Ancient Philosophy

Textual Paths and Historical Explorations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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‘We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece’, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for a method of investigation. This book tries to rediscover the propulsive force that for over two millennia spread, and still lives in our system of thought. By systematically quoting the very words of the leading actors and by tracing their sources, it leads the reader along a path where they will be able to observe the establishment of philosophical ideas and language, in an updated and balanced picture of archaic lore, of the thought of the classical and hellenistic ages, and of the philosophy of late antiquity. The book looks closely at the progress of scientific thought and at its increasing autonomy, while following the evolution of the fruitful yet problematic relationship between the Greek world and the Near East.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 51 mm
Vikt:1 710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:806
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138680999

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Lorenzo Perilli is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy, and the Director of the transdisciplinary Research Centre in Classics, Mathematics and Philosophy ‘Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World’. His research interests include Ancient medicine and science, Presocratic philosophy, textual criticism, and humanities computing. Daniela P. Taormina is Professor in Greek Philosophy at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy. Her research activity concerns especially the philosophy of Late Antiquity, from Middle-Platonism to the Platonic philosophers of the VI century AD and is focused in particular on the domains of psychology and post-Plotinian ontology. Most recently, she is co-editor and contributor of Plotinus and Epicurus. Matter, Perception, Pleasure (2016).

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This book gives an excellent overview of the development of philosophy in the classical world. Perilli and Taormina have put together an innovative history of ancient philosophy.Teun Tieleman, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Innehållsförteckning

1. East and WestM. Laura Gemelli Marciano2. Ancient philosophy and the doxographical traditionJaap Mansfeld2a. The transmission of ancient philosophyLorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina, with Jaap Mansfeld3. Philosophical Stones: Ancient philosophy as reflected in the mirror of inscriptionsGeorg Petzl4. Socio-historical outline of the Archaic periodPaolo Tuci5. "You Greeks are always children": The infancy of wisdomLorenzo Perilli6. The PresocraticsLorenzo Perilli6a. New discoveries of ancient philosophical and scientific textsLorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina7. The sophists and SocratesRick Benitez7a. The sophists: Key figuresLorenzo Perilli, Daniela P. Taormina, with Rick Benitez8. Socio-historical outline of the Classical and Hellenistic periodsPaolo Tuci9. PlatoMaria Isabel Santa Cruz10. The Academy from Plato to PolemoDimitri El Murr10a. Academic philosophers (4th-1st cent. BC)Tiziano Dorandi11. AristotleJames G. Lennox11a. Aristotle’s poeticsGuido Paduano12. Hellenistic philosophyKeimpe Algra13. Socio-historical outline of the Roman periodFederico De Romanis14. Some remarks on ancient scienceLorenzo Perilli14a. Logos and algorithmsPaolo Zellini15. Philosophy in RomeTherese Fuhrer15a. Lucretius: a failed subversionLuca Canali16. Socio-historical outline of the later Roman empireUmberto Roberto17. Platonism, Pythagoreanism, AristotelianismDominic J. O’Meara18. Greek philosophy and philosophers in the 3rd-6th Cent. ADFrom Plotinus to the last Alexandrian commentatorsDaniela P. Taormina19. Augustine of Hippo and the new Christian cultureMarta CristianiAristotle’s TestamentIndex