1st Edition

From the Beginning to Plato Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 1

Edited By C.C.W. Taylor Copyright 2003
528 Pages
by Routledge

528 Pages
by Routledge

528 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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

Biography

C. C. W. Taylor