Socratic Perplexity and the Nature of Philosophy by Gareth B. Matthews

Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge: 3 (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind)

This ebook bargains the 1st synoptic research of the way the first components in wisdom constructions have been analysed in antiquity from Plato to past due historical commentaries. It argues that, within the Platonic-Aristotelian culture, the query of beginning issues used to be handled from certain issues of view: as a question of ways we collect uncomplicated wisdom; and as a question of the premises we might instantly settle for within the line of argumentation.

Classical Christianity and the Political Order: Reflections on the Theologico-Political Problem (Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays)

In quantity of Ernest Fortin: amassed Essays, Fortin bargains with the connection among faith and civil society in a Christian context: that of an primarily nonpolitical yet on no account fullyyt otherwordly faith, lots of whose teachings have been regarded as essentially at odds with the tasks of citizenship.

Antisthenes of Athens: Texts, Translations, and Commentary

Antisthenes of Athens (c. 445-365 BCE) was once a well-known historic disciple of Socrates, senior to Plato via fifteen years and inspirational to Xenophon. he's suitable to 2 of the best turning issues in historic highbrow heritage, from pre-Socraticism to Socraticism, and from classical Athens to the Hellenistic interval.

Diagoras of Melos: A Contribution to the History of Ancient Atheism (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde)

Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, fifth c. B. C. ) has acquired precise cognizance for your time now simply because he used to be considered as an intensive atheist and the writer of a prose paintings on atheism in antiquity. He was once infamous for revealing and ridiculing the Eleusinian Mysteries and was once condemned for impiety at Athens.