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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811335203321

Autore

Clark Stephen R. L

Titolo

Ancient Mediterranean philosophy : an introduction / / Stephen R.L. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury, 2012

ISBN

1-4411-4754-3

1-283-85326-4

1-4411-4886-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 245 p. : map

Collana

Bloomsbury history of philosophy

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Chapter 1 Beginnings -- Pre-historical speculations -- Mythos and logos -- Gods of the greeks and others -- Nature and spirit confounded -- Chapter 2 Influence from outside -- Tales from the east -- Tales from the south -- Tales from the north -- Tales from the past -- Chapter 3 Inspired thinkers -- Seeking the unseen -- Sicilians and italians -- Philosophers and Jews -- Chapter 4 Travellers and  stay-at-homes -- Custom, dictat and advantage -- Protagoras and socrates -- Purity and the practice of death -- Chapter 5 Divine Plato -- Reading the dialogues -- Forms -- Two worlds or one -- Politics -- Chapter 6 The Aristotelian synthesis -- 'The master of them that know' -- Slaves and citizens -- Post-aristotelian centuries -- Chapter 7 Living the philosophical life -- Stoics and Cynics -- Hebrews and Zoroastrians -- Epicureans and Buddhists -- Chapter 8 Ordinary and  supernatural lives -- Abstract virtues and the romans -- Sons of god -- Divination and technology -- Philosophy and foolosophies -- Chapter 9 Late antiquity -- Fixed stars and planets,  and an escape from fate -- Classical and magian culture -- The way we didn't take -- Chapter 10 An end and a beginning -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Recommended reading -- Works Cited -- Ancient



sources -- Modern literature -- Index.