{"product_id":"philosophic-classics-ancient-philosophy-volume-i-1","title":"Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis seventh edition of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophic Classics, Volume I: Ancient Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e includes essential writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers. In updating this edition, editor Forrest E. Baird has continued to follow the same criteria established by the late Walter Kaufmann when the Philosophic Classics series was first established: (1) to use complete works or, where more appropriate, complete sections of works (2) in clear translations (3) of texts central to the thinker’s philosophy or widely accepted as part of the \"canon.\" To make the works more accessible to students, most footnotes treating textual matters (variant readings, etc.) have been omitted and important Greek words have been transliterated and put in angle brackets. In addition, each thinker is introduced by a brief essay composed of three sections: (1) biographical (a glimpse of the life), (2) philosophical (a résumé of the philosopher’s thought), and (3) bibliographical (suggestions for further reading). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew to this seventh edition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanges in translations:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew translations of Plato’s \u003ci\u003eApology \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Phaedo\u003c\/i\u003e and Aristotle’s \u003ci\u003eNichomachean Ethics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePolitics\u003c\/i\u003e from the acclaimed Focus Philosophical Library Series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew translations of Plato’s \u003ci\u003eEuthyphro \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCrito.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew translations of Epicurus’s \u003ci\u003eLetter to Herodotus, Letter to Menoeceus, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePrincipal Doctrines.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew translation of the Parmenides fragments.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional material:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGorgias’s model oration, \u003ci\u003eEncomium on Helen\u003c\/i\u003e, which gives a defense of Helen of Troy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA selection from Plato’s \u003ci\u003eGorgias\u003c\/i\u003e on nature \u0026lt;\u003ci\u003ephysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eversus convention or law \u0026lt;\u003ci\u003enomos\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026gt;.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdditional material from the opening of Plato’s \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e to contextualize the dialogue.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdditional material from Plato’s \u003ci\u003eRepublic \u003c\/i\u003e(Book IX) on the tri-partite soul. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdditional material from Aristotle’s \u003ci\u003eMetaphysics \u003c\/i\u003e(Book IV, 1-4, 7) on the nature of being and the so-called \"three rules of thought.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA brief selection from Porphyry’s \u003ci\u003eLife of Plotinus\u003c\/i\u003e, giving a sense of the person.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpdated and reorganized bibliographies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo allow for all these changes, a section of Book V from Plato’s \u003ci\u003eRepublic \u003c\/i\u003ehas been dropped.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose who use this first volume in a one-term course in ancient philosophy will find more material here than can easily fit a normal semester. 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