A History of Ancient Philosophy I: From the Origins to Socrates

by Giovanni Reale and John R. Catan

Beginning with the origins of Western philosophy, the profound creation of the Hellenic genius, Reale presents an appreciation of the Naturalists, the Sophists, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics. Special attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. Interpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088706292X
• ISBN13: 9780887062926
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.