Ancient Mediterranean philosophy an introduction
Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other traditions; traditions that are now largely neglected by philosophers and scholars. This book tells the s...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Bloomsbury history of philosophy. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35578154*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Beginnings
- Pre-historical speculations
- Mythos and logos
- Gods of the Greeks and others
- Nature and spirit confounded
- 2 Influence from outside
- Tales from the East
- Tales from the South
- Tales from the North
- Tales from the past
- 3 Inspired thinkers
- Seeking the unseen
- Sicilians and Italians
- Philosophers and Jews
- 4 Travellers and stay-at-homes
- Custom, dictat and advantage
- Protagoras and Socrates
- Purity and the practice of death
- 5 Divine Plato
- Reading the dialogues
- Forms
- Two worlds or one
- Politics
- 6 The Aristotelian synthesis
- 'The master of them that know'
- Slaves and citizens
- Post-Aristotelian centuries
- 7 Living the philosophical life
- Stoics and Cynics
- Hebrews and Zoroastrians
- Epicureans and Buddhists
- 8 Ordinary and supernatural lives
- Abstract virtues and the Romans
- Sons of God
- Divination and technology
- Philosophy and foolosophies
- 9 Late antiquity
- Fixed stars and planets, and an escape from Fate
- Classical and Magian culture
- The way we didn't take
- 10 An end and a beginning.
