Focusing on the period of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Plotinus, Philosophy of the Ancients is an up-to-date introduction to the study of the classic Greek and Roman philosophers.
Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other...
A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change...