{"product_id":"a-history-of-ancient-philosophy-i-from-the-origins-to-socrates-9780887062902","title":"A History of Ancient Philosophy I: From the Origins to Socrates","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Giovanni Reale | John R. Catan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the origins of Western philosophy, the profound creation of the Hellenic genius, Reale presents an appreciation of the Naturalists, the Sophists, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the Sophists since he is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocrates is given major prominence. Plato, Aristotle, and all of Hellenistic philosophy are deeply impregnated with his words and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are two appendices. The first concerns Orphism and contains a series of documents indispensable for the comprehension of some aspects of pre-Socratic and Platonic thought. The second explains the key to understanding the message of the Greeks-the message of \"theorein\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615255085207,"sku":"9780887062902","price":3166.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780887062902.webp?v=1775099232","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-history-of-ancient-philosophy-i-from-the-origins-to-socrates-9780887062902","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}