Author : Jon Mikalson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0199577838
A study of how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time. These include practices such as sacrifice, prayer, dedications, and divination, and the governing concepts of piety and impiety.
Author : Reginald Bainbridge Appleton
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN :
Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 067472903X
A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.
Author : Richard Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1411680871
Euclid's Elements is the most famous mathematical work of classical antiquity, and has had a profound influence on the development of modern Mathematics and Physics. This volume contains the definitive Ancient Greek text of J.L. Heiberg (1883), together with an English translation. For ease of use, the Greek text and the corresponding English text are on facing pages. Moreover, the figures are drawn with both Greek and English symbols. Finally, a helpful Greek/English lexicon explaining Ancient Greek mathematical jargon is appended. Volume II contains Books 5-9, and covers the fundamentals of proportion, similar figures, and number theory.
Author : David Macauley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438432461
Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with their classical and perennial conceptions. David Macauley embarks upon a wide-ranging discussion of their initial appearance in ancient Greek thought as mythic forces or scientific principles to their recent reemergence within contemporary continental philosophy as a means for understanding landscape and language, poetry and place, the body and the body politic. In so doing, he shows the importance of elemental thinking for comprehending and responding to ecological problems. In tracing changing views of the four elements through the history of ideas, Macauley generates a new vocabulary for and a fresh vision of the environment while engaging the elemental world directly with reflections on their various manifestations.
Author : John Burnet
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781016004923
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederick Copleston
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826468963
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.
Author : George G. M. James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1627930159
For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.
Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443869856
PIERIDES III, Editors: Myrto Garani and David Konstan Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and commonplaces have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular the impact of Pythagorean, Empedoclean, Epicurean and Stoic doctrines, on Latin verse has never been fully in...
Author : James A. Arieti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742533288
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.
