Doing Greek Philosophy

Robert Wardy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415282345
• eBook ISBN: 9781134459162
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

This lively and original guidebook offers an invitation to the study of Greek philosophy and signposts to lead the student deeper. The reader is drawn in to the questions the philosophers posed.

Doing Greek Philosophy conveys a vital sense of the dynamism and continuity in the Greek philosophical tradition, and shows how interaction between the philosophers creates and sustains that tradition. It concentrates on a set of interrelated concepts and problems – contradiction, relativism, refutation and consistency – which appear in the tradition, and show how philosophers dealt with them. The author considers not just what the philosophers were doing, but also what they thought they were doing. The goal is not simply to inform readers about Greek philosophy, but also to equip them with an intellectual toolkit, and to encourage them to use it.

The reader will come away from this book with a set of good questions and the means to probe them further. Accessibly written, the book will appeal to philosophers at every level, and its concision will make it the ideal starting point for the beginner in philosophy.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Doing Greek Philosophy
• Classical Foundations
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: doing and living philosophy
• 1 Opposition, relativism, contradiction
• 2 Refuting the irrefutable?
• 3 A life without belief?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index