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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
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Summary

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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A very entertaining engaging and informative piece especially if you're interested in Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

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Dense

I'm not sure this translates into audiobook so well. The subject matter requires some diagrammatic explanation, which is explained in the beginning of the book as being available in print and e-book, but not available here in any sort of appended PDF. The intro is laborious and tedious after a very bizarre and lengthy disclaimer.

The narrator is OK, but makes some rather amusing mistakes (primer=primmer, Marseilles=Marcels).

I stopped in the early chapters because I'm familiar enough with Greek philosophy to know that the way this was being presented was unnecessarily complex.

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