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W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and to describe the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking and outlook on the world. Thus The Greek Philosophers provides excellent background material for the general reader - as well as providing a firm basis for specialist studies.
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INDEX
Academy, 122
Aer, 29f.
Aeschylus. 7
Aether, 137f.
Agnosticism (Protagoras), 68
Air, 29ff., 35
Alcibiades, 78
Alexander, 81, 124, 125, 160, 161
Anaxagoras, 19, 54ff.
Anaximander, 26ff., 33, 44
Anaximenes, 29ff.
Anthropology, limits of, 15f.
Anthropomorphism, 29, 83
Apeiron, 27, 39
Apollo, 2, 3, 69, 82, 124
Aquinas, Thomas, 139
Archelaus, 68
Arete, 8ff., 72ff., 153ff.
Aristotle, chh. vii and viii; also 8, 9, 14, 20, 22f., 61, 64, 119; on Thales, 25, 32; on Democritus, 57, 60; on Socrates, 77, 86; wrote a poem, 124; criticism of Plato, see Ideas
Works: De Anima, 145, 146; Gen. Anim., 146; Ethics, 150ff.; Politics, 124, 152, 161
Assos, 123
Astronomy, Anaximander’s, 28; Aristotle’s, 137
Atheism, 116
Athena, 82
Athens, 64, 81f.
Atomism, 56ff., 148
Autarkeia, 152
Babylonia, 26
Beauty, 120
Berr, Henri, 17
Body, the, in Pythagorean and Platonic doctrine, 95; in Aristotle, 143
Callicles, 102
Causation in Aristotle, 131, 135
Cave, allegory of, 99
Chance as first cause, 53, 117
Change, denied by Parmenides, 48; explained by Aristotle, 130
City-states, 81ff.; upheld by Plato, 84ff.
Colonies, 70
Coriscus, 123
Cornford, F. M., 2, 5, 11, 31, 40, 58, 126
Cosmogonies, mythical, 29
Critias, 78
Critical Philosophy, 17f.
Darwin, 53
Definition, 77
Delphic Oracle, 43, 69
Democracy, Athenian, 64
Democritus, 56ff., 67, 148
Dike, 6f.
Diken, 7
Dynamis, 130ff., 156
Education of Plato’s rulers, 100
Eidos, 153, 156
Ele...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- I. Greek Ways of Thinking
- II. Matter and Form (Ionians and Pythagoreans)
- III. The Problem of Motion (Heraclitus, Parmenides and the Pluralists)
- IV. The Reaction Towards Humanism (The Sophists and Socrates)
- V. Plato (I). The Doctrine of Ideas
- VI. Palto (II). Ethical and Theological Answers to the Sophists
- VII. Aristotle (I). The Aristotelian Universe
- VIII. Aristotle (II). Human Beings
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index