Ebook: Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge
- Series: Harvard University Press reference library.
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- City: Cambridge, Mass.
- Edition: English
- Language: English
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"Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought -- investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they Read more...
Philosophy. The philosopher ; Images of the world ; Myth and knowledge ; The question of being ; Epistemology ; Ethics --
Politics. The statesman as political actor ; Inventing politics ; Utopia and the critique of politics ; The sage and politics --
The pursuit of knowledge. Schools and sites of learning ; Observation and research ; Demonstration and the idea of science ; Astronomy ; Cosmology ; Geography ; Harmonics ; History ; Language ; Logic ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Physics ; Poetics ; Rhetoric ; Technology ; Theology and divination ; Theories of religion --
Major figures. Anaxagoras ; Antisthenes ; Archimedes ; Aristotle ; Democritus ; Epicurus ; Euclid ; Galen ; Heraclitus ; Herodotus ; Hippocrates ; Parmenides ; Plato ; Plotinus ; Plutarch ; Polybius ; Protagoras ; Ptolemy ; Pyrrhon ; Socrates ; Thucydides ; Xenophon ; Zeno --
Currents of thought. The academy ; Aristotelianism ; Cynicism ; Hellenism and Christianity ; Hellenism and Judaism ; The Milesians ; Platonism ; Pythagoreanism ; Skepticism ; Sophists ; Stoicism.