Progress of philosophical thinking among the Greeks, leading to a dual climax in the work of Plato and Aristotle, demanding a synthesis by the Neo-Platonists.
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History of Philosophy, vol 1,
By Burt Hemingway "Bookmeister" (Princeton, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of Philosophy, Volume I: Greece and Rome (Hardcover)
Amazon advertizes and depicts this book with a dust cover. The book arrived without the dustcover, which for a bibliophile is akin to a painting sold without the frame...or something like that. Anyway, Coppleston's 15 volume tome has been regarded and accepted as the (definitive) discourse on the History of Western 'thought' since the late 1940's, and a re-reading of Vol. 1 (after nearly 30 years) has done nothing to diminish my sense of its stature or worth. The History is not 'easy' reading, but IS worth every minute of the time you can devote to it, especially in a world that seems to treat THINKING as passe.
The only reason I reserved the fifth star is I'm still ticked about the missing dust cover.
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One of the best,
By David Withun (FORT GORDON, GA, US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of Philosophy, Volume I: Greece and Rome (Hardcover)
One of the best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy out there. My only two complaints about it are: 1. Like many texts published a half century or longer ago Coplestone consistently leaves Greek and Latin phrases that he quotes (even at some considerable length) untranslated. For modern readers like myself, this only serves as a reminder of how far downhill our educational standards have gone -- we don't know ancient Greek and/or Latin anymore! 2. Coplestone's choice of verbiage is often far more dense and complicated than it has to be. I've never seen such a difficult explanation of Plato's theory of the Forms. Those two criticisms aside, the book is a great over all and well laid out in its presentation. I read this alongside the opening chapters of Bertrand Russell's much lengthier "History of Western Philosophy" and the combination of the two, I think, served me well as I was able to receive the same information from two very different perspectives. Great learning experience!
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preparatio evangelica, exemplary causes, specific essence, intermediary beings, spatial magnitudes, active intellect, immanent form, sensible particulars, unchanging being, mediaeval philosophy, local separation, transcendental foundation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Idea of the Good, Middle Platonism, Thomas Aquinas, Middle Ages, Unmoved Mover, Marcus Aurelius, Professor Taylor, Athenian Constitution, Nicomachean Ethics, Professor Stace, Aristotelian God, Peripatetic School, Roman Empire, Stoic School, Asia Minor, Divine Mind, Fine Art, Julius Stenzel, Laws Plato, Platonic School, Professor Zeller, Sextus Empiricus, Andronicus of Rhodes, Antiochus of Ascalon, Apollonius of Tyana New!
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I. WE would scarcely call anyone "educated" who had no knowledge whatsoever of history; we all recognise that a man should know something of the history of his own country, its political, social and economic development, its literary and artistic achievementspreferably indeed in the wider setting of European and, to a certain extent, even World history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
preparatio evangelica, exemplary causes, specific essence, intermediary beings, spatial magnitudes, active intellect, immanent form, sensible particulars, unchanging being, mediaeval philosophy, local separation, transcendental foundation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Idea of the Good, Middle Platonism, Thomas Aquinas, Middle Ages, Unmoved Mover, Marcus Aurelius, Professor Taylor, Athenian Constitution, Nicomachean Ethics, Professor Stace, Aristotelian God, Peripatetic School, Roman Empire, Stoic School, Asia Minor, Divine Mind, Fine Art, Julius Stenzel, Laws Plato, Platonic School, Professor Zeller, Sextus Empiricus, Andronicus of Rhodes, Antiochus of Ascalon, Apollonius of Tyana New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 6 pages
- Eudemian Ethics: Books I, II, and VIII (Clarendon Aristotle) (Bks.1, 2 & 8) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Magna Moralia (Spanish Edition) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Prior Analytics by Aristotle on 4 pages
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