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The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy 1st Edition by David Sedley ISBN 0521775035 9780521775038

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 1.86 MB
Pages: 412
Author: David Sedley
ISBN: 9780521772853, 0521772850
Language: English
Year: 2005

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ISBN 10: 0521775035 
ISBN 13: 9780521775038
Author: David Sedley

This wide-ranging introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world surveys the period's developments and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. Tables, illustrations, and extensive advice on further reading contribute to an ideal book for survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for those interested in the philosophical thought of a rich and formative period.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Origins and Early Development

  • Chapter 1: The Presocratics: Cosmology, Metaphysics, and the Search for Archē
    • Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes: The Milesian School
    • Heraclitus and Parmenides: Being and Becoming
    • Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the Atomists
  • Chapter 2: The Sophists: Rhetoric, Morality, and Humanism
    • Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus
    • The Rise of Relativism and Conventionalism
    • Education and the Polis in the Fifth Century BCE

Part II: The Socratic Revolution and Plato's Legacy

  • Chapter 3: Socrates: The Examined Life and Moral Inquiry
    • The Socratic Method and Elenchus
    • Virtue, Knowledge, and Happiness
    • The Historical Socrates and His Influence
  • Chapter 4: Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Forms and Knowledge
    • Theory of Forms and the Divided Line
    • Recollection and the Immortality of the Soul
    • The Platonic Dialogues and Their Literary Form
  • Chapter 5: Plato's Ethics and Political Philosophy: Justice in the Soul and the City
    • The Virtues and the Just Soul
    • The Ideal State in the Republic
    • Later Political Thought: Statesman and Laws

Part III: Aristotle and the Systematization of Knowledge

  • Chapter 6: Aristotle's Logic and Epistemology
    • The Organon: Categories, On Interpretation, Analytics
    • Deduction, Induction, and Scientific Knowledge
    • The Nature of Definition and Demonstration
  • Chapter 7: Aristotle's Metaphysics: Substance, Potency, and Actuality
    • Critique of Plato's Forms
    • Prime Mover and Causality
    • The Categories of Being
  • Chapter 8: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy: Physics, Biology, and Psychology
    • Motion, Change, and the Four Causes
    • The Soul (Psychē) and its Faculties
    • Teleology in Nature
  • Chapter 9: Aristotle's Ethics and Politics: Eudaimonia and the Polis
    • Virtue Ethics and the Doctrine of the Mean
    • Friendship and Justice
    • The Nature of the State and Constitutions

Part IV: Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy: Schools and Syncretism

  • Chapter 10: Epicureanism: Atomism, Pleasure, and Tranquility
    • Physics: Atoms and the Swerve
    • Ethics: Hedonism and Ataraxia
    • Friendship and the Garden
  • Chapter 11: Stoicism: Virtue, Reason, and Cosmopolis
    • Physics: Pneuma and Providence
    • Ethics: Living According to Nature and Apatheia
    • Logic and Epistemology: Impressions and Assent
  • Chapter 12: Skepticism: Doubt and the Suspension of Judgment
    • Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Academic Skepticism
    • Arguments Against Dogmatism
    • Achieving Ataraxia Through Epochē
  • Chapter 13: Roman Adaptations and Eclecticism
    • Cicero: Transmitting Greek Thought to Rome
    • Seneca and Epictetus: Roman Stoicism
    • Lucretius: Explaining Epicureanism in Latin Poetry
    • Plotinus and Neoplatonism: The One and Emanation

Part V: Key Themes and Later Developments

  • Chapter 14: Ancient Philosophy of Mind and Soul
    • Conceptions of the Soul (Plato, Aristotle, Stoics)
    • Perception, Cognition, and Emotion
    • Free Will and Determinism
  • Chapter 15: Ancient Aesthetics and Poetics
    • Plato on Art and Imitation
    • Aristotle's Poetics and Catharsis
    • Beauty in Ancient Thought
  • Chapter 16: The Legacy and Transmission of Ancient Philosophy
    • The Survival of Texts and Schools
    • Ancient Philosophy's Influence on Medieval Thought (Christian, Islamic, Jewish)
    • The Renaissance Revival and Its Impact

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