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Excerpt from In the Beginning: Some Greek Views on the Origins of Life and the Early State of ManThis book represents a series of Messenger Lectures at Cornell University, the purpose of which is stated in a note printed at the end. The foundation is not primarily a classical one. Indeed this is the first time in thirty-five years that the lectures have been allotted to the Classical Department, and it was impressed on the lecturer that they s...

Surveys the great age of Greek philosophy from Thales to Aristotle. Explains the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and looks at the main strands of thought in Greek philosophy.

The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.

The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists a...

The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.

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This book is a general survey of the Greeks' extraordinarily rapid advance from a mythological to a rational view of the world and of man's origins and place in the universe. The continuity of this development and the influence of myth on philosophy are closely studied. There is also a constant assessment of the Greeks' approach to modern scientific and philosophical conceptions, including the Darwinian theory, but the affinity of our civiliza...

With this book, Professor Guthrie completed his six-volume A History of Greek Philosophy in the course of which he surveyed the whole field of Greek philosophy from the Presocratics to Aristotle. The History has won acclaim for the author's ability to take on a vast and challenging subject and to produce an account of it remarkable for its combination of learning with clarity of exposition. This is a book for students of classics and Greek phi...

Volume IV therefore offers a general introduction to Platos life and writings, and covers the so-called 'early' and 'middle' periods of his philosophical development (up to and including the Republic).

All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness.

Volume IV therefore offers a general introduction to Platos life and writings, and covers the so-called 'early' and 'middle' periods of his philosophical development (up to and including the Republic).

The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.

W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and to describe the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking and outlook on the world. Thus The Greek Phi...

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In this volume Professor Guthrie continues and completes his account of Plato's philosophy.

Excerpt from In the Beginning: Some Greek Views on the Origins of Life and the Early State of Man This book represents a series of Messenger Lectures at Cornell University, the purpose of which is stated in a note printed at the end. The foundation is not primarily a classical one. Indeed this is the first time in thirty-five years that the lectures have been allotted to the Classical Department, and it was impressed on the lecturer that they...

The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates.