Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 428 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780191043895
Series Statement:
A History of Philosophy Ser
Content:
Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca,Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth loo ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198728023
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Adamson, Peter, 1972 - A history of philosophy without any gaps ; volume 2: Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780198728023
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Vorsokratiker
;
Socrates v469-v399
;
Plato v427-v347
;
Aristoteles v384-v322
Author information:
Adamson, Peter 1972-
