Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge Brunschwig, Jacques(著/文) - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Greek thought : a guide to classical knowledge
- 初版年月日
- 2000年1月
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- 2016年3月14日
- 最終更新日
- 2016年3月14日
紹介
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 60 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. Calling attention to the characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs. In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of knowledge, major thinkers and schools of thought, this work shows us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms of understanding life, language, production and action. The authors evoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches, but their rhetoric.
Essays that survey political, scientific and philosophical ideas, such as those on Utopia and the Critique of Politics, Observation and Research, and Ethics; others on specific fields from Astronomy and History to Mathematics and Medicine; new perspectives on major figures, from Anaxogorus to Zeno of Elea; studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek civilization - and that Aristotle considered a natural and universal trait of humankind. With 32 pages of colour illusrations, this work conveys the splendour and vitality of the Greek intellectual adventure.
目次
Translators' Note Introduction: On Home Ground in a Distant Land Maps 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 Chronology Contributors Illustration Sources Index
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