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Philosophic classics, v.1: ancient philosophy

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The volume begins with brief selections from the pre-Socratics: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Gorgias, and others. Far more space is devoted to Plato and Aristotle. (Plato especially receives a significant amount of space. His work is anthologized over almost 250 pages of text, which means that close to half of this volume is devoted to his writings.) The last part of this volume is devoted to briefer selections from Epicurus, the early Stoics, Epictetus, Leucretius, Marcus Aurelius, Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, and Plotinus.
Baird and Kaufmann provide some brief but relatively useful introductions to the various philosophers. If I had a criticism to make of this volume it would be that the editorial introductions are a little bit too brief and do not always give an adequate description of the thought of the various philosophers whose writings are contained in this volume.

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100 BAI p/1

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New Jersey : Prentice Hall., 1996

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xii,558p.; 23 cm.

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English

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0-13-234493-9

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100

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PHILOSOPHY

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