| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
ix, 468 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-456) and index. |
| Contents |
The archetypes : the Milesians -- The harmony of the world : the Pythagoreans -- The man who searched for himself : Heraclitus -- The truth about nothing : Parmenides -- The ways of paradox : Zeno -- Love and strife : Empedocles -- Mind and matter : Anaxagoras -- He who laughs last : Democritus -- Opening Pandora's box : the Sophists -- Philosophy's martyr : Socrates and the Socratics -- The republic of reason : Plato -- The master of those who know : Aristotle -- Three roads to tranquillity : Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics -- The haven of piety : from late antiquity to the Renaissance. |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy. |
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History. |
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Philosophie -- Histoire. |
| ISBN |
0393049515 |
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