From the Beginning to Plato

Volume 1 of the Routledge History of Philosophy covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought. The essays present the fundamental approaches and thinkers of Greek philosophy in chronological order.

This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC.

Autorentext

C. C. W. Taylor

Zusammenfassung
Volume 1 of the Routledge History of Philosophy covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought. The essays present the fundamental approaches and thinkers of Greek philosophy in chronological order.

Inhalt
Chapters:1. The Polis and its culture2. The Ionians3. Heraclitus4. Pythagoreans and Eleatics5. Empedocles6. Anaxagoras and the atomists7. The Sophists8. Greek arithmetic, geometry and harmonics: Thales to Plato9. Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy10. Plato: metaphysics and epistemology11. Plato: ethics and politics12. Plato: aesthetics and psychology