A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

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Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin
John Wiley & Sons, 9 feb 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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1 The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece
3
2 Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition
20
Unity and Plurality 1
34
4 The Concept of the Universal in Some Later PrePlatonic Cosmologists
56
5 The Sophistic Movement
77
Part II Socrates the Socratics and Plato
99
6 Socrates
101
7 Minor Socratics
119
Part IV Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age
413
21 Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic and Roman Times
415
22 The Problem of Sources
430
23 The New Academy and its Rivals
448
24 Pyrrhonism
465
25 Epicureanism
486
26 Stoic Logic
505
27 Stoic Ethics
530

8 The Platonic Dialogue
136
Early and Middle Dialogues
151
The Republic the Statesman and the Laws
170
11 Platos Metaphysics and Dialectic
192
12 Plato s Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics
212
Part III Aristotle
233
13 The Aristotelian Way
235
14 Aristotles Logic and Theory of Science
245
15 Aristotles Physics and Cosmology
270
16 Aristotles Biology and Aristotles Philosophy
292
17 Aristotle s Psychology
316
18 First Philosophy in Aristotle
347
19 Aristotles Ethics
374
20 Aristotles Political Philosophy
393
28 Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism
549
Part V Middle and Late Platonism
559
29 Middle Platonism
561
30 Plotinus
577
31 What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators
597
Part VI Culture Philosophy and the Sciences
623
32 Greek Philosophy and Religion
625
33 Philosophy of Language
640
34 Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition
664
35 Greek Mathematics ArithmeticGeometry Proportion Theoryto the Time of Euclid
686
Index Locorum
719
Index
756
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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).

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