Lectures on Greek Philosophy 1928.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2008.

Summary:

The Lectures on Greek Philosophy of 1928 are among the earliest lectures we have of John Anderson's, delivered in the year following his arrival in Sydney in 1927. In these teachings he closely and critically followed John Burnet's classic work Early Greek Philosophy.

Contents:

Foreword to the John Anderson series

Introduction

Note on the text

Part 1: pre-Socratics

1. Introductory lectures Lecture 1: science, philosophy and mythology Lecture 2: mythological thinking continued Lecture 3: foundation of science

2.The Milesians Lecture 3 continued: the Milesians Lecture 4: common quality as unity within diversity Lecture 5: Thales on the nature of things Lecture 6: Anaximander and the unlimited or boundless Lecture 7: Anaximander continued - influence Lecture 8: Anaximenes Lecture 9: Anaximenes continued - notion of substance Lecture 10: main difficulties in Milesian thinking

3. Xenophanes Lecture 10 continued: reactions to Milesians Lecture 11: Xenophanes' rejection of speculation Lecture 12: Xenophanes continued

4. Pythagoras Lecture 13: Pythagoras and the conception of units Lecture 14: units applied to music and harmony Lecture 15: the theory of the mean - division of reality Lecture 16: division of reality continued

5. Heraclitus Lecture 17: the particular importance of Heraclitus Lecture 18: all things in process Lecture 19: things as attunements - exchanges Lecture 20: fire as process not substance Lecture 21: systems and cycles Lecture 22: each thing a cycle Lecture 23: personal identity Lecture 24: ethical theory Lecture 25: modern misunderstandings of Heraclitus

6. Parmenides Lecture 26: Parmenides - early Pythagoreanism Lecture 27: the question of pure being Lecture 28: Parmenides' criticisms of Heraclitus Lecture 29: Eleatic paradoxes Lecture 30: the way of truth - change impossible Lecture 31: Pythagorean units corrected Lecture 32: criticisms of Parmenides Lecture 33: criticisms continued

7. Empedocles and Anaxagoras Lecture 33 continued: so-called Pluralists Lecture 34: Pluralists' reactions to Parmenides Lecture 35: difficulties in Empedocles and Anaxagoras 8. Melissus and Zeno Lecture 36: Eleatic responses to Pluralists - Melissus Lecture 37: Eleatic responses to Pluralists - Zeno Lecture 38: Zeno continued - the paradoxes Lecture 39: Zeno continued - the simple dilemma

Part 2: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle 1. Introductory lectures Lecture 40: Socrates - Pythagoreans and Eleatics Lecture 41: doctrine of imitation - being and becoming Lecture 42: knowledge and opinion Lecture 43: influence of the physicists Lecture 44: Socrates continued - the dialogues

2. The Euthyphro and Apology Lecture 45: Euthyphro on piety Lecture 46: Euthyphro continued Lecture 47: Euthyphro - stages in the argument Lecture 48: Euthyphro continued Lecture 49: the Apology

3. The Phaedo and the Parmenides Lecture-50: the Phaedo - on soul and body Lecture 51: proofs of immortality - forms as external Lecture 52: the treatment of forms as predicates Lecture 53: Socratic consideration of propositions Lecture 54: the testing of hypotheses Lecture 55: Phaedo continued Lecture 56: Socratic theory of approximations Lecture 57: Phaedo continued Lecture 58: Socrates on nature of forms incomplete Lecture 59: Socrates twin doctrines in conflict Lecture 60: two conceptions of forms continued Lecture 61: the Parmenides - division of reality Lecture 62: universality and particularity

4. The Republic Lecture 63: introduction to the ethical theories Lecture 64: virtue and the arts Lecture 65: the Republic continued Lecture 66: Thrasymachus on justice Lecture 67: the art of ruling Lecture 68: justice and the form of the good Lecture 69: forms and natural kinds Lecture 70: the nature of the state Lecture 71: goodness as fulfilment of function Lecture 72: parts of the state and parts of the soul Lecture 73: consequences of the theory of justice

5. Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics Lecture 74: the good life as that which is aimed at Lecture 75: Aristotle on the practical and happiness Lecture 76: Aristotle's theory of the mean Lecture 77: The goodness of character Lecture 78: Aristotle's emphasis on activities Lecture 79: Socratic philosophy and Butler's Sermons Lecture 80: comparisons with Butler continued Lecture 81: Butler concluded

Appendix: books on Greek philosophy in the Anderson family collection

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Anderson, John Lectures on Greek Philosophy 1928

ISBN:

9781743329146

1743329148

9781743320839

1743320833

OCLC:

1321801823