Ancient Philosophy: A Textual and Historical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138668812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 806 str.

Perilli Lorenzo; Taormina Daniela

Opis

Ancient Philosophy provides a broad introduction to ancient philosophy, including influences from the Ancient Near East, up to Late Antiquity. A collection of chapters from leading scholars explore the developments of key thinkers and schools of ancient thought. The book provides contextualising introductions to the major periods allowing the seating of thought within its wider environment as well as using primary source material to help illuminate analysis. By examining Greek thought in its widest sense Ancient Philosophy is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to understand the beginnings of philosophy.

O autorze

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).