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Author:   Peter Adamson (, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.702kg
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9780199674534

ISBN 10:   0199674531
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   26 June 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Early Greek Philosophy 1: Everything is Full of Gods: Thales 2: Infinity and Beyond: Anaximander and Anaximines 3: Created in Our Image: Xenophanes 4: The Man with the Golden Thigh: Pythagoras 5: Old Man River: Heraclitus 6: The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides 7: You Can't Get There From Here: the Eleatics 8: The Final Cut: The Atomists 9: Mind over mixture: Anaxagoras 10: All You Need is Love, and Five Other Things: Empedocles 11: Good Humor Men: the Hippocratic Corpus 12: Making the Weaker Argument the Stronger: The Sophists Socrates and Plato 13: Socrates Without Plato: The Portrayals of Aristophanes and Xenophon 14: Method Man: Plato's Socrates 15: In Dialogue: The Life and Writings of Plato 16: Know Thyself: Two Unloved Platonic Dialogues 17: Virtue Meets its Match: Plato's Gorgias 18: We Don't Need No Education: Plato's Meno 19: I Know, Because the Caged Bird Sings: Plato's Theaetetus 20: Famous Last Words: Plato's Phaedo 21: Soul and the City: Justice in Plato's Republic 22: Ain't No Sunshine: the Cave Allegory of Plato's Republic 23: Second Thoughts: Plato's Parmenides and the Forms 24: Untying the Not: Plato's Sophist 25: What's in a Name?: Plato's Cratylus 26: A Likely Story: Plato's Timaeus 27: Wings of Desire: Plato's Erotic Dialogues 28: Last Judgments: Plato, Poetry, and Myth Aristotle 29: Mr Know it All: Aristotle's Life and Works 30: The Philosopher's Toolkit: Aristotle's Logical Works 31: A Principled Stand: Aristotle's Epistemology 32: Down to Earth: Aristotle on Substance 33: Form and Function: Aristotle's Four Causes 34: Let's Get Physical: Aristotle's Natural Philosophy 35: Soul Power: Aristotle's De Anima 36: Classified Information: Aristotle's Biology 37: The Goldilocks Theory: Aristotle's Ethics 38: The Second Self: Aristotle on Pleasure and Friendship 39: God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God 40: Constitutional Conventions: Aristotle's Political Philosophy 41: Stage Directions: Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics 42: Anything You Can Do: Women and Ancient Philosophy 43: The Next Generation: The Followers of Plato and Aristotle Guide to Further Reading

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So far it seems that Professor Adamson succeeds in delivering a history without any gaps. He covers unfamiliar philosophers and unpopular texts by more famous philosophers... an engaging introduction with a borad scope. Minerva, Lucia Marchini [Adamson] sets out to achieve the impossible and does a great job of it ... it is ideal for the introducing readers ... to the delights and the fascination of Greek philosophy. Dr John Godwin, Classics for All

So far it seems that Professor Adamson succeeds in delivering a history without any gaps. He covers unfamiliar philosophers and unpopular texts by more famous philosophers... an engaging introduction with a borad scope. Minerva, Lucia Marchini

Peter Adamson's Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (2014) is nothing if not comprehensive. He uses forty-one chapters to tell the story of some three hundred years of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to heirs of Plato and Aristotle, such as Theophrastus and Speusippus. It is virtually inconceivable that one would desire a more thorough work. Adamson, the Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitat, Munchen [and new Philosophy Now columnist] serves up a smorgasbord: from the pre-Socratic Thales and Xenophanes, to Platos Gorgias and Republic; from Empedocles and the Sophists, to Aristotle's Rhetoric and Politics. Philosophy Now one of the most accomplished and ambitious ventures in publishing ... From the first volume onwards, a repeated refrain has been philosophers arguing that being a philosopher is the best choice in life. These books are so engaging, instructive and diverting it might almost make you believe that is true. The Scotsman So far it seems that Professor Adamson succeeds in delivering a history without any gaps. He covers unfamiliar philosophers and unpopular texts by more famous philosophers... an engaging introduction with a borad scope. Minerva, Lucia Marchini [Adamson] sets out to achieve the impossible and does a great job of it ... it is ideal for the introducing readers ... to the delights and the fascination of Greek philosophy. Dr John Godwin, Classics for All This book was written in the same lively style as the podcast and should appeal to both general readers and scholars of ancient philosophy ... Highly recommended. C. R. McCall, CHOICE

