Author:
Gomperz, Theodor, 1832-1912.
Edition Statement:Authorized ed.
Imprint:Bristol, Eng. : Thoemmes Press, 1996.
Description2034 p., 4 v. ; 23 cm.
Note:Vol. 1 translated by Laurie Magnus, v.2-4 by G.G. Berry.
Note:Reprint of the 1905 authorized ed., London : J. Murray, 1901-1912
Note:v. 1. BOOK I. THE BEGINNINGS: Introduction -- Old Ionian nature-philosophers -- Orphic systems of cosmogony -- Pythagoras and his disciples -- The development of the Pythagorean doctrine -- Orphic and Pythagorean doctrines of the soul -- BOOK II. FROM METAPHYSICS TO POSITIVE SCIENCE: Xenophanes -- Parmenides -- The disciples of Parmenides -- Anaxagoras -- Empedocles -- The historians -- BOOK III: THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: The physicians -- The atomists -- The eclectic philosophers of nature -- The beginnings of mental and moral science -- The Sophists -- Protagoas of Abdera-- Gorgias of Leontini -- The advance of historical science.
Note:v. 2. BOOK IV. SOCRATES AND THE SOCRATICS: Changes in faith and morals -- Athens and the Athenians -- The life and work of Socrates -- The teaching of Socrates -- Socrates' end -- Xenophon -- The cynics -- The Megarians and kindred movements -- The Cyrenaics -- BOOK V. PLATO: Plato's years of study and travel -- The genuineness and chronological order of Plato's works -- Plato as an investigator of ethical concepts -- Plato's Gorgias -- Plato's Euthyphro and Meno -- Plato's Symposium.
Note:v. 3. BOOK V. PLATO (cont.): Plato's doctrine of the soul and of ideas -- Plato's Phaedrus -- The Phaedo and Plato's proofs of immortality -- Plato's Republic -- Plato's ethical, social, and political ideal -- Plato's second and third residences in Sicily -- Plato's Euthydemus and Parmenides -- The Theaetetus and the Cratylus -- The Sophist and the Statesmn -- Plato's Philebus -- The Timaeus and the Critias -- Plato's Laws -- Retrospects and anticipations.
Note:v. 4. BOOK VI. ARISTOTLE AND HIS SUCCESSORS: The old academy -- The life of Aristotle -- Aristotle, the man and the author -- Aristotle's categories -- Aristotle as logician and dialectician -- The Platonist and the Asclepiad -- The Aristotelian doctrine of the elements -- The principles of proof -- The Aristotelian ontology -- Of chance and necessity -- Aristotle as an investigator of nature (Inorganic nature ; The Systemmatist, the Comparative Anatomist, and Physiologist; Embryology) -- Aristotle's doctrine of the soul (The problem of will ; The doctrine of nous, or reason) -- Aristotle's theology -- Aristotle's astronomy -- Aristotle's ethics (Justice ; The intellectual virtues and weakness of will ; Friendship ; The last book ; The doctrine of pleasure) -- Aristotle's theory of the state (The preliminary study, The structure of the work, and the Introduction to it ; The question of slavery, Greeks and barbarians, Banausoi ; The conflict of forms of state ; Monarchy ; Political statistics ; Political dynamics ; Criticism of political ideals and ideal states ; The philosopher's political ideal ; Questions of reproducion and education) -- Aristotle's theory of art -- Aristotle and rhetoric (The emotions and types of character) -- Theophrastus of Eresus (Theophrastus as botanist ; The delineator of characters) -- Straton of Lampsacus.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
