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Author: Donald R. Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0521833426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Author: Donald R. Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-11-22
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1107494885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is thus a literary figure as well as a historical person. Both aspects of Socrates' legacy are covered in this volume. Socrates' character is full of paradox, and so are his philosophical views. These paradoxes have led to deep differences in scholars' interpretations of Socrates and his thought. Mirroring this wide range of thought about Socrates, this volume's contributors are unusually diverse in their background and perspective. The essays in this volume were authored by classical philologists, philosophers and historians from Germany, Francophone Canada, Britain and the United States, and they represent a range of interpretive and philosophical traditions.
Author: Richard Kraut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-10-30
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780521436106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
Author: John Bussanich
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-01-03
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1441112847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing chapters by leading international scholars in Ancient Philosophy, the is a comprehensive one volume reference to guide to Socrates' thought.
Author: David Sedley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780521775038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, literature and science, and a final chapter traces the seminal influence of Greek and Roman philosophy down to the seventeenth century. Practical elements such as tables, illustrations, a glossary, and extensive advice on further reading make it an ideal book to accompany survey courses on the history of ancient philosophy. It will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of this rich and formative period.
Author: Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 0521839637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Author: Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-05-11
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1405192607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy. Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy Examines Socrates’ place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe Addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art Helps readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages
Author: A. A. Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-06-28
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780521446679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Author: Steven B. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-11
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1139828258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and Athens, and most controversially his recovery of the tradition of esoteric writing. The volume also examines Strauss's complex relation to a range of contemporary political movements and thinkers, including Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Gershom Scholem, as well as the creation of a distinctive school of 'Straussian' political philosophy.
Author: Mark L. McPherran
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780271040325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study argues that to understand Socrates we must uncover and analyze his religious views, since his philosophical and religious views are part of one seamless whole. Mark McPherran provides a close analysis of the relevant Socratic texts, an analysis that yields a comprehensive and original account of Socrates' commitments to religion (e.g., the nature of the gods, the immortality of the soul). McPherran contends that Socrates saw his religious commitments as integral to his philosophical mission of moral examination and, in turn, used the rationally derived convictions underlying that mission to reshape the religious conventions of his time. As a result, Socrates made important contributions to the rational reformation of Greek religion, contributions that incited and informed the theology of his brilliant pupil, Plato.
