Buch, Englisch, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 261 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 1326 g
Reihe: Philosophic Classics
Ancient Philosophy
Buch, Englisch, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 261 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 1326 g
Reihe: Philosophic Classics
ISBN: 978-1-138-23501-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This seventh edition of Philosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers. In updating this edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to the thinker’s philosophy or widely accepted as part of the "canon." To make the works more accessible to students, most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings, etc.) have been omitted and important Greek words have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition, each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life), (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher’s thought), and (3) bibliographical (suggestions for further reading).
New to this seventh edition:
Changes in translations:
- New translations of Plato’s Apology and Phaedo and Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Politics from the acclaimed Focus Philosophical Library Series.
- New translations of Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito.
- New translations of Epicurus’s Letter to Herodotus, Letter to Menoeceus, and Principal Doctrines.
- New translation of the Parmenides fragments.
Additional material:
- Gorgias’s model oration, Encomium on Helen, which gives a defense of Helen of Troy.
- A selection from Plato’s Gorgias on nature
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Contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BEFORE SOCRATES
The Milesians
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Three Solitary Figures
Pythagoras
Xenophanes
Heraclitus
The Monists
Parmenides
Zeno of Elea
The Pluralists
Empedocles
Anaxagoras
Democritus (and Leucippus)
Three Sophists
Protagoras
Gorgias
Critias
EPILOGUE I: TWO VIEWS OF ATHENS
Thucydides
Pericles’ Funeral Oration
The Melian Conference
EPILOGUE II: ASPASIA
SOCRATES AND PLATO
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Gorgias (482e-484c)
Meno
Symposium (172a-173b, 189c–193d; 201d–223d)
Republic (Book I, 336b–349b, 350d–354b; Book II, 357a–362c, 368e–376e; Book III, 386b-388a, 412b–417b; Book IV, 427d–445e; Book V, 449-462e, 469c-474a; Book VI–VII, 502c–521b; Book VIII, 562a–563e; Book IX, 580d-583a)
Parmenides (127a–135d)
Theaetetus (selections)
Timaeus (27d–34b)
Laws (selections)
ARISTOTLE
Categories (Chapters 1–5)
On Interpretation (Chapters 1–9)
Posterior Analytics (Book I, 1–2; Book II, 19)
Physics (Book II complete)
Metaphysics (Book I complete; Book IV, 1-4, 7; Book XII complete)
On the Soul (Book II, 1–3; Book III, 4–5)
Nicomachean Ethics (Book I–II; Book III, 1–5; Book IV, 3; Books VI–VII; Book X, 6–8, 9)
Politics (Book I, 1–2; Book III, 6–9; Book IV, 11–12; Book VII, 3b–4, 9)
Poetics (Chapter 6)
HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
Epicurus
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Menoeceus
Principal Doctrines
Lucretius
On the Nature of Things (Book Two, 216–284; Book Three, selections through 831)
The Early Stoa
Zeno of Citium (selections from Diogenes Laertius)
Cleanthes—Hymn to Zeus
Epictetus
Handbook (Enchiridion)
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations (Book IV)
Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Book I, 1–13)
Plotinus and Porphyry
Life of Plotinus (Chapters 1-2)
Enneads (I, Tractate 6; V, Tractate 1, 1–12)
