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Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy

Author : Myrto Hatzimichali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949614X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy written by Myrto Hatzimichali and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclecticism is a concept widely used in the history of ancient philosophy to describe the intellectual stance of diverse thinkers such as Plutarch, Cicero and Seneca. In this book the historical and interpretative problems associated with eclecticism are for the first time approached from the point of view of the only self-described eclectic philosopher from Antiquity, Potamo of Alexandria. The evidence is examined in detail with reference to the philosophical and wider intellectual background of the period. Potamo's views are placed in the context of key debates at the forefront of late Hellenistic philosophical activity to which he contributed, such as the criterion of truth, the first principles in physics, the moral end and the interpretation of Aristotle's esoteric works. The emergence of eclecticism is thus treated in connection with the major shift in philosophical interests and methods that marked the passage from Hellenistic to Imperial philosophy.

The Philosophers of the Ancient World

Author : Trevor Curnow
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0715634976
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophers of the Ancient World written by Trevor Curnow and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on over 2,300 ancient Western philosophers, from Abammon to Zoticus. Covering the period from the seventh century BC to the seventh century AD, this book summarises the ideas of the major thinkers, and an historical overview of ancient philosophy allows them to be placed in their proper context.

A History of Western Philosophy: Beginnings to Plotinus

Author : Ralph McInerny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Philosophy: Beginnings to Plotinus written by Ralph McInerny and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pyrrhonism

Author : Adrian Kuzminski
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739131397
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Pyrrhonism written by Adrian Kuzminski and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-06-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from its founder Pyrrho of Elis in the fourth century BCE through Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Pyrrhonists offer no view, theory, or knowledge about the world, but recommend instead a practice, a distinct way of life, designed to suspend beliefs and ease suffering. Adrian Kuzminski examines Pyrrhonism in terms of its striking similarity to some Eastern non-dogmatic soteriological traditions-particularly Madhyamaka Buddhism. He argues that its origin can plausibly be traced to the contacts between Pyrrho and the sages he encountered in India, where he traveled with Alexander the Great. Although Pyrrhonism has not been practiced in the West since ancient times, its insights have occasionally been independently recovered, most recently in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Kuzminski shows that Pyrrhonism remains relevant perhaps more than ever as an antidote to today's cultures of belief.

Cicero: On Duties

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316139123
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Cicero: On Duties written by Marcus Tullius Cicero and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would survive, Cicero here handed on the insights of an elder statesman, adept at political theory and practice, to his son, and through him, to the younger generation in general. De Officiis has often been treated merely as a key to the lost Greek works that Cicero used. This volume aims to render De Officiis, which was such an important influence on later masterpieces of Western political thought, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. A wholly new translation is accompanied by a lucid introduction and all the standard features of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, including a chronology, select bibliography, and notes on the vocabulary and significant individuals mentioned in the text.

Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Author : Diogenes Laertius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Eminent Philosophers written by Diogenes Laertius and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel Greek & English texts.

Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Author : Diogenes Laertius
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190862181
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Eminent Philosophers written by Diogenes Laertius and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since the Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the third century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures-from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus-than any other ancient source. This new edition of the Lives, in a faithful and eminently readable translation by Pamela Mensch, is the first rendering of the complete text into English in nearly a century. Lavishly illustrated with a vast array of artwork that attests to the profound impact of Diogenes on the Western imagination, this edition also includes detailed notes and a variety of newly commissioned essays by leading scholars that shed light on the work's historical and intellectual contexts as well as its rich legacy. The result is a capacious, fascinating, and charming compendium of ancient inspiration and instruction.

The Morality of Happiness

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195096525
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Morality of Happiness written by Julia Annas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the major traditions of ancient ethical theory, showing that they share a common theoretical structure. They are examples of eudaimonism, a type of ethical theory in which the basic concepts are those of happiness and virtue.

