A History of Ancient Philosophy I: From the Origins to SocratesState University of New York Press, 1 ago 1987 - 452 páginas Beginning with the origins of Western philosophy, the profound creation of the Hellenic genius, Reale presents an appreciation of the Naturalists, the Sophists, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics. Special attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. Interpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the Sophists since he is one of them. Socrates is given major prominence. Plato, Aristotle, and all of Hellenistic philosophy are deeply impregnated with his words and spirit. The teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age. There are two appendices. The first concerns Orphism and contains a series of documents indispensable for the comprehension of some aspects of pre-Socratic and Platonic thought. The second explains the key to understanding the message of the Greeks—the message of "theorein". |
Índice
Introduction | 3 |
The Forms of the Intellectual Life of the Greeks that Prepared | 11 |
The Nature and Problems of Ancient Philosophy | 17 |
The Periods of Ancient Philosophy | 23 |
The Theogonic and Cosmogonic Myths | 29 |
The philosophic propositions attributed to Thales | 35 |
Anaximenes | 45 |
Third Section | 57 |
Protagoras | 157 |
Gorgias | 165 |
The Conclusions of Sophistry 189 | 169 |
Prodicus of Keos | 173 |
Hippias and Antiphon | 179 |
Third Part | 191 |
Socratic Ethics | 199 |
Socratic Theology and Its Significance | 225 |
Man His Soul and His Destiny | 67 |
Fourth Section | 75 |
Parmenides | 83 |
Zeno of Elea | 91 |
Melissus of Samos | 97 |
Empedocles | 103 |
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae | 111 |
The Atomists | 117 |
The Eclectic Physicists | 127 |
Second Part | 133 |
Some Terminological and Conceptual Distinctions That | 139 |
Second Section | 147 |
Socratic Dialectic | 239 |
The Aporias and Structural Limitations of Socraticism | 253 |
Aristippus and the Cyrenaic School | 271 |
Euclid and the Megaric School | 281 |
Phaedo and the School at Elis | 287 |
The extant Oprhic literature and its value | 293 |
The final end of the soul according to Orphism | 300 |
DETERMINATIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS | 305 |
Abbreviations | 327 |
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Términos y frases comunes
affirmation Anaxagoras Anaximander ancient Antisthenes Apology arete argument Aristippus Aristotle Aristotle Metaphysics Athens body clear concept concerned considered contrary cosmos Cyrenaics daimon daimonion Decleva Caizzi derived dialectic dialogue Diogenes Laertius Diogenes of Apollonia divine doctrine Döring earth Eleatic elements Empedocles ethics Euclid Euthydemus everything evil exist explain expressly fact frag fragments Giannantoni goal Gods Gorgias Greek happiness hence Heraclitus Hippias human insofar interpretation knowledge Leucippus likewise living logical logos means Melissus moral Moreover naturalistic nature notion original Orphic Orphism Parmenides passage Phaedo philosophy physical Physicists Plato pleasure political position possible precisely Presocratics principle problems Prodicus Protagoras psyche Pythagoras Pythagoreans reality reason scholars seen sense Sextus Empiricus Sextus Empiricus Adv Socrates Sophists soul sources speak testimonies Thales theogony theoretical things thought true truth unlimited values virtue whole wholly wisdom writes Xenophon Memorabilia Zeller Zeller-Mondolfo LFG Zeller-Reale LFG Zeno