Ancient Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction

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This is a very interesting introduction to the ancient Greek philosophy. Most of us who had studied any form of ancient philosophy have had encounters with all of its "big thinkers", such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, etc. We may even know a thing or two about various schools of thought t......more

Discussed philosophy before the Middle Ages including reason vs emotion, teleology, what is happiness etc. in 6 chapters: 1. Started with the story of Medea and Jason. Hate of husband made Medea kill their children. This brought up two different views of emotions. Stoic believed that both reason and......more

Great beginning, great ending, but a slow middle when she starts outlining the nuts and bolts of ancient philosophy and what makes Aristotolean logic different from Epicurean logic. I mean, at least that was the part that I understood. The rest of it, not so much. Ironic, considering she mentions th......more

this book is a decent introduction to ancient philosophy. it introduces big philosophers like socrates, plato, aristotle, epicurus, diogenes and others, along with their ideas, such as plato's allegory of the chariot and stoicism's dichotomy of control, etc. the book itself consists of six chapters,......more