THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS

J.H. Lesher is Professor of Classics and Philosophy of the University of Maryland USAThe texts selected represent a broad cross section of ancient Greek thinking on the nature of reality knowledge and moral virtueThe discussions of philosophical content assume no prior study of philosophyJ.H. Lesher is Professor of Classics and Philosophy of the University of Maryland USAThe Greek Philosophers represents an number of the most famous and influential ancient Greek philosophical texts along with notes on translation and philosophical content. The texts selected represent a broad cross section of ancient Greek thinking on the nature of reality knowledge and moral virtue. Among the selections are fragments of the writings of the preSocratic thinkers Anaximander Xenophanes Heraclitus Parmenides Empedocles Democritus and Anaxagoras: portions of Platos dialogues Crito Meno Symposium Republic and Timaeous and selections from Aristotles De Anima Metaphysics Nicomachean Ethics parts of Animals and Posterior Analytics. The notes on translation assume an elementary knowledge of ancient Greek (i.e. a familiarity with the basic vocabulary and syntax of Attic Greek) but the discussions of philosophical content assume no prior study of philosophy. Students will work through each of the books sixteen chapters and acquire a detailed understanding of some of the most fascinating and seminal texts that have come to us from antiquity.Presents a collection of the influential Greek philosophical texts with full notes on the translation and the philosophical contentPreface Acknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Presocratic Philosophers1. Thales Anaximander and Anaximenes: The First Philosophers 2. Xenophanes: God Nature and Knowledge 3. Heraclitus: Universal Flux the Logos and Knowledge 4. Parmenides: On What There Is 5. Empedocles and Democritus: Eleatic Pluralism 6. Anaxagoras: The Mind That Rules the Cosmos Part II Socrates and Plato 7. Crito 50e25lc5 54d2e2: The Laws Demand Socrates Obedience 8. Meno 7lel72dl: Socrates and Meno Seek to Define Virtue 9. Symposium 210el2lle3: The Ascent to Beauty Itself 10. Republic 443b7444e2: Justice as Psychic Harmony 11. Tlmaeus 51 b7 52b5: Are the Objects of Sense the Only Realities? Part III Aristotle 12. Parts of Animals I 5: A Defence of the Study of Nature 13. Nicomachean Ethics I 7: On Happiness: the Ergon Argument I14. De Anima III 45: How the Mind Knows and Thinks 15. Posterior Analytics II 19: How First Principles Are Known 16. Metaphysics XII 67: The Case for an Unmoved MoverThis study presents a collection of the influential Greek philosophical texts which provide a broad crosssection of ancient Greek thought. Full notes on the translation and the philosophical content are provided.