This is a survey of Stoic and Epicurian ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic philosophy of mind. In part, the Hellenistic epoch was a "scientific" period that broke with tradition in ways that have an affinity with the modern shift from the 17th and 18th centuries to the present day. Hellenistic philosophy of the soul, Annas argues, is in fact a philosophy of mind, especially in the treatment of such topics as perception, thought and action.
- ISBN10 0520075544
- ISBN13 9780520075542
- Publish Date 1 February 1992
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 12 June 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 255
- Language English