Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction

Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - 386 páginas

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.

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A World Ready for Philosophy

I Why Ancient Philosophy

II Qualities of the Greek Mind Conducive to Philosophy

Homer and Hesiod

B HESIOD

IV Why Homer and Hesiod Are Not Philosophy

V Other Conditions Affecting the Birth of Philosophy

B ARCHITECTURE AND ART

IV Aristotles Four Causes

V Aristotles Response to Parmenides

VI The Prime Mover as Aristotles Deity

VII Aristotles Philosophy of Science

B WHERE KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM

C MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

D UNQUALIFIED KNOWLEDGE

VIII Aristotles Ethics

VI How and Where Philosophy Began

VII The Branches of Philosophy

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Philosophy Begins

I By What Name Shall We Call the Milesian Thinkers?

II How Do We Know about the Early Thinkers?

Thales Anaximander Anaximenes

B ANAXIMANDER 610546

C ANAXIMENES 585528

IV General Remarks on the Milesians

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Philosophy Moves to Italy

I Italy

III Xenophanes

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The Turn of the Fifth Century Heraclitus and Parmenides

I The Turn of the Century

II Heraclitus

A PARMENIDES

B ZENO AND MELISSUS

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The Persian Wars and Their Aftermath Sophistry and Rhetoric

I The Persian Wars

II Rhetoric and Sophistry

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Medicine Tragedy History

I Medicine

II Tragedy Marcus Aurelius writing of the origin and use of tragedy says

III History

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Empedocles Anaxagoras and Democritus

I Empedocles

II Anaxagoras

III Democritus

IV Summing Up the Early Philosophers

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The Peloponnesian War Socrates Thucydides Euripides

I Socrates

II Thucydides

III Euripides

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Rhetoric and the Philosophers

I Rhetoric

II Extemporaneous and Prepared Speeches

III Isocrates 436338

IV Rhetoric and Philosophy

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Plato

I Plato 428348 BCE

II Reading Platonic Dialogues

III A Compendium of Views Associated with Plato

A METAPHYSICS

B ETHICS

C POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

D EROS

E TELEOLOGY

F OTHER VIEWS

IV Platos Academy

V After Plato

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Aristotle

I Introduction

II Logic

III Aristotles Ten Categories

B MATTER AND FORM

C ACTUALITY AND POTENTIALITY

K ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON ACTUALITY AND POTENTIALITY

B THE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN AND THE VIRTUES

C FRIENDSHIP

D PLEASURE

IX Aristotles Psychology

X Aristotles Legacy

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The World of the Third Century

I Alexander and His Aftermath

H Intellectual Developments

A MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY

B BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

C CITY PLANNING

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Epicureanism

I Introduction

B PYRRHO OF ELIS C 360275

III Epicureanism

B EPICURUSS SYSTEM

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Stoicism

I Introduction

II Cynics

III The Early Stoa

B ZENOS SUCCESSORS

C THE MIDDLE STOA

IV Tenets of Stoicism

B LOGIC

C STOIC PHYSICS AND ITS RELATION TO ETHICS

D ETHICS

E ASSORTED STOIC VIEWS

V Roman Stoicism

B EPICTETUS 55135

C MARCUS AURELIUS 121180

VI Concluding Remarks on Stoicism

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Rome and Cicero

I Rome

II Cicero the Man

Ill Cicero the Thinker

IV Ciceros Legacy

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Greek Philosophy Finds the Bible and the Bible Finds Greek Philosophy

1 The World at the Turn of the Millennium

II Philo of Alexandria

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The War for the Ancient Soul

I The War of Politics and Philosophy

II Cultural Decline and Its Explanations

III The City on a Hill

IV Christianity and Philosophy

Minucius Felix and Basil of Caesarea

B BASIL OF CAESAREA 330379

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Philosophy at the End of Antiquity

I Neoplatonism

II Plotinus 205270

III Christian Philosophy

IV Augustine 354430

A AUGUSTINES CONVERSION TO PHILOSOPHY

B AUGUSTINES MANICHAEAN PERIOD

C AUGUSTINES NEOPLATONIST PERIOD

D AUGUSTINES CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY

E CONCLUSIONS ABOUT AUGUSTINE

VI Heresy and the End of Ancient Philosophy

VII Concluding Remarks

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GLOSSARY

INDEX

About the Author

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Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction
James A. Arieti
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James A. Arieti is Graves H. Thompson Professor of Classics and chair of the department at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

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Título	Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Autor	James A. Arieti
Edición	ilustrada
Editor	Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
ISBN	0742533298, 9780742533295
Largo	386 páginas

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