Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311236998X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
No detailed description available for "GOMPERZ: GREEK THINKERS VOL. 1 GOMPGT E-BOOK".
Theodor Gomperz: Greek Thinkers. Vol. 1
Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311236998X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
No detailed description available for "GOMPERZ: GREEK THINKERS VOL. 1 GOMPGT E-BOOK".
Selected Works Vol. 1
Author: Andrew MurrayPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1936392135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Greek Thinkers
Author: Theodor GomperzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781294092339
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans
Author: William Keith Chambers GuthriePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521294201
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy
Author: Daniel W. GrahamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521845912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
Book Description
This two-part volume collects the complete fragments and most important testimonies for the leading presocratic philosophers. The Greek and Latin texts are translated on facing pages and accompanied by a brief commentary for each philosopher.
Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition
Author: Kyriakos N. DemetriouPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004280499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
George Grote’s (1794-1871) extensive publications on ancient Greek history and philosophy remain landmarks in the history of classical scholarship. Since the late 20thcentury, lively interest in the works of Grote has seen his profile revived and his ongoing significance highlighted: he has taken up his rightful place among the most celebrated nineteenth-century classical intellectuals. Grote’s critical engagement with Greek historiography and philosophy revolutionized classical studies in his day – a revolution set against both long-established interpretations and prevailing trends in German Altertumswissenschaft. Twenty-first-century scholarship shows that Grote’s works remain lively, sparkling and relevant, as they offers valuable insights that cut across the intellectual borders of the Victorian age. His diligent scholarship, fascination with evidence and sound judgement, intertwined with intriguing and insightful narrative prose, continue to captivate the attention of modern readers. In Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition Kyriakos N. Demetriou leads a team of prominent scholars to contextualize, unravel and explore Grote’s works as well as provide a critical assessment of his posthumous legacy.
Three Traditions of Greek Political Thought
Author: George T. MenakePublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761829614
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Three Traditions of Greek Political Thought: Plato in Dialogue is an analysis of the emergence of Western philosophical and political thought in archaic and classical Greece. With particular focus on Plato, this book is an in-depth study of the contentious dialogue in classical political philosophy. In the late archaic and classical periods, two major traditions of philosophical and political thought developed. One tradition was associated with the Presocratic mechanistic materialistic philosophers and the Sophists. The second tradition, beginning with Pythagoras, gained full expression in the collected dialogues of Plato. Both of these philosophic traditions challenged the long established Greek mythico/religious tradition associated with Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and others. This study examines the dynamic dialogue involving these three traditions, which present competing and conflicting world views. It concludes that Plato's dialogues, taken together, quintessentially embody the mainstream dialogue or trialogue, as it could be called, in Greek political thought. This book also makes the case that the three major traditions of Greek political thought set the stage for the future dialogue of Western political philosophy even to this day.
An Archaeology of Disbelief
Author: Edward JaynePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761869670
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton’s concept of gravity, Darwin’s concept of evolution, and Einstein’s concept of relativity. Aristotle’s follower Strato invented scientific experimentation. He also inspired the pursuit of science and advocated the rejection of all beliefs unconfirmed by science. Carneades in turn distorted Aristotelian logic to ridicule the god concept, and Lucretius proposed a grand secular cosmology in his epic De Rerum Natura. In the two dialogues, Academica and De Natura Deorum, Cicero provided a useful retrospective assessment of this entire movement. The Roman Empire and advent of Christianity effectively terminated Greek philosophy except for Platonism reinvented as stoicism. Widespread destruction of libraries eliminated most early secular texts, and the Inquisition played a major role in preventing secular inquiry. Aquinas later justified Aristotle in light of Christian doctrine, and secularism’s revival was postponed until the seventeenth century’s paradoxical reaction against his interpretation of Aristotle. Today it nevertheless remains possible to trace western civilization’s remarkable secular achievement to its initial breakthrough in ancient Greece. The purpose of this book is accordingly to trace the origin and development of its secular thought through close examination of texts that still exist today in light of Aristotle’s writings.
Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition
Author: Cedric J. RobinsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469663732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and Black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism, Robinson argues, must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of Blacks on Western continents, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by Blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century Black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright. This revised and updated third edition includes a new preface by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.
Black Marxism
Author: Cedric J. RobinsonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876127
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright.