History Of Ancient Philosophy eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This second volume of my History of Ancient Philosophy contains the treatment of Plato and Aristotle, and hence the most remarkable heights achieved by Greek thought. We have been concerned with these two authors many times in wide-rang ing research, but on Plato only in the last few years have we arrived at a satisfactory summary overview, especially in our work Toward a New Interpreta tion of Plato. A Rereading of the Metaphysics of the Great Dialogues in the Light of the Unwritten Doctrines (a preliminary edition in 1984; a revision and amplification as well as a third and fourth edition in 1986; and in were published).