ABSTRACT

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six main parts. The sections are further divided into philosophers and philosophical movements:
*Pre-Socratic Philosophy, including mythology, the Pythagoreans and Parmenides
*The Great Century of Athens, including the Sophists and Socrates
*Plato, including The Republic, The Symposium and The Timaeus
*Aristotle, including The Physics, The Metaphysics and The Poetics
*Hellenistic Philosophy, including the Sceptics, the Stoics, the Epicureans and Cicero
*Late Antiquity, including Neoplatonism, Origen and St Augustine.
This comprehensive and meticulously documented book is structured to make ancient philosophical thought and ancient thinkers accessible. It contains:
*full references to primary sources
*detailed interpretations of key philosophical passages, including surveys of previous philosophical readings
*an overview of the development of ancient philosophical thought
*discussions of the relationships between philosophers and their ideas
*analyses of key philosophical concepts and ideologies including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, theology and aesthetics
*explanations of Greek philosophical terminology.

chapter |8 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

PART I PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY

chapter 1|10 pages

MYTH, POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY

chapter 2|10 pages

IONIAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

chapter 3|8 pages

HERACLITUS

chapter 4|10 pages

THE PYTHAGOREANS

chapter 5|14 pages

THE ELEATICS

chapter 6|20 pages

POST-PARMENIDEAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

chapter 7|4 pages

MEDICAL SCIENCE

part |2 pages

PART II THE GREAT CENTURY OF ATHENS

chapter 8|4 pages

PERICLES’ ATHENS

chapter 9|12 pages

TRAGEDY AND VIEW OF HISTORY

chapter 10|20 pages

THE SOPHISTS

chapter 11|20 pages

SOCRATES

part |2 pages

PART III PLATO

chapter 12|22 pages

LIFE, WORKS AND POSITION

chapter 13|14 pages

WHAT IS VIRTUE? CAN VIRTUE BE TAUGHT?

chapter 14|24 pages

IDEA AND MAN

chapter 15|16 pages

THE GOOD CONSTITUTION OF STATE AND MAN

chapter 16|24 pages

THE LATE DIALOGUES: KNOWLEDGE AND BEING

chapter 17|18 pages

THE LATE DIALOGUES: NATURE, MAN AND SOCIETY

chapter 18|12 pages

PLATO AND THE EARLY ACADEMY

part |2 pages

PART IV ARISTOTLE

chapter 19|24 pages

LIFE, WORKS AND POSITION

chapter 20|22 pages

LOGIC AND THEORY OF SCIENCE

chapter 21|28 pages

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY

chapter 22|24 pages

METAPHYSICS AND THEOLOGY

chapter 23|26 pages

ETHICS AND POLITICS

chapter 24|8 pages

RHETORIC AND POETICS

chapter 25|6 pages

THE EARLY PERIPATETICS

part |2 pages

PART V HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY

chapter 26|16 pages

SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

chapter 27|20 pages

EPICURUS

chapter 28|28 pages

EARLY STOICISM

chapter 29|14 pages

SCEPTICISM

chapter 30|14 pages

GREECE AND ROME

part |2 pages

PART VI LATE ANTIQUITY

chapter 31|32 pages

IMPERIAL ROME

chapter 32|24 pages

PLOTINUS

chapter 33|14 pages

LATE NEOPLATONISM

chapter 34|20 pages

EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

chapter 35|36 pages

AUGUSTINE