Details

Subject(s)

• Philosophy, Ancient [Browse]
• Philosophers, Ancient [Browse]

Series

• Routledge Classics [More in this series]
• Routledge classics

Summary note

With an new foreword by James WarrenLong renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy - foundations that underpin Western thought today. Guthrie explores the great age of Greek Philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - whilst combining comprehensiveness with brevity. He unpacks the ideas and arguments of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather t

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

FOREWORD TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS; 1 Greek ways of thinking; 2 Matter and form (Ionians and Pythagoreans); 3 The problem of motion (Heraclitus, Parmenides and the pluralists); 4 The reaction towards humanism (the Sophists and Socrates); 5 Plato (i) The Doctrine of Ideas; 6 Plato (ii) Ethical and theological answers to the Sophists; 7 Aristotle (i) The Aristotelian universe; 8 Aristotle (ii) Human beings; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; INDEX

ISBN

• 9780203105689 (ebook)
• 1136254781
• 1283606755
• 9786613919205
• 113625479X
• 0203105680

OCLC

• 811078938
• 892496980

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