Screen LibraryA companion to ancient philosophy
Provides an overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. This volume contains papers, which treat topics in ancient philosophy, such as the problem of sources or the practice of ancient philosophical commentary and also explore the development of various disciplines, including math...
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| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 31. |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444305845 |
| Summary: |
Provides an overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. This volume contains papers, which treat topics in ancient philosophy, such as the problem of sources or the practice of ancient philosophical commentary and also explore the development of various disciplines, including mathematics, logic, grammar, physics, and medicine. |
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Title from e-book home page (publisher website, viewed Feb. 18, 2008). Published on the Blackwell Reference Online website. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780631210610 (electronic bk.) 063121061X (electronic bk.) 9781405178259 (electronic bk.) 1405178256 (electronic bk.) 1405188340 (pbk.) 9781405188340 (pbk.) 9781444305845 (electronic bk.) 1444305840 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | B111 |
| CLC: | B12 |
| Contents: | The beginnings of science and philosophy in archaic Greece / Edward Hussey -- Ancient philosophy and the doxographical tradition / Jørgen Mejer -- Parmenides and after : unity and plurality / Patricia Curd -- The concept of the universal in some later pre-platonic cosmologists / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos -- The sophistic movement / Rachel Barney -- Socrates / Donald R. Morrison -- Minor Socratics / Fernanda Decleva Caizzi -- The platonic dialogue / Christopher Gill -- Plato's ethics : early and middle dialogues / Terry Penner -- Plato's political philosophy : the Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws / Melissa Lane -- Plato's metaphysics and dialectic / Noburu Notomi -- Plato's natural philosophy and metaphysics / Luc Brisson -- The Aristotelian way / Pierre Pellegrin -- Aristotle's logic and theory of science / Wolfgang Detel -- Aristotle's physics and cosmology / István Bodnar and Pierre Pellegrin -- Aristotle's biology and Aristotle's philosophy / James G. Lennox -- Aristotle's psychology / Victor Caston -- First philosophy in Aristotle / Mary Louise Gill -- Aristotle's ethics / Michael Pakaluk -- Aristotle's political philosophy / David Keyt -- Philosophic schools in Hellenistic and Roman times / Thomas Bénatouïl -- The problem of sources / Robert W. Sharples -- The new academy and its rivals / Carlos Lévy -- Pyrrhonism / Jacques Brunschwig -- Epicureanism / Pierre-Marie Morel -- Stoic logic / Katerina Ierodiakonou -- Stoic ethics / Richard Bett -- Hellenistic cosmopolitanism / Eric Brown -- Middle Platonism / Marco Zambon -- Plotinus / Luc Brisson and Jean-François Pradeau -- What was commentary in late antiquity? The example of the Neoplatonic commentators / Philippe Hoffmann -- Greek philosophy and religion / Gábor Betegh -- Philosophy of language / Deborah K.W. Modrak -- Ancient medicine and its contribution to the philosophical tradition / Pierre Pellegrin -- Greek mathematics to the time of Euclid / Ian Mueller. |