Download or read book A History of Ancient Philosophy I written by Giovanni Reale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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".
Download or read book Philo Socrates Vol 4 written by William Ellis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 4: A Series of Papers, Wherein Subjects Are Investigated Which, There Is Reason to Believe, Would Have Interested Socrates; Among the Hindoos H. It so happens that we first incurred their displeasure by seeking explanations when we could not follow their instructions. They seemed to be taken by surprise at our questions, as if expecting us to adopt what they dictated, not to learn as well as we could what they taught. There must be some misapprehension between us. It may be, when they express a desire for our conversion, that they have no thought of instructing us. P. And if by conversion they mean something more than instruction, if they wish to draw you away from the thoughts and lines of conduct which lead to misery, not only in this life, but in a life to come, ought you not to be grateful for their efforts in your behalf, even if unsuccessful? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Changing the Subject written by Raymond Geuss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.” —Times Literary Supplement “Exceptionally engaging...Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Geuss is something like the consummate teacher, his analyses navigable and crystal, his guidance on point.” —Doug Phillips, Key Reporter Raymond Geuss explores the ideas of twelve philosophers who broke dramatically with prevailing wisdom, from Socrates and Plato in the ancient world to Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Adorno. The result is a striking account of some of the most innovative thinkers in Western history and an indirect manifesto for how to pursue philosophy today. Geuss cautions that philosophers’ attempts to break from convention do not necessarily make the world a better place. Montaigne’s ideas may have been benign, but the fate of those of Hobbes, Hegel, and Nietzsche has been more varied. Yet in the act of provoking people to think differently, philosophers remind us that we are not fated to live within the systems of thought we inherit.
Download or read book Socratic Philosophy and Its Others written by Denise Schaeffer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of figures who appear in the dialogues as distinct “others” against whom Socrates is contrasted—most obviously, the figure of the sophist, but also the tragic hero, the rhetorician, the tyrant, and the poet. Each of the individual essays shows, in a different way, that the harder one tries to disentangle Socrates’ own activity from that of its apparent opposite, the more entangled they become. Yet, it is only by taking this entanglement seriously, and exploring it fully, that the distinctive character of Socratic philosophy emerges. As a whole, the collection sheds new light on the artful ways in which Plato not only represents philosophy in relation to what it is not, but also makes it “strange” to itself. It shows how concerns that seem to be raised about the activity of philosophical questioning (from the point of view of the political community, for example) can be seen, upon closer examination, to emerge from within that very enterprise. Each of the essays then goes on to consider how Socratic philosophizing can be defined, and its virtues defended, against an attack that comes as much from within as from without. The volume includes chapters by distinguished contributors such as Catherine Zuckert, Ronna Burger, Michael Davis, Jacob Howland, and others, the majority of which were written especially for this volume. Together, they address an important theme in Plato’s dialogues that is touched upon in the literature but has never been the subject of a book-length study that traces its development across a wide range of dialogues. One virtue of the collection is that it brings together a number of prominent scholars from both political science and philosophy whose work intersects in important and revealing ways. A related virtue is that it treats more familiar dialogues (Republic, Sophist, Apology, Phaedrus) alongside some works that are less well known (Theages, Major Hippias, Minor Hippias, Charmides, and Lovers). While the volume is specialized in its topic and approach, the overarching question—about the potentially troubling implications of Socratic philosophy, and the Platonic response—should be of interest to a broad range of scholars in philosophy, political science, and classics.
Download or read book A History of Greek Philosophy Volume 1 The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans written by William Keith Chambers Guthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
Download or read book Philo Socrates Vol 4 written by William Ellis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philo-Socrates, Vol. 4: Among the Teachers P. Showing how far safer it is to prevent the growth of superstition than to separate it from religion after they have had time to entwine themselves with the affections into one strong cord wherewith to tie down intelligence and all aspira tions for improvement. T. Unfortunately, we are no longer children; and on that account we have less time to learn, while we may have much to unlearn. But we hope that you will not abandon us in order to return to your favourite pupils - the children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Socrates written by Luis E. Navia and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher Luis E. Navia presents a compelling portrayal of Socrates in this very readable and well-researched book, which is both a biography of the man and an exploration of his ideas.
Download or read book A History of Greek Philosophy Volume 4 Plato The Man and His Dialogues Earlier Period written by W. K. C. Guthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-04-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume.
Download or read book Greek Thinkers book IV Socrates and the Socratics book v Plato 1905 written by Theodor Gomperz and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Socrates written by Sarah Kofman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates is an flusive figure, Sarah Kofman asserts, and he is necessarily so since he did not write or directly state his beliefs. Kofman suggests that Socrates' avowal of ignorance was meant to be ironic. Later philosophers who interpreted his text invariably resisted the profoundly ironic character of his way of life and diverged widely in their interpretations of him. Kofman focuses especially on the views of Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche.
Download or read book Greek Thinkers book IV Socrates and the Socratics book V Plato 1905 written by Theodor Gomperz and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Socrates written by Donald R. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.
Download or read book The Trial and Death of Socrates written by Plato and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.
Download or read book Philosophy as a Way of Life written by Pierre Hadot and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot's book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.
Download or read book book IV Socrates and the Socratics book V Plato 1905 written by Theodor Gomperz and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greek Thinkers book IV Socrates and the Socratics book V Plato 1905 written by Theodor Gomperz and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophy 101 by Socrates written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular author and Boston College philosophy professor, Kreeft, presents this introduction to philosophy to help beginners not only to understand philosophy but to fall in love with it. In his forty years of teaching philosophy, Kreeft says the most effective way to accomplish this purpose is to read Socrates. Philosophy means "the love of wisdom." Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates in this book to help the reader grow in that love of wisdom. He says that no master of the art of philosophizing has ever been more simple, clear, and accessible to beginners as Socrates. He focuses on Plato's dialogues, the Apology of Socrates, as a model partner for the reader to dialogue with. Kreeft calls it "the Magna Carta of philosophy," a timeless classic that is "a portable classroom."