The Uses of Paradox

Author : Matthew C. Bagger
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023151185X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Paradox written by Matthew C. Bagger and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking comparative study, Matthew Bagger investigates the role of paradox in Western and Asian religious discourse. Drawing on both philosophy and social scientific theory, he offers a naturalistic explanation of religion's oft-noted propensity to sublime paradox and argues that religious thinkers employ intractable paradoxes as the basis for various techniques of self-transformation. Considering the writings of Kierkegaard, Pseudo-Dionysus, St. John of the Cross, N?g?rjuna, and Chuang-tzu, among others, Bagger identifies two religious uses of paradox: cognitive asceticism, which wields the psychological discomfort of paradox as an instrument of self-transformation, and mysticism, which seeks to transform the self through an alleged extraordinary cognition that ineffably comprehends paradox. Bagger contrasts these techniques of self-transformation with skepticism, which cultivates the appearance of contradiction in order to divest a person of beliefs altogether. Bagger further contends that a thinker's social attitudes determine his or her response to paradox. Attitudes concerning crossing the boundary of a social group prefigure attitudes concerning supposed truths that lie beyond the boundaries of understanding. Individuals who fear crossing the boundary of their social group and would prohibit them tend to use paradox ascetically, while individuals who find the controlled incorporation of outsiders enriching commonly find paradox revelatory. Although scholars have long noted that religious discourse seems to cultivate and perpetuate paradox, their scholarship tends to ratify religious attitudes toward paradox instead of explaining the unusual reaction paradox provokes. A vital contribution to discussions of mystical experience, The Uses of Paradox reveals how much this experience relies on social attitudes and cosmological speculation.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678800X
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

The Quest for the Good Life

Author : Øyvind Rabbås
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191064017
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Good Life written by Øyvind Rabbås and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the object of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium. While the centrality of the notion of happiness in ancient ethics is well known, this book is unique in that it focuses directly on this notion, as it appears in the ancient texts. Fourteen papers by an international team of scholars map the various approaches and conceptions found from the Pre-Socratics through Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy, to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. While not promising a formula that can guarantee a greater share in happiness to the reader, the book addresses questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern to many people today: Do I have to be a morally good person in order to be happy? Are there purely external criteria for happiness such as success according to received social norms or is happiness merely a matter of an internal state of the person? How is happiness related to the stages of life and generally to time? In this book the reader will find an informed discussion of these and many other questions relating to happiness.

Greek Medicine in Rome

Author : Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Medicine in Rome written by Thomas Clifford Allbutt and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, Allbutt was a great literary stylist. He has been described by Underwood as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.

On Pyrrho and Time

Author : Jean-Paul Martinon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031676203
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book On Pyrrho and Time written by Jean-Paul Martinon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Samuel Beckett's 'Philosophy Notes'

Author : Steven Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198880952
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett's 'Philosophy Notes' written by Steven Matthews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner, Samuel Beckett, assembled for himself a history of western philosophy during the 1930s, just at the point at which his first novel, Murphy, was coming together. The 'Philosophy Notes', together with related notes taken at that time about St. Augustine, thereafter provided Beckett with a store of knowledge, but also with phrases and images, which he took up in the major work that won him international and enduring fame, from the dramas Waiting for Godot and Endgame, through to the late prose works Worstward Ho and Stirrings Still. This edition presents, for the first time, Beckett's full 'Philosophy Notes', which constitute his most extensive unpublished text. The Notes display Beckett's own interests and emphases within the history of western philosophy, from the pre-Socratic Greeks onwards, together with more familiar figures in the study of his work, such as Descartes, Leibnitz, and Geulincx. Here we see Beckett's original thoughts on all of these figures for the first time. The Notes also, tellingly and often comically, display Beckett's impatience with many aspects of philosophy, such as its anthropological or anthropomorphic bias, or the idealism of the Enlightenment and Kant. The Edition contains an extensive Introduction, outlining the origin of Beckett's Notes, his major sources and approach to them, the historical context for his view of philosophy, and the significance of Beckett's 'Philosophy Notes' within his mature writings. The many footnotes then suggest ways in which particular aspects of the philosophy narrated here by Beckett suggest fresh insights into those later writings—the images, but also the creative impulses, behind some of his most famous texts. This Edition, further, raises larger questions about, and perspectives upon, the relation between philosophy and literature in the twentieth century and beyond.

Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition

Author : Graham Speake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135942137
Total Pages : 2407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition written by Graham Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 2407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenism is the living culture of the Greek-speaking peoples and has a continuing history of more than 3,500 years. The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition contains approximately 900 entries devoted to people, places, periods, events, and themes, examining every aspect of that culture from the Bronze Age to the present day. The focus throughout is on the Greeks themselves, and the continuities within their own cultural tradition. Language and religion are perhaps the most obvious vehicles of continuity; but there have been many others--law, taxation, gardens, music, magic, education, shipping, and countless other elements have all played their part in maintaining this unique culture. Today, Greek arts have blossomed again; Greece has taken its place in the European Union; Greeks control a substantial proportion of the world's merchant marine; and Greek communities in the United States, Australia, and South Africa have carried the Hellenic tradition throughout the world. This is the first reference work to embrace all aspects of that tradition in every period of its existence.

Greek medicine in Rome

Author : Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek medicine in Rome written by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Reception

Author : Patrick Baker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110638770
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Reception written by Patrick Baker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as ‘transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.