{"product_id":"basic-concepts-of-ancient-philosophy-hardback-9780253349651","title":"Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy (Hardback) 9780253349651","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBasic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Heidegger (Author), Richard Rojcewicz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253349651\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 8 b\u0026amp;w figures\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A]n excellent resource for students and Continental thinkers . . . who make use of Heidegger's interpretation of ancient philosophy.\"—Robert Metcalf, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Colorado at Denver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBasic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the collected works, the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient philosophy beginning with Thales and ending with Aristotle. In this lecture, which coincides with the completion of his most important work, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time,\u003c\/i\u003e Heidegger is working out a way to sharply differentiate between beings and Being. Richard Rojcewicz's clear and accurate translation offers English-speaking readers valuable insight into Heidegger's views on Ancient thought and concepts such as principle, cause, nature, unity, multiplicity, \u003ci\u003eLogos,\u003c\/i\u003e truth, science, soul, category, and motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator's Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Preliminary Remarks\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. General Introduction to Ancient Philosophy \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. Working out of the central concepts and questions of ancient philosophy, with the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics as guideline\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. The question of cause and of foundation as a philosophical question\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. The Most Important Greek Thinkers: Their Questions and Answers\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Section One. Philosophy up to Plato\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. Milesian philosophy of nature\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. Heraclitus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three. Parmenides and the Eleatics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four. The later philosophy of nature: Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and atomism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five. Sophistry and Socrates\u003cbr\u003e Section Two. Plato's philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. Biography, secondary literature, and general characterization of Plato's questioning\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. More concrete determination of the problem of Being in Plato's philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three. Interpretation of the dialogue, Theatetus: the connection between the question of the Idea of science and the question of Being\u003cbr\u003e First definition\u003cbr\u003e Second definition\u003cbr\u003e Third definition\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four. Central concepts of Plato's philosophy in the context of the understanding of Being and the question of Being\u003cbr\u003e Section Three. Aristotle's philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One. On the problem of the development and of the adequate reception of Aristotle's philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two. The ontological problem and the idea of philosophical research\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three. The fundamental questioning of the problematic of Being\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four. The problem of motion and the ontological meaning of that problem. \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five. Ontology of life and of Dasein\u003cbr\u003e APPENDICES\u003cbr\u003e Supplementary Texts\u003cbr\u003e Excerpts from the Mörchen Transcription\u003cbr\u003e Bröcker Transcription\u003cbr\u003e Editor's Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Greek-English Glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520532967704,"sku":"9780253349651","price":28.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/basic-concepts-of-ancient-philosophy-hardback-9780253349651","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}