Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Eight new studies on one of the most challenging of Plato's works involving, in mythical form, his views on cosmology, and on the human body and soul. The philosopher's contribution to mathematics and his conception of 'God' are discussed in detail in a book that restores to its proper place a problematic dialogue often dismissed by scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything...read more

Product Description: Empedocles (c. 494-434 B.C.) achieved legendary status as a philosopher, scientist, healer, poet and orator. He made important contributions to the developments of European thought with his theory of the four elements, his detailed work on perception, respiration and cognition, and his understanding in the kinship in structure and form of the hierarchy of living creatures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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