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  | | The A to Z of Ancient Greek Philosophy (The A to Z Guide Series) by Anthony Preus Paperback, 374 Pages, Published 2010 by Scarecrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-7585-2, ISBN: 0-8108-7585-3 "The ancient Greeks were not only the founders of western philosophy, but the actual term "philosophy" is Greek in origin, most likely dating back to the late sixth century BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Thales are but a few of the better-known philosophers of ancient Greece. During the amazingly fertile period running from roughly the middle of the first millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium AD, th ..." |
 | | Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy(2nd Edition) (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series) by Anthony Preus Hardcover, 540 Pages, Published 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4638-6, ISBN: 1-4422-4638-3 "The ancient Greeks were not only the founders of western philosophy, but the actual term "philosophy" is Greek in origin, most likely dating back to the late sixth century BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Thales are but a few of the better-known philosophers of ancient Greece. During the amazingly fertile period running from roughly the middle of the first millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium AD, th ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy III Plato (v. 3) by John Peter Anton, Anthony Preus Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 1989 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88706-917-8, ISBN: 0-88706-917-7 "The Plato who emerges from these essays is the seminal thinker, the profound philosopher, the master of dialectic who offers, together with his insights into reality and human values, a systematically developed set of powerful devices for the articulation and defence of his ideas. In each case the discussion unfolds not as advocacy of Platonic doctrines but as critical assessment of argument, and is meant as judicious explication of the ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI Before Plato by Anthony Preus Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2001 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-4956-1, ISBN: 0-7914-4956-4 "An anthology devoted to the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato.This collection of essays on early Greek philosophy focuses on the natural and moral philosophy and the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato. Studies of the philosophies of Anaximander, Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, the Pythagoreans, Atomists, and Sophists are included.These essays explore many of the liveliest topics in ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy V(1st Edition) Aristotle's Ontology by Anthony Preus, John Peter Anton, George L. Kustas Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1992 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-1027-1, ISBN: 0-7914-1027-7 "2 In view of the fundamental (for the pure Platonists) distinction between the intelligible and the sensible worlds, Plotinus's charge means that Aristotle erred in directing his inquiries towards the latter to the neglect of the former which, nevertheless, comprises "the most important beings."3 Since Aristotle's categories fail to function as 'genera of Being," in Plotinus's view they lose to Plato's ui-vicrTa 7evt] presented in ..." |
 | | Notes on Greek philosophy From Thales to Aristotle (Studies on Ancient Greek and Islamic Philosophy) by Anthony Preus Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 1997 by Global Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-883058-09-8, ISBN: 1-883058-09-0 "This volume has been prepared for the use of students in, and teachers of, ancient Greek Philosophy. These notes are a peculiar hybrid of two sorts of materials: a) information about Greek words, bibliography and cross-references; and b) lecture notes, i.e. mnemonic devices used to ensure that major themes and key concepts are covered in class. In a few cases, the notes include a translation of a passage that is essential to the course. ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy V Aristotle's Ontology by Anthony Preus, John P. Anton, John Peter Anton Paperback, 374 Pages, Published 1992 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-1028-8, ISBN: 0-7914-1028-5 "Book by" |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV Aristotle's Ethics by John Peter Anton, Anthony Preus, George L. Kustas, Eds Anthony Preus, Anton Et Al. Hardcover, 284 Pages, Published 1991 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-0654-0, ISBN: 0-7914-0654-7 "Arthur Madigan, S.J. In his Essai sur la morale d'Aristote of 1881, Leon Olle- Laprune devoted a chapter to establishing the thesis that Aristotle's rational eudaimon- ism does not do away with but rather affirms the disinterestedness that is the essence and the foundation of virtue.1 Sir David Ross, on the other hand, while believing that Aristotle was trying to break down the antithesis between egoism and altruism, held that he fa ..." |
 | | Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series) by Anthony Preus Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2007 by Scarecrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5487-1, ISBN: 0-8108-5487-2 "The ancient Greeks were not only the founders of western philosophy, but the actual term "philosophy" is Greek in origin, most likely dating back to the late sixth century BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Thales are but a few of the better-known philosophers of ancient Greece. During the amazingly fertile period running from roughly the middle of the first millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium AD, th ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, III Plato (Vol 3) by John Peter Anton, Anthony Preus Hardcover, 358 Pages, Published 1989 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88706-916-1, ISBN: 0-88706-916-9 "The Plato who emerges from these essays is the seminal thinker, the profound philosopher, the master of dialectic who offers, together with his insights into reality and human values, a systematically developed set of powerful devices for the articulation and defence of his ideas. In each case the discussion unfolds not as advocacy of Platonic doctrines but as critical assessment of argument, and is meant as judicious explication of the ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI Before Plato by Anthony Preus, John Peter Anton, George L. Kustas Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-4955-4, ISBN: 0-7914-4955-6 "Carol Steinberg Gould is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. She presented an earlier version of “Moral Dilemmas and Integrity in Sophocles' Philoctetes” at the meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy in Binghamton, NY, in 1995. The essay is published here for the first time. Carl Huffman is Professor of Classics at DePauw University. He presented an earlier version of “The Philolaic Method ..." |
 | | The Greeks and the Environment by Thomas M. Robinson, Laura Westra, Contributor-M Oelschlaeger, Contributor-Mohan Matten, Contributor-Anthony Preus, Contributor-Richard Shearman, Contributor-Owen Goldin, Contributor-Alan Holland, Madonna R. Adams, Donald N. Blakeley, C. W. Demarco, Timothy A. Mahoney, J. M. Rist, Daryl Mcgowan Tress, Professor Alan Holland Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-8476-8445-8, ISBN: 0-8476-8445-8 "Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus. Recognizing that these thinkers were not ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV Aristotle's Ethics (Aristotle's Ethics, V.4) by John Peter Anton, Anthony Preus Paperback, 302 Pages, Published 1991 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-0655-7, ISBN: 0-7914-0655-5 |
 | | Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus 540 Pages, Published 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4639-3, ISBN: 1-4422-4639-1 "For certain periods, especially the early Hellenistic period, this is the best general history source available. ... whatever source he happens to be using at the moment, though he tends to throw in a bit of his own rather bad poetry from time to time. ... would say, is not too bad; he probably had some decent general introduction to go on, something like Alcinous, for example. ... Another test of his reliability is to compare what ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI Before Plato by Anthony Preus 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-9062-4, ISBN: 0-7914-9062-9 "... One of the most received of opinions among historians of philosophy has long been that Parmenides, Zeno, and Melissus denied motion, that is to say, claimed to have shown that motion, and indeed all change, variegation, and particularity, ..." |
 | | Aristotle on Africa (Research Papers on the Humanities and Social Sciences) by Anthony Preus Paperback, 29 Pages, Published 1992 by Institute Of Global Cultural Studies Of Binghamton University ISBN-13: 978-0-9633277-8-9, ISBN: 0-9633277-8-X "The recent popular interest in Martin Bernal's Black Athena has called renewed attention to G.R.G James, Stolen Legacy (1954), a classic source of the argument that ancient Greek philosophy was stolen from the Egyptians. I have elsewhere [1] discussed the James thesis concerning the presocratics and Plato; in this paper I will examine his thesis that the philosophy of Aristotle in particular derives from Egypt." |
 | | Greek Philosophy Egyptian Origins by Anthony Preus Paperback, 27 Pages, Published 1992 by Global Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-9633277-6-5, ISBN: 0-9633277-6-3 "Recently attention has been drawn again to the thesis that classical Greek civilization owed a great deal to Egyptian civilization. The first two volumes (1987, 1991) of Martin Bernal's projected four-volume study, Black Athena, have strongly supported the thesis, but earlier scholarship has also gotten renewed attention. One of the more provocative books, for an historian of philosophy at least, is Stolen Legacy: The Greeks were not th ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV Aristotle's Ethics by John P. Anton, Anthony Preus 284 Pages, Published 1991 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-9505-6, ISBN: 0-7914-9505-1 "Aristotle's Ethics John P. Anton, Anthony Preus ... States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except ... Papers originally presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. ... [without special title]-—v. 3. Plato—v. 4. Aristotle's ethics. 1. Philosophy. Ancient—Congresses. l. Anton. John Peter. ... 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 l CONTENTS Intr ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy III Plato by John P. Anton, Anthony Preus 358 Pages, Published 1989 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-9504-9, ISBN: 0-7914-9504-3 "I propose to argue that the craft argument is not an analogy at all but is an expression of Plato's conviction that knowledge is virtue and is connected to a set of deeper convictions which Plato held when he wrote the Republic and which, ..." |
 | | Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II by John Peter Anton, Anthony Preus 541 Pages, Published 1984 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-9503-2, ISBN: 0-7914-9503-5 "These propositions betray a serious involvement by the atomists with the physical and philosophical implications of their doctrines on matter and the void. ... of ancient philosophy from Parmenides through Aristotle, and they reveal a degree of philosophical intelligence behind ancient atomism that makes it a stimulating subject for investigation. At the same time they raise new problems, inconsistencies, and paradoxes which demand ..." |
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