Themes in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
Author : Jill Graper Hernandez
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780757562709
Ancient Epistemology
Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521871395
Book Description
This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.
Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy
Author : Alex Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107086590
Book Description
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Dewey and the Ancients
Author : Christopher C. Kirby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472510550
Book Description
Dewey's students at Columbia saw him as "an Aristotelian more Aristotelian than Aristotle himself." However, until now, there has been little consideration of the influence Greek thought had on the intellectual development of this key American philosopher. By examining, in detail, Dewey's treatment and appropriation of Greek thought, the authors in this volume reveal an otherwise largely overlooked facet of his intellectual development and finalized ideas. Rather than offering just one unified account of Dewey's connection to Greek thought, this volume offers multiple perspectives on Dewey's view of the aims and purpose of philosophy. Ultimately, each author reveals ways in which Dewey's thought was in line with ancient themes. When combined, they offer a tapestry of comparative approaches with special attention paid to key contributions in political, social, and pedagogical philosophy.
Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Author : David Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0521761301
Book Description
An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.
Philosophy in the Ancient World
Author : James A. Arieti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742533288
Book Description
Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction--an intellectual history of the ancient world from the eighth century B.C.E. to the fifth century C.E., from Homer to Boethius--describes and evaluates ancient thought in its cultural setting, showing how it affected and was affected by that setting. The greatest philosophers (Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine) and cultural figures (Homer, Euripides, Thucydides, Archimedes) and a number of lesser ones (Hesiod, Posidonius, Basil) receive careful description and evaluation. Philosophy in the Ancient World is ideally suited as a supplement for undergraduate courses in Ancient Philosophy and the History of Philosophy in the West.
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521750725
Book Description
The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191578304
Book Description
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book introduces readers to some ancient debates to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 2
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107376432
Book Description
M. F. Burnyeat taught for 14 years in the Philosophy Department of University College London, then for 18 years in the Classics Faculty at Cambridge, 12 of them as the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, before migrating to Oxford in 1996 to become a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College. The studies, articles and reviews collected in these two volumes of Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy were all written, and all but two published, before that decisive change. Whether designed for a scholarly audience or for a wider public, they range from the Presocratics to Augustine, from Descartes and Bishop Berkeley to Wittgenstein and G. E. Moore. Their subject-matter falls under four main headings: 'Logic and Dialectic' and 'Scepticism Ancient and Modern', which make up the first volume, with 'Knowledge' and 'Philosophy and the Good Life' contained in this, the second volume. The title 'Explorations' well expresses Burnyeat's ability to discover new aspects of familiar texts, new ways of solving old problems. In his hands the history of philosophy becomes itself a philosophical activity.
Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671
Author : Robert Pasnau
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191501794
Book Description
Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth. At no period in the history of philosophy, other than perhaps our own, have metaphysical problems received the sort of sustained attention they received during the later Middle Ages, and never has a whole philosophical tradition come crashing down as quickly and completely as did scholastic philosophy in the seventeenth century. The thirty chapters work through various fundamental metaphysical issues, sometimes focusing more on scholastic thought, sometimes on the seventeenth century. Pasnau begins with the first challenges to the classical scholasticism of Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, runs through prominent figures like John Duns Scotus and William Ockham, and ends in the seventeenth century, with the end of the first stage of developments in post-scholastic philosophy: on the continent, with Descartes and Gassendi, and in England, with Boyle and Locke.
