Joseph B. Mayor

Ancient Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1881, this book presents a guide to classical philosophy aimed at undergraduates and those studying the works of Cicero, Plato or Aristotle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781316626061
• ISBN-10: 1316626067
• Artikelnr.: 46166948

Autorenporträt

J.B. Mayor was Professor of Classics and of Moral Philosophy at King's College, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Pre-Socratic Philosophy of Nature: 1. Ionic school. One ever-changing self-developed universe (dynamical physicism); 2. Italic school. One unchanging self-existent universe (transcendental physicism); 3. Ionico-Italic school. Changing universe formed out of a plurality of unchanging elements (mechanical physicism); Part II. Socrates to Aristotle: Philosophy of Nature and Man: 4. Sophists; 5. BC 470
399, Socrates; 6. Cynics; 7. Cyrenaics; 8. BC 428
347, Plato; 9. BC 385
322, Aristotle; Part III. Post-Aristotelian Philosophy of Man: Characteristics of the Later Philosophy: 10. Peripatetics; 11. Sceptics; 12. Academy old; 13. Academy sceptical (by Cicero called 'new'); 14. Stoicism; 15. Epicureanism; 16. Eclecticism; 17. BC 106
43, Cicero; 18. Concluding reflexions.