A companion to ancient philosophy / edited and with an introduction by Sean D. Kirkland and Eric Sanday.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirkland, Sean D., editor.

Sanday, Eric, editor.

Series:

Rereading ancient philosophy.

Rereading ancient philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Summary:

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts.

Contents:

Early Greek thinking : the emergence of philosophy

Phusis in pre-Socratic thought : seeking with Xenophanes / Robert Metcalf

Going with the flow : soul and truth in Heraclitus / Drew A. Hyland

Justice, change, and knowledge : Aristotle, Parmenides, and Melissus on genesis and natural science / Rose Cherubin

"As he says in his poetical way" : Anaximander and Empedocles on the motive forces of kosmos / Phil Hopkins

The human as (w)hole : Aristophanes's contest with Socrates in Clouds / Damian Stocking

Classical Greek philosophy : Plato and Aristotle

Eros and Eris : love and strife in ancient Greek thought and culture / John Russon

Plato and Aristotle : more than a question of 'separate forms' / Francisco J. Gonzalez

Measure, excess, and the all : to Agathon in Plato / Claudia Baracchi

In the wake of Socrates : impossible memory / Walter Brogan

The origins of political life in Plato's Republic and Laws / George Harvey

Being in late Plato / Eric Sanday

Aristotle on Physis : analyzing the inner ambiguities and transgression of nature / Marjolein Oele

Human logos in Aristotle / Omer Aygun

Developing emotions : Aristotle's Rhetoric II.2-11 / Gregory Recco

Hontina tropon gignetai philos : genesis versus alteration in the forming of friendships / John McCumber

The political context for virtue : Aristotle's politics / Eve Rabinoff

Mimesis : Plato and Aristotle on the political power of tragedy / Patricia Fagan

The Hellenistic schools

Ataraxia : tranquility at the end / Pascal Massie

A well-ordered world : the developing idea of kosmos in later Greek philosophy / Gina Zavota

Searching for the 'why' : Plotinus on being and the one beyond being / Michael Wiitala.

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ISBN:

0-8101-3788-7

OCLC:

1059392271