A history of ancient philosophy : from the beginnings to Augustine / Karsten Friis Johansen ; translated by Henrik Rosenmeier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friis Johansen, K. (Karsten), 1930-

Standardized Title:

Europœiske filosofis historie. Antikken. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient--History.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (727 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements:*Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides*The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates*Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus*Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics*Hellenisti

Contents:

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 Myth, poetry and philosophy; 2 Ionian natural philosophy; 3 Heraclitus; 4 The Pythagoreans; 5 The Eleatics; 6 Post-Parmenidean natural philosophy; 7 Medical science; 8 Pericles' Athens; 9 Tragedy and view of history; 10 The Sophists; 11 Socrates; 12 Life, works and position; 13 What is virtue? Can virtue be taught?; 14 Idea and man; 15 The good constitution of state and man; 16 The late dialogues: knowledge and being; 17 The late dialogues: nature, man and society; 18 Plato and the early Academy; 19 Life, works and position

20 Logic and theory of science21 Natural philosophy and psychology; 22 Metaphysics and theology; 23 Ethics and politics; 24 Rhetoric and poetics; 25 The early Peripatetics; 26 Science and philosophy; 27 Epicurus; 28 Early Stoicism; 29 Scepticism; 30 Greece and Rome; 31 Imperial Rome; 32 Plotinus; 33 Late Neoplatonism; 34 Early Christian thought; 35 Augustine; Abbreviations: general; Abbreviations: individual authors and texts; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-662) and index.

ISBN:

9780548150313

0548150311

9781134798247

1134798245

9781134798254

1134798253

9781280141911

1280141913

9780203979808

020397980X

OCLC:

475942912