Retrieving the Ancients - An Introduction to Greek Philosophy, 2nd Edition

ISBN-13: 9781119892038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 288 str.

D Roochnik

Spis treści

ContentsPrologue viiiIntroduction 1Two Reasons to Study Ancient Greek Philosophy 1The Organization and Strategy of This Book 71 The Presocratics 11Preliminaries 11Before the Beginning: Hesiod 12The Ionian Philosophers of the Sixth Century 18a) The Beginning: Thales of Miletus 18b) The First Debate: Anaximander v. Anaximenes 22c) Sixth-Century Rationalism: Xenophanes and Pythagoras 26d) The Crisis of Sixth-Century Philosophy 31Heraclitus and Parmenides: Extreme Solutions 33a) Heraclitus: Lover of Flux 33b) Parmenides: Champion of Being 42Fifth-Century Elementalism 51a) Democritus: Atomic Theory 52b) Empedocles: Evolution 61c) Anaxagoras 652 The Sophists and Socrates 69A New Beginning: The Sophists 69Protagoras 71Gorgias 79Socrates 833 Plato 95Preliminaries 95Plato's Critique of the Presocratics 98Plato's Critique of the Sophists 105a) The "Self-Reference" Argument 106b) The Reductio ad Absurdum 107c) "What is it?" 112d) "The Old Quarrel": Philosophy v. Sophistry 119Recollection 120a) The Phaedo 120b) The Meno 125The Divided Line and the Form of the Good 132a) The Divided Line 132b) The Form of the Good 138Eros 140The Political Implications of the Forms 1534 Aristotle 167Preliminaries 167Aristotle's Conception of Nature 173a) "By Nature" 173b) Form and Matter 182c) The Four Causes 186Aristotle's Psychology 194Teleological Ethics 208a) Moral Virtue 208b) Intellectual Virtue 220Natural Politics 224a) The Political Animal 224b) Best Life; Best City 231Conclusion 235Epilogue 241Appendix 257References 269Index 275

O autorze

DAVID ROOCHNIK is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He has published numerous books and articles on ancient Greek philosophy and literature, rhetoric, post-modernism, and the nature of philosophy. His books include Retrieving Aristotle in an Age of Crisis, Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates, Beautiful City: The Dialectical Character of Plato's Republic, and Eat, Drink, Think: What Ancient Greece Can Tell Us About Food and Wine.