Greek Thought and the Origins of the Scientific Spirit

by Leon Robin

Overview

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up-to-date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings, or as individual volumes:
* Prehistory and Historical Ethnography
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* Greek Civilization
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* Roman Civilization
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* Eastern Civilizations
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* Judaeo-Christian Civilization
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* European Civilization
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136196782
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Leon Robin

Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Subject and Divisions; II: Sources; One: Origins; I: Beginnings of Moral Reflection; II: Beginnings of a Systematic Representation of the Universe. Theogonies and Cosmogonies. Influence of the East; Two: Science and Philosophy; I: The School of Miletos; II: Science as the Instrument of Moral Purification. Pythagoreanism and the Italian School; III: The Philosophy of Becoming. Heracleitos of Ephesos; IV: The Philosophy of Being. The Eleatics; V: Alternation of the One and the Many. Empedocles of Acragas; VI: Atomistic Mechanism. The School of Abdera. Leucippos and Democritos; VII: The Mechanism of Quality and Mind. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae; Three: Human Culture; I: Eclectics and Sophists; II: Socrates; III: The Spread of the Socratic Spirit; IV: First Part—Plato; Three: Second Part—The Old Academy; V: First Part—Aristotle; Three: Second Part: The Immediate Disciples of Aristotle; Four: Man in the Universe. the Ideal of The Wise Man; I: Scepticism; II: Epicureanism; III: Early Stoicism; IV: The New Academy; Five: The Decline of Greek Thought; I: Scientific Specialization. Eclecticism. Revivals; II: Plotinus and the End of Neo-Platonism; Conclusion