{"product_id":"a-history-of-ancient-philosophy-i","title":"A History Of Ancient Philosophy I By Reale, Giovanni","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecial attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the Sophists since he is one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocrates is given major prominence. Plato, Aristotle, and all of Hellenistic philosophy are deeply impregnated with his words and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are two appendices. The first concerns Orphism and contains a series of documents indispensable for the comprehension of some aspects of pre-Socratic and Platonic thought. The second explains the key to understanding the message of the Greeks-the message of \"theorein\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57581781680510,"sku":"NW9780887062902","price":25.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780887062902.jpg?v=1783338924","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/a-history-of-ancient-philosophy-i","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}