Ancient Philosophy : Essential Readings with Commentary
Ancient Philosophy : Essential Readings with Commentary
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Author(s): Gerson, Lloyd P.
Smith, Nicholas
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Year: 200804
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Acknowledgements Chronology Maps Introduction I: Presocratics and Sophists 1. The Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes 2. Pythagoras, Philolaus, Xenophanes, and Heraclitus 3. The Eleatics: Parmenides, and Zeno of Elea 4. The Pluralists: Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus 5. Four Sophists: Protagoras, Antiphon , Gorgias, and Critias II: Xenophon 6. Memorabilia of Socrates (1.4; 4.


3; trans. Benjamin) II: Plato 7. Euthyphro (trans. Brickhouse and Smith) 8. Apology (trans. Brickhouse and Smith) 9. Crito (trans. Brickhouse and Smith) 10.


Meno (77b-78d; 80d-86b, trans. R. E. Allen, Yale University Press, 1984) 11. Phaedo (63e-69e; 72e-77d, 102a-107d, trans. David Gallop); 116a-118a, trans. Brickhouse and Smith) 12. Symposium (201d-212c, trans.


R. E. Allen, Yale University Press, 1991) 13. Republic (Book II, 358e-362c, 368c-379c; III, 412b-417b; IV, 427e-445e; V, 473c-480a; VI, 502c-511e; VII, 514a-521c, trans. Allan Bloom, Basic Books, 1968) 14. Parmenides (127b-135d, trans. Allen, R. E.


, Plato's Parmenides (Yale University Press, 1997). 15. Timaeus (27c-35a; 51e-52c, trans. F. M. Cornford, Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato Translated with a Running Commentary (Humanities Press [Routledge], 1937) IV: Aristotle 16. Categories (Chapters 1-5; trans. Apostle and Gerson) 17.


on Interpretation (Chapter 9; trans. Apostle and Gerson) 18. Physics (Book II; trans. Apostle and Gerson) 19. on the Soul (Book I, ch. 1; II, chs. 1-4 [415b28] trans. Apostle and Gerson) 20.


Metaphysics (Book I, chs. 1-3, 6, 9; Book II, ch. 1; Book III, ch. 1-2; Book IV, ch. 1-3; Book V; Book VI, ch. 1-2; Book VII, ch. 1-3; Book XII, ch. 6-10, trans.


Apostle and Gerson) 21. Nicomachean Ethics (Books I, chs. 1-7; II, chs. 1-2 and 5-7; Book X, chs. 6-10) trans. Apostle and Gerson) 22. Politics (Books I, chs. 1-2, II, chs.


1-5; and III, chs. 6-8; trans. Apostle and Gerson) V: Diogenes the Cynic 23. Diogenes Laertius, "Life of Diogenes" selections, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, trans. C. D. Yonge (http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dldiogenes.


htm) VI: Epicureans 24. Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus (selections; trans. A. A. Long and D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol.1 Cambridge University Press, 1987); Letter to Menoeceus, Principle Doctrines (trans.


Jason Saunders, Greek and Roman Philosophy after Aristotle, Free Press [Macmillan], 1966) 25. Lucretius, on the Nature of Things (Book 1, ll. 50-482; Book II, ll. 1-79; Book III, ll. 1-93; 396-424; 830-1094, trans. Walter G. Englert, Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2003) VII: Stoics 26. Diogenes Laertius and Cicero (selected fragments from J.


von Arnim, Stoicorum veterum fragmenta trans. Jason Saunders op. cit.) 27. Epictetus, Manual (trans. P. E. Matheson, Oxford University Press [photocopied from Saunders, op.


cit.]) VIII: Skeptics 28. Pyrrhonism (from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Famous Philosophers, Life of Pyrrho 9.74-108, selections; trans. Yonge op. cit.) 29. Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism I (selections, trans.


Long and Sedley) 30. Sextus Empiricus, Against the Professors VII and IX (selections, trans. Long and Sedley) IX: Neo-Platonists 31. Plotinus, Enneads (I.6; IV.8, V.1, VI.9; trans.


Elmer O'Brien, The Essential Plotinus, New American Library, New York, 1964) 32. Proclus, on the Nature of Evil (1-5; 8-9; 33; 36-7; 51, trans. Jan Opsomer, Carlos Steel, Proclus, on the Existence of Evils. The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle. Cornell University Press, 2003. Bibliography.


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