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A History of Ancient Philosophy III: Systems of the Hellenistic Age

A History of Ancient Philosophy III: Systems of the Hellenistic Age

Reale, Giovanni
Catan, John R.

Paperback

Series: Suny Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0887060080
ISBN13: 9780887060083
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 30 1985
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Reale's volume supplies a synthesis previously lacking-a synthesis in the historical treatment of the great philosophies of the Hellenistic Age: the Academy, the Peripatos, the Stoa, the Garden of Epicurus, Scepticism, and Eclecticism. Reale's extensive and fully documented treatment of the major schools of the period is unified by his thesis that the ethics developed by these major schools were secular faiths that sprang from intuitions about the meaning of life first emotionally grasped and then systematically and rationally developed. It is for this reason that the teachings of these schools endured almost continuously for about 500 years. It is for the same reason that the founders of the schools were considered gods and were actually, in a certain sense, the saints of secular faiths and religions.

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