A Companion to Ancient Philosophy
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A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

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A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

About this book

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive and current overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from its origins until late antiquity.

  • Comprises an extensive collection of original essays, featuring contributions from both rising stars and senior scholars of ancient philosophy
  • Integrates analytic and continental traditions
  • Explores the development of various disciplines, such as mathematics, logic, grammar, physics, and medicine, in relation to ancient philosophy
  • Includes an illuminating introduction, bibliography, chronology, maps and an index

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Yes, you can access A Companion to Ancient Philosophy by Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin, Mary Louise Gill,Pierre Pellegrin,Pierre Pellegrin, Mary Louise Gill, Pierre Pellegrin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Ancient & Classical Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Chronology
  5. Map
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I Early Greek Philosophy
  8. 1 The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece
  9. 2 Ancient Philosophy and the Doxographical Tradition
  10. 3 Parmenides and After: Unity and Plurality 1
  11. 4 The Concept of the Universal in Some Later Pre-Platonic Cosmologists
  12. 5 The Sophistic Movement
  13. Part II Socrates, the Socratics, and Plato
  14. 6 Socrates
  15. 7 Minor Socratics
  16. 8 The Platonic Dialogue
  17. 9 Plato ’s Ethics:Early and Middle Dialogues
  18. 10 Plato’s Political Philosophy: The Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws
  19. 11 Plato’s Metaphysics and Dialectic
  20. 12 Plato ’s Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics
  21. Part III Aristotle
  22. 13 The Aristotelian Way
  23. 14 Aristotle’s Logic and Theory of Science
  24. 15 Aristotle’s Physics and Cosmology
  25. 16 Aristotle’s Biology and Aristotle’s Philosophy
  26. 17 Aristotle ’s Psychology
  27. 18 First Philosophy in Aristotle
  28. 19 Aristotle’s Ethics
  29. 20 Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
  30. Part IV Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age
  31. 21 Philosophic Schools in Hellenistic and Roman Times
  32. 22 The Problem of Sources
  33. 23 The New Academy and its Rivals
  34. 24 Pyrrhonism
  35. 25 Epicureanism
  36. 26 Stoic Logic
  37. 27 Stoic Ethics
  38. 28 Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism
  39. Part V Middle and Late Platonism
  40. 29 Middle Platonism
  41. 30 Plotinus
  42. 31 What was Commentary in Late Antiquity? The Example of the Neoplatonic Commentators
  43. Part VI Culture, Philosophy, and the Sciences
  44. 32 Greek Philosophy and Religion
  45. 33 Philosophy of Language
  46. 34 Ancient Medicine and its Contribution to the Philosophical Tradition
  47. 35 Greek Mathematics (Arithmetic,Geometry, Proportion Theory)to the Time of Euclid
  48. Index Locorum
  49. Index