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Greek Philosophy : Thales to Aristotle
by Reginald E. AllenEdition:
3rd
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9780029004951
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Pub. Date:
10/14/1991
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Summary
Widely praised for its accessibility and its concentration on the metaphysical issues that are most central to the history of Greek philosophy,Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotleoffers a valuable introduction to the works of the Presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle.For the Third Edition, Professor Allen has provided new translations of Socrates' speech in theSymposiumand of the first five chapters of Aristotle'sCategories,as well as new selections bearing on Aristotle'sTheory of Infinity, Continuity, and Discreteness.The book also contains a general introduction which sets forth Professor Allen's distinctive and now widely accepted interpretation of the development of Greek philosophy and science, along with selective bibliography, and lists of suggested readings.
Author Biography
Reginald E. Allen is professor of classics and philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of Plato's Parmenides: Translation and Analysis, Socrates and Legal Obligation, and Plato's Symposium.
Table of Contents
| Preface To The Third Edition | |
| Introduction | |
| Presocratic Philosophy | |
| The Sources | |
| The Milesians | |
| Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism | |
| Heraclitus | |
| The Eleatics | |
| The Pluralists Plato | |
| Euthyphro | |
| Apology | |
| Crito | |
| Meno | |
| The Speech of Socrates in the Symposium(in part) | |
| Phaedo(in part) | |
| Republic(in part) | |
| Phaedrus(in part) | |
| Parmenides(in part) | |
| Timaeus(in part) | |
| Categories(in part) | |
| On the Soul(in part) | |
| Metaphysics(in part) | |
| Nicomachean Ethics(in part) | |
| Politics(in part) | |
| Physics(in part) | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Excerpts
Chapter I
THE SOURCES
No work of the Presocratics has come down in its entirety. We possess fragments preserved by later authors, and testimony. The major sources are as follows:
A. Philosophers
(i) Plato gives useful information about his predecessors. Since he himself was not a historian of philosophy, his remarks must be treated with caution.
(ii) Aristotle surveyed his predecessors' testimony on the philosophical problems with which he himself was concerned. The Presocratics are thus made parties to his argument, not left to speak for themselves, and this often introduces a cast into his interpretation. Nevertheless, he was not without a sense of history, and his work is, and will remain a major source of knowledge.
(iii) The Stoics' method of interpretation was syncretistic: they undertook to show that their predecessors agreed with Stoic doctrine, and with each other.
(iv) Sceptics, such as Sextus Empiricus, were concerned to exhibit the contradictions of earlier philosophy, but preserved valuable fragments.
(v) The Neo-Platonists, especially Proclus, Alexander, and Simplicius, commented on Plato and Aristotle; with the library of the Academy at their disposal, they too preserved many fragments.
B. The Doxographical Tradition
Theophrastus, Aristotle's successor in the Lyceum, continued the Peripatetic interest in history. As part of the encyclopedia of knowledge projected by the school, Theophrastus wroteOn the Opinions of the Physical Philosophers,parts of which have come down to us. He consulted the original texts of the Presocratics, but his historical judgment was much influenced by Aristotle.
Theophrastus' work became the standard authority in the ancient world. The doxographers are those who derive their material, directly or indirectly, from theOpinions (doxai).The main sources in the doxographical tradition are Diogenes Laertius (probably third century A.D.), Plutarch (first-second century A.D.), and John Stobeaus (fifth century A.D.).
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