This concise, lively introduction to ancient Greek philosophy will help beginning students of both classical studies and philosophy get their bearings within an important yet complex array of names, schools, and ideas. The book illuminates the key period from the sixth to the third century BC, looking at the ideas that engaged the Greeks, in particular those of the Presocratics, the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the earliest Hellenistic philosophers. After chronologically mapping the main figures and their interconnections, "Introducing Greek Philosophy" focuses on themes especially relevant to philosophy today, including the origins of the universe and its mathematical structures; divine creation versus evolution and natural law; probability theory and the criteria for truth; political debates on democracy, citizen rights, and state obligations; and, finally ethics, happiness, and the best way to live.
- ISBN10 0520261488
- ISBN13 9780520261488
- Publish Date 29 September 2009 (first published 30 August 2009)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 8 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English