A History of Ancient Philosophy by Johansen, Karsten Friis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Preface Introduction

The Evidence

Part I: Presocratic Philosophy

1: Myth, Poetry and Philosophy 2: Ionian Natural Philosophy 3: Heraclitus 4: The Pythagoreans 5: The Eleatics

Xenophanes Parmenides Zeno Melissus

6: Post-Parmenidean Natural Philosophy

Empedocles Anaxagoras The Atomists

7: Medical Science

Part II: The Great Century of Athens

8: Pericles’ Athens 9: Tragedy and View of History 10: The Sophists

Protagoras Gorgias Theories of Language Later Social Theories

11: Socrates

Aristophanes’ Socrates Xenophon’s Socrates Plato’s Socrates Other Socratics. Aristotle’s Socrates

Part III: Plato

12: Life, Works and Position

Works The Dialogue Form Myths Plato’s Philosophical Vision

13: What is Virtue? Can Virtue Be Taught?

The Protagoras, Gorgias and Meno

14: Idea and Man

The ‘Classical’ Doctrine of Ideas Logos and ER S: The Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus and Cratylus

15: The Good Constitution of State and Man

The Construction of the State: Books I–V ‘The State in Heaven’ and the Decline of the State: Books V–X

16: The Late Dialogues: Knowledge and Being

The Parmenides The Theaetetus The Sophist

17: The Late Dialogues: Nature, Man and Society

The Timaeus and Critias The Philebus The Laws

18: Plato and the Early Academy

The Seventh Letter The ‘Unwritten Doctrines’ Speusippus and Xenocrates

Part IV: Aristotle

19: Life, Works and Position

Works The Copernican Turning Point Principles and Methods Formal Concepts and Pluralism

20: Logic and Theory of Science

The Categories and De Interpretatione The Analytics Theory of Argumentation

21: Natural Philosophy and Psychology

The Physics Cosmology and Theory of Elements Dynamics Biology Psychology

22: Metaphysics and Theology

What is ‘Being’? What is ‘Substance’? Theology

23: Ethics and Politics

What is Happiness? The Practical Life The Theoretical Life—and Man’s Double Identity Politics

24: Rhetoric and Poetics

Rhetoric Poetics

25: The Early Peripatetics

Part V: Hellenistic Philosophy

26: Science and Philosophy

Mathematics Astronomy Medicine Technology Philosophy

27: Epicurus

Epistemology Physics Ethics Later Epicureanism

28: Early Stoicism

Epistemology, Semantics and Logic Physics and Theology Ethics

29: Scepticism

Academic Scepticism The ‘Pyrrhonian’ Reaction

30: Greece and Rome

Middle Stoicism Cicero

Part VI: Late Antiquity

31: Imperial Rome

Late Stoicism School Philosophy: Platonic, Pythagorean and Aristotelian Trends Plutarch Philo Gnosticism Numenius

32: Plotinus

Plotinus on Principles The Three Hypostases Man

33: Late Neoplatonism

Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus The Aftermath

34: Early Christian Thought

Anti-Christian Polemics Christianity and Philosophy Justin Martyr and Clement of Alexandria Origen The Christological Controversies Early Byzantine Theology and Anthropology

35: Augustine

Works Augustine’s Breakthrough Knowledge of God Man—Knowledge and Will God and Man: Creation, Providence and Freedom The Traces of God

Abbreviations General

Individual Authors and Texts

Bibliography

A: Bibliographies B: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Terminology C: General History of Philosophy and History of Ideas D: Special Subjects (Including History of Science) E: Bibliographical Guide to the Individual Chapters

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →