Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC and continued throughout the Hellenistic period and the period in which Ancient Greece was part of the Roman Empire. Philosophy was used to make sense out of the world in a non-religious way. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric and aesthetics. This two-volume edition gives a complete insight into Greek Philosophy from its beginnings until the occurrence of Christian philosophy and final extinction of pagan philosophy.
Contents:
Early Greek Thought
The Greek Humanists: Nature and Law
The Place of Socrates in Greek Philosophy
Plato; His Teachers and His Times
Plato as a Reformer
Characteristics of Aristotle
The Systematic Philosophy of Aristotle
The Stoics
Epicurus and Lucretius
The Sceptics and Eclectics: Greek Philosophy in Rome
The Religious Revival
The Spiritualism of Plotinus
Greek Philosophy and Modern Thought
About the author
Alfred William Benn was an agnostic and an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association. He is the author of The Greek Philosophers (2 vols); The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century (2 vols); and The History of Ancient and Modern Philosophy (2 vols).
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