Now in its sixth edition, this historically organized introductory text treats philosophy as a dramatic and continuous story--a conversation about humankind's deepest and most persistent concerns. Tracing the exchange of ideas among history's key philosophers, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Sixth Edition, demonstrates that while constructing an argumentor making a claim, one philosopher almost always has others in mind. INDICE: *=New to this edition; A Word to Instructors: ; A Word to Students: ; Acknowledgments: ; 1. Before Philosophy: Myth in Hesiod and Homer; Hesiod:War among the Gods; Homer: Heroes, Gods, and Excellence; 2. Philosophy beforeSocrates; Thales: The One as Water; Anaximander: The One as the Boundless; Xenophanes: The Gods as Fictions; Sketch: Pythagoras; Heraclitus: Oneness in theLogos ; * Profile: The Tao; Parmenides: Only the One; Zeno: The Paradoxes of Common Sense; Atomism: The One and the Many Reconciled; The Key: An Ambiguity:; The World: ; The Soul: ; How to Live: ; 3. The Sophists: Rhetoric and Relativism in Athens; Democracy; The Persian Wars; The Sophists; Rhetoric: ; Relativism: ; Physis and Nomos ; Athens and Sparta at War; Aristophanes and Reaction; 4. Socrates: To Know Oneself; Character; Is Socrates a Sophist?; What Socrates 'Knows'; We Ought to Search for Truth: ; Human Excellence Is Knowledge: ; All Wrongdoing Is Due to Ignorance: ; The Most Important Thing of All is to Care for Your Soul: ; 5. The Trial and Death of Socrates; Euthyphro: ; Translator's Introduction; The Dialogue; Commentary and Questions; Apology: ; Translator's Introduction; The Dialogue; Commentary and Questions; Crito: ; Translator'sIntroduction; The Dialogue; Commentary and Questions; Phaedo (Death Scene); Translator's Introduction; The Dialogue (Selection); Commentary and Questions; 6. Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good; Knowledge and Opinion; Making the Distinction: ; We Do Know Certain Truths: ; The Objects of Knowledge: ; The Reality of the Forms: ; The World and the Forms; How Forms Are Related to the World: ; Lower and Higher Forms: ; The Form of the Good: ; The Love of Wisdom; WhatWisdom Is: ; Love and Wisdom: ; The Soul; The Immortality of the Soul: ; The Structure of the Soul: ; Morality; The State; Problems with the Forms; 7. Aristotle: The Reality of the World; Aristotle and Plato; Otherworldliness: ; The Objects of Knowledge: ; Human Nature: ; Relativism and Skepticism: ; Ethics: ;Logic and Knowledge; Terms and Statements: ; Truth: ; Reasons Why: The Syllogism: ; Knowing First Principles: ; The World; Nature: ; The Four 'Becauses': ;Is There Purpose in Nature?: ; Teleology: ; First Philosophy; Not Plato's Forms: ; What of Mathematics?: ; Substance and Form: ; Pure Actualities: ; God: ;The Soul; Levels of Soul: ; Soul and Body: ; Nous: ; The Good Life; Happiness: ; Virtue or Excellence: ; The Role of Reason: ; Responsibility: ; The Highest Good: ; 8. Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics: Happiness for the Many; The Epicureans; The Stoics; The Skeptics; 9. The Christians: Sin, Salvation, and Love; Background; Jesus; The Meaning of Jesus; 10. Augustine: God and the Soul; Wisdom, Happiness, and God; The Interior Teacher; God and the World; The Great Chain of Being: ; Evil: ; Time: ; Human Nature and Its Corruption; Human Natureand Its Restoration; Augustine on Relativism; The Two Cities; Christians and Philosophers; Reason and Authority: ;
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539761-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
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- Idioma: Inglés