The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067402155X ISBN 13: 9780674021556

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Review:

"Greek Thought...has been compiled to capture the sheer intellectual exhilaration of Greek thought--to introduce its readers to that certain intensity of life among the Greeks which flourished because of their way of thinking about the world, and to suggest that this way of life should be no more confined to the study now than it was then."

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 067402155X
• ISBN 13: 9780674021556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Brunschwig Jacques, Lloyd Geoffrey E. R.