Author: R. W. SharplesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC-200 AD: Platonists, Academics and Pythagoreans
Author: R. W. SharplesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC-200 AD
Author: R. W. SharplesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781905670086
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC-200 AD: Stoics and cynics
Author: R. W. SharplesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC
Author: Malcolm SchofieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139619802
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism.
Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250
Author: George Boys-StonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108229484
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of considering it primarily in terms of its sources, instead putting its contemporary philosophical engagements front and centre to reconstruct its philosophical motivations and activity across the full range of its interests. The volume explores the ideas at the heart of Platonist philosophy in this period and includes a comprehensive selection of primary sources, a significant number of which appear in English translation for the first time, along with dedicated guides to the questions that have been, and might be, asked about the movement. The result is a tool intended to help bring the study of Middle Platonism into mainstream discussions of ancient philosophy.
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
Author: Daniel S. RichterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199837481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define, as much as is possible in a single volume, the state of this rapidly developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g. gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the Classical traditions and early Christianity). The Handbook also contains essays devoted to the work of the most significant intellectuals of the period such as Plutarch, Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Apuleius, the novelists, the Philostrati and Aelius Aristides. In addition to content and bibliographical guidance, however, this volume is designed to help to situate the textual remains within the period and its society, to describe and circumscribe not simply the literary matter but the literary culture and societal context. For that reason, the Handbook devotes considerable space at the front to various contextual essays, and throughout tries to keep the contextual demands in mind. In its scope and in its pluralism of voices this Handbook thus represents a new approach to the Second Sophistic, one that attempts to integrate Greek literature of the Roman period into the wider world of early imperial Greek, Latin, Jewish, and Christian cultural production, and one that keeps a sharp focus on situating these texts within their socio-cultural context.
The Oxford Handbook of Plato
Author: Gail FinePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199720371
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one commissioned articles in The Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history. Each article is an original contribution from a leading scholar, and they all serve several functions at once: they survey the lay of the land; express and develop the authors' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. This Handbook contains chapters on metaphysics, epistemology, love, language, ethics, politics, art and education. Individual chapters are devoted to each of the following dialogues: the Republic, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, and Philebus. There are also chapters on Plato and the dialogue form; on Plato in his time and place; on the history of the Platonic corpus; on Aristotle's criticism of Plato, and on Plato and Platonism.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy
Author: Myrto GaraniPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199328382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
"Several decades of scholarship by now have demonstrated that Roman thinkers have developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer a range of perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. This collection of essays pursues a maximally inclusive approach, covering not only authors such as Augustine, but also poets or historians. It pays attention to the mode in which these works were written (giving rhetoric too its due) and their often conscious reflections on the process of translating, or transferring Greek ideas to Roman contexts"--
Greek Thinkers: book v. (continued) Plato. 1905
Author: Theodor GomperzPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Plato and Platonism
Author: Walter PaterPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This important new series, under the editorship of a preeminent American scholar, revivifies some of the most influential classics of nineteenth-century literary thought. Forerunners of our aesthetic sensibility, these volumes are a great voice from the last century calling us to ourselves.