potentiality -- The divisions of knowledge -- Logic, the tool of philosophy -- The road to knowledge -- Substance -- Causes -- Theory of motion and theology -- Psychology -- The philosophy of human life. |
| Responsibility: | by W.K.C. Guthrie. |
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'The earlier volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek Philosophy won their due acclaim, and the series is now crowned by this massive volume, the records of what the author, with characteristic dry wit, calls an 'Encounter' ... it carries an immense weight of learning in ancient philosophy and knowledge of modern thought, as well as total command of Aristotelian scholarship all neatly distributed between text and footnotes, so that it can be read with or without the latter, according to taste, grasp and knowledge of Greek ... The end crowns the life not only of a great scholar but of a man whose modesty, humour and irony glint through many a page.' Bulletin of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers '... the record of the meeting of two minds. It is illuminated by a vivid intellectual excitement, and by an affection for Aristotle that may surprise those who find him too forbiddingly rational to be loved ... For undergraduates, nervously approaching this philosopher for the first time, it will be the most encouraging, illuminating and informative account that they are likely to meet.' Andrew Barker, University of Warwick Read more...
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