{"product_id":"critical-history-of-greek-philosophy-9781492708995","title":"Critical History Of Greek Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): W. T. Stace\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Religion and Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Critical History of Greek Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric, and aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand New Copy - New Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany philosophers today concede that Greek philosophy has influenced much of Western thought since its inception. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: \"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.\" Clear, unbroken lines of influence lead from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers to Early Islamic philosophy, the European Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome claim that Greek philosophy, in turn, was influenced by the older wisdom literature and mythological cosmogonies of the ancient Near East. Martin Litchfield West gives qualified assent to this view, stating, \"contact with oriental cosmology and theology helped to liberate the early Greek philosophers' imagination; it certainly gave them many suggestive ideas. But they taught themselves to reason. Philosophy as we understand it is a Greek creation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubsequent philosophic tradition was so influenced by Socrates (as presented by Plato) that it is conventional to refer to philosophy developed prior to Socrates as pre-Socratic philosophy. The periods following this until the wars of Alexander the Great are those of \"classical Greek\" and \"Hellenistic\" philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreek Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreek philosophy is not, even now, antiquated. It is not from the point of view of an antiquary or historian that its treasures are valuable. We are dealing here with living things, and not with mere dead things--not with the dry bones and debris of a bygone age. And I have tried to lecture and write for living people, and not for mere fossil-grubbers. If I did not believe that there is to be found here, in Greek philosophy, at least a measure of the truth, the truth that does not grow old, I would not waste five minutes of my life upon it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains the substance, and for the most part the words, of a course of public lectures delivered during the first three months of 1919. The original division into lectures has been dropped, the matter being more conveniently redivided into chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe audience to whom the lectures were delivered was composed of members of the general public, and not only of students. For the most part they possessed no previous knowledge of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHence this book, like the original lectures, assumes no previous special knowledge, though it assumes, of course, a state of general education in the reader. Technical philosophical terms are carefully explained when first introduced; and a special effort has been made to put philosophical ideas in the clearest way possible. But it must be remembered that many of the profoundest as well as the most difficult of human conceptions are to be found in Greek philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch ideas are difficult in themselves, however clearly expressed. No amount of explanation can ever render them anything but difficult to the unsophisticated mind, and anything in the nature of \"philosophy made easy\" is only to be expected from quacks and charlatans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45091200958615,"sku":"9781492708995","price":675.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/critical-history-of-greek-philosophy-9781492708995","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}