{"product_id":"history-of-ancient-philosophy-i","title":"History of Ancient Philosophy I","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the origins of Western philosophy, the profound creation of the Hellenic genius, Reale presents an appreciation of the Naturalists, the Sophists, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the Sophists since he is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocrates is given major prominence. Plato, Aristotle, and all of Hellenistic philosophy are deeply impregnated with his words and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are two appendices. The first concerns Orphism and contains a series of documents indispensable for the comprehension of some aspects of pre-Socratic and Platonic thought. The second explains the key to understanding the message of the Greeks-the message of \"theorein\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410203693400,"sku":"9780887062902","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780887062902_fd1139ee-8643-4d72-bd43-082a415a7743.jpg?v=1777895145","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/history-of-ancient-philosophy-i","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}