17th century
18th century
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ancient greek philosophy
ancient history
ancient world
Author_Julia E. Annas
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common misconception
cultural anthropology
epicurean ideas
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greek and roman culture
hellenistic philosophy
linguistics
lucid prose
modern parallels
multivolume set
philosophy of mind
psychology and sociology
scientific period
stoic
Product details
- ISBN 9780520076594
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul--an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic philosophy of mind so lucidly and authoritatively that specialists and nonspecialists alike will find her book rewarding. In part, the Hellenistic epoch was a "scientific" period that broke with tradition in ways that have an affinity with the modern shift from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present day. Hellenistic philosophy of the soul, Annas argues, is in fact a philosophy of mind, especially in the treatment of such topics as perception, thought, and action.
Julia E. Annas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She is the author, with Jonathan Barnes, of The Modes of Scepticism (1985).
