A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

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Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin
John Wiley & Sons, 7 gen 2009 - 832 pagine
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive and current overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from its origins until late antiquity.
  • Comprises an extensive collection of original essays, featuring contributions from both rising stars and senior scholars of ancient philosophy
  • Integrates analytic and continental traditions
  • Explores the development of various disciplines, such as mathematics, logic, grammar, physics, and medicine, in relation to ancient philosophy
  • Includes an illuminating introduction, bibliography, chronology, maps and an index
 

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Sommario

The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece
3
Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition
20
Unity and Plurality
34
The Concept of the Universal in Some Later PrePlatonic Cosmologists
56
The Sophistic Movement
77
Socrates
101
Minor Socratics
119
The Platonic Dialogue
136
Aristotles Political Philosophy
393
Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic and Roman Times
415
The Problem of Sources
430
The New Academy and its Rivals
448
Pyrrhonism
465
Epicureanism
486
Stoic Logic
505
Stoic Ethics
530

Early and Middle Dialogues
151
The Republic the Statesman and the Laws
170
Platos Metaphysics and Dialectic
192
Platos Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics
212
The Aristotelian Way
235
Aristotles Physics and Cosmology
270
Aristotles Biology and Aristotles Philosophy
292
Aristotles Psychology
316
First Philosophy in Aristotle
347
Aristotles Ethics
374
Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism
549
Plotinus
577
What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of
597
Greek Philosophy and Religion
625
Philosophy of Language
640
Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition
664
Greek Mathematics to the Time of Euclid
686
Index Locorum
719
General Index
756
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Informazioni sull'autore (2009)

Mary Louise Gill is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Brown University. She is the author of Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity (1989), Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics (co-edited with Theodore Scaltsas and David Charles, 1994), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton (co-edited with James G. Lennox, 1994), and Plato: Parmenides (with Paul Ryan, 1996).

Pierre Pellegrin is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His authored works include Aristotle's Classification of Animals (1986), and Aristote: Le Philosophe et les Savoirs (2002).

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloA Companion to Ancient Philosophy
Volume 104 di Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
CuratoriMary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin
Edizioneillustrata, ristampa
EditoreJohn Wiley & Sons, 2009
ISBN1405188340, 9781405188340
Lunghezza832 pagine
  
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