Greek thought: a guide to classical knowledge

by Brunschwig, Jacques Lloyd, G. E. R., (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) Pellegrin, Pierre

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"Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought -- investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.…

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Full title :Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge / edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Geoffrey E.R. Lloyd, with the collaboration of Pierre Pellegrin ; translated under the direction of Catherine Porter.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 1024 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:067400261X, 9780674002616
oclc:ocm43859429
LC Classification:DF78
Dewey Decimal:938

Philosophy. The philosopher ; Images of the world ; Myth and knowledge ; The question of being ; Epistemology ; Ethics -- Politics. The statesman as political actor ; Inventing politics ; Utopia and the critique of politics ; The sage and politics -- The pursuit of knowledge. Schools and sites of learning ; Observation and research ; Demonstration and the idea of science ; Astronomy ; Cosmology ; Geography ; Harmonics ; History ; Language ; Logic ; Mathematics ; Medicine ; Physics ; Poetics ; Rhetoric ; Technology ; Theology and divination ; Theories of religion -- Major figures. Anaxagoras ; Antisthenes ; Archimedes ; Aristotle ; Democritus ; Epicurus ; Euclid ; Galen ; Heraclitus ; Herodotus ; Hippocrates ; Parmenides ; Plato ; Plotinus ; Plutarch ; Polybius ; Protagoras ; Ptolemy ; Pyrrhon ; Socrates ; Thucydides ; Xenophon ; Zeno -- Currents of thought. The academy ; Aristotelianism ; Cynicism ; Hellenism and Christianity ; Hellenism and Judaism ; The Milesians ; Platonism ; Pythagoreanism ; Skepticism ; Sophists ; Stoicism.

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Athènes (Grèce) -- Vie intellectuelle Biographies Biography Geistesgeschichte Grèce -- Civilisation Grèce -- Politique et gouvernement Grèce -- Politique et gouvernement -- J… Grèce -- Vie intellectuelle Grèce -- Vie intellectuelle -- Jusqu'à … GrÉcia Antiga (HistÓria) Greece Greece -- Civilization Greece -- Intellectual life Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B… Greece -- Politics and government Greece -- Politics and government -- To… Griechenland Griechenland (Altertum) Griekse oudheid Ideeëngeschiedenis