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INTRODUCING GREEK PHILOSOPHY
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| By: |
M. R. Wright |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£38.99 |
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£35.09 |
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£3.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844651835 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844651832 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2009 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Presents an introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. This book focuses on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Athens. It discusses the arrival of Hellenistic schools in Rome, where the main ideas are set out in the Latin poetry of Lucretius and the prose of Cicero. It is suitable for students of classics and philosophy. |
| Synopsis: |
Aimed at students of classics and of philosophy who would like a taste of the subject before being committed to a full course and at those who have already started and need to find their bearings in what may seem at first a complex maze of names and schools, "Introducing Greek Philosophy" is a concise, lively, philosophically aware introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. The book begins with the Milesians in Asia Minor before moving over to the developments in the western Greek world, then focusing on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Athens, finishing with the Hellenistic schools and their arrival in Rome, where the main ideas are set out in the Latin poetry of Lucretius and the prose of Cicero.The book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries.Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from the earliest times, and looks at them individually, their development in argument and counter-argument, from the beginnings of recorded Greek history, through the various upheavals of tyrannies, democracies, oligarchies and kingships, to their introduction into Rome in the first century BC. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Acumen Publishing Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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