The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work "Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.

About the author

Jacques Brunschwig was Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Emeritus, at Paris-Sorbonne University.Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd succeeded Moses Finley as Master of Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous works on the classical period, among them Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle; Greek Science after Aristotle; and Magic, Reason, and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science.

Summary

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Pellegrin
• Assisted by: Jacques Brunschwig (Editor), Brunschwig Jacques (Editor), Geoffrey E R Lloyd (Editor), Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd (Editor), Lloyd Geoffrey E. R. (Editor), Catherine Porter (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2003
• EAN: 9780674021556
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02155-6
• Weight: 463 g
• Illustrations: 2 maps
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Griechenland, History of Ideas, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History - General History, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500