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  • Ancient Philosophy: The Fundamentals

  • Fundamentals of Philosophy Series
  • By: Daniel W. Graham
  • Narrated by: Tom Parks
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Ancient Philosophy: The Fundamentals

By: Daniel W. Graham
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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Part of the popular Fundamentals of Philosophy series, Ancient Philosophy is an ideal resource for beginning students as well as for advanced students wishing to hone their understanding of the philosophies of the ancient world.

Clear and engaging, this book covers a representative selection of major ancient thinkers, movements, and schools of thought, including the Sophists and other significant Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, the Stoics, the Skeptics, and early Judeo-Christian philosophy up to Augustine.

Written by a prominent scholar and author in ancient philosophy studies, this book:

  • Provides an overview of important issues in the study of the philosophies of the ancient world
  • Explores the relevance of the theories of ancient thinkers to the modern world
  • Charts the progression in the ancient world from worldviews based in mythology to systems of thought based on the analysis of evidence
  • Presents up-to-date scholarship as well as historical material from ancient sources
  • Assumes no prior knowledge of philosophy and examines all arguments carefully and sequentially
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After introducing each thinker or philosophical school, Dr. Graham reconstructs important arguments and then works through their strengths and weaknesses. While the content is backed by rigorous scholarship, Graham’s prose is easy to understand and he makes ancient philosophy accessible to anybody who might be interested. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good introduction to (or review of) the ancient philosophers and their ideas.

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