Author : Patrick Lee Miller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1847061648
A lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to weave together philosophical thought on God, reason and happiness.
Author : Jaap Mansfeld
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004382062
The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415034869
Author : James Luchte
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 144115616X
Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the 'Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology is dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an 'indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the 'origins' of 'Western', 'Occidental' philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, James Luchte excavates the context of emergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely 'children'. Luchte discloses 'philosophy in the tragic age' as a creative response to a 'contestation' of mytho-poetic narratives and 'ways of being'. The tragic character of early Greek thought is unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille, in the 'absence of myth' and the exile of poetry.
Author : Gregory Vlastos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 9780691019383
Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521446679
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Author : Martin L. West
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Lee Miller
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781472597915
Becoming god was an ideal of many ancient Greek philosophers, as was the life of reason, which they equated with divinity. This book argues that their rival accounts of this equation depended on their divergent attitudes toward time. Affirming it, Heraclitus developed a paradoxical style of reasoningGÇö chiasmus GÇöthat was the activity of his becoming god. Denying it as contradictory, Parmenides sought to purify thinking of all contradiction, offering eternity to those who would follow him. Plato did, fusing this pure style of reasoningGÇöconsistencyGÇöwith a Pythagorean program of purificati.
Author : D. M. Spitzer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1000845206
Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars. The book’s 16 chapters address an array of topics and themes, extending from the formation of philosophy from its first stirrings in archaic Greek as well as Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Indian sources, through central concepts in ancient Greek philosophy and literatures of the classical period and into the Hellenistic age. Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy offers both in-depth, rigorous, attentive investigations of canonical texts in Western philosophy, such as Plato’s Phaedo, Gorgias, Republic, Phaedrus, Protagoras and the Metaphysics, De Caelo, Nichomachean Ethics, Generation and Corruption of Aristotle’s corpus, as well as inquiries that reach back into the rich archives of the Mediterranean Basin and forward into the traditions of classical philosophy beyond the ancient world. Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy is of interest to students and scholars working on different aspects of ancient Greek philosophy, as well as ancient philosophy, more broadly.
Author : Gregory Vlastos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 9780691019376