So far it seems that Professor Adamson succeeds in delivering a history without any gaps. He covers unfamiliar philosophers and unpopular texts by more famous philosophers... an engaging introduction with a borad scope. Minerva, Lucia Marchini [Adamson] sets out to achieve the impossible and does a great job of it ... it is ideal for the introducing readers ... to the delights and the fascination of Greek philosophy. Dr John Godwin, Classics for All This book was written in the same lively style as the podcast and should appeal to both general readers and scholars of ancient philosophy ... Highly recommended. C. R. McCall, CHOICE

Professor Adamsons genius lies in connecting the ancient world with our zeitgeist. Writers like Adamson are needed if bright students are to see the value of being philosophers. * Subhashis Chattopadhyay, Prabuddha Bharata * Peter Adamson's Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (2014) is nothing if not comprehensive. He uses forty-one chapters to tell the story of some three hundred years of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to heirs of Plato and Aristotle, such as Theophrastus and Speusippus. It is virtually inconceivable that one would desire a more thorough work. Adamson, the Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität, Munchen [and new Philosophy Now columnist] serves up a smorgasbord: from the pre-Socratic Thales and Xenophanes, to Platos Gorgias and Republic; from Empedocles and the Sophists, to Aristotle's Rhetoric and Politics. * Philosophy Now * one of the most accomplished and ambitious ventures in publishing ... From the first volume onwards, a repeated refrain has been philosophers arguing that being a philosopher is the best choice in life. These books are so engaging, instructive and diverting it might almost make you believe that is true. * The Scotsman * So far it seems that Professor Adamson succeeds in delivering a history without any gaps. He covers unfamiliar philosophers and unpopular texts by more famous philosophers... an engaging introduction with a borad scope. * Minerva, Lucia Marchini * [Adamson] sets out to achieve the impossible and does a great job of it ... it is ideal for the introducing readers ... to the delights and the fascination of Greek philosophy. * Dr John Godwin, Classics for All * This book was written in the same lively style as the podcast and should appeal to both general readers and scholars of ancient philosophy ... Highly recommended. * C. R. McCall, CHOICE *

Peter Adamson's Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (2014) is nothing if not comprehensive. He uses forty-one chapters to tell the story of some three hundred years of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to heirs of Plato and Aristotle, such as Theophrastus and Speusippus. It is virtually inconceivable that one would desire a more thorough work. Adamson, the Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitat, Munchen [and new Philosophy Now columnist] serves up a smorgasbord: from the pre-Socratic Thales and Xenophanes, to Platos Gorgias and Republic; from Empedocles and the Sophists, to Aristotle's Rhetoric and Politics. Philosophy Now So far it seems that Professor Adamson succeeds in delivering a history without any gaps. He covers unfamiliar philosophers and unpopular texts by more famous philosophers... an engaging introduction with a borad scope. Minerva, Lucia Marchini [Adamson] sets out to achieve the impossible and does a great job of it ... it is ideal for the introducing readers ... to the delights and the fascination of Greek philosophy. Dr John Godwin, Classics for All This book was written in the same lively style as the podcast and should appeal to both general readers and scholars of ancient philosophy ... Highly recommended. C. R. McCall, CHOICE

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Peter Adamson took his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and first worked at King's College London. In 2012 he moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy. He has published widely in ancient and medieval philosophy, especially on Neoplatonism and on philosophy in the Islamic world.

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