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Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

Objektkategorie:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Shields, Christopher
Bereitstellende Institution:
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Verlag:
Taylor & Francis Group
Ort:
Milton
Entstehungszeit:
2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Philosophy before Socrates -- 1.1 Thales and the earliest natural philosophers -- 1.2 Xenophanes -- 1.3 Heracleitus -- 1.4 Parmenides and Zeno -- 1.5 Democritus and fifth-century atomism -- 1.6 The Sophistic movement -- 1.7 Challenges from the Presocratics and Sophists -- Notes -- Suggestions for additional readings -- 2 Socrates -- 2.1 The Socratic elenchus -- 2.2 The failures of Meno and Euthyphro -- 2.3 Socratic ignorance and Socratic irony -- 2.4 Socratic conviction and the Socratic paradoxes -- 2.5 Socrates on trial and in prison -- 2.6 Conclusions -- Notes -- Suggestions for additional readings -- 3 Plato -- 3.1 From Socrates to Plato -- 3.2 Meno's paradox of inquiry -- Plato's response -- 3.3 Three functions of Plato's theory of forms -- 3.4 Plato's response to Sophistry: relativism and rhetoric -- 3.5 Three arguments for Forms -- 3.6 Plato's general characterizations of forms -- 3.7 Platonic analysis: a case study -- 3.8 The special role of the Form of the Good -- 3.9 Plato's line and cave: our epistemic prospects -- 3.10 Problems about Forms -- 3.11 Conclusions -- Notes -- Suggestions for additional readings -- 4 Aristotle -- 4.1 From Plato to Aristotle -- 4.2 Aristotle's introduction of category theory -- 4.3 The four causes introduced -- 4.4 The four causes defended -- 4.5 The four causes applied: soul and body -- 4.6 The four causes applied: happiness and the human function -- 4.7 The virtues of a happy person -- 4.8 Aristotle's treatment of a Socratic paradox: akrasia -- 4.9 Aristotle's political naturalism -- 4.10 Aristotle on philosophical analysis: homonymy -- 4.11 Conclusions -- Notes -- Suggestions for additional readings -- 5. Hellenistic philosophy -- 5.1 The Hellenistic period -- 5.2 The Epicureans.
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Datensatz angelegt am:
2023-04-12
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2022-11-25
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2023-04-12