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The Emergence of Wisdom in Ancient Greek Philosophy
By George Leone
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Throughout this book, the three philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, stand out as pioneers in three different directions of philosophy. With Socrates we find a philosopher who essentially defined what it means to be a philosopher. His life was a dedicated striving to reach a true understanding of wisdom and virtue. Toward this goal, Socrates was urged on by his self-knowledge that he was basically ignorant.
His student Plato took this search to new heights of a conceptual reality that Socrates implied throughout his life. Plato saw philosophy as the search for the reality behind appearances, resulting in his theory of the Forms, an abstract realm of pure Ideas that represented the absolutes that his teacher Socrates was searching for.
Aristotle inaugurated the scientific direction in philosophy as he created categories for biological studies, logic for rhetoric, and empirical approaches to understanding the world and our human place in it. His philosophy included ethics as well as metaphysics, and he initiated the first systematic study of the soul.
Leone is a retired professor of Counseling and Philosophy, with graduate degrees in both. He has a
life-long draw toward ancient Greek philosophy, seeing it as the original reshaping of the western consciousness in understanding life in the world. He lives in relative seclusion in New Mexico.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 186
- Release Date:
- 2025-10-28
- Publication Date:
- 2025-10-28
- Publisher:
- Christian Faith Publishing
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN13:
- 9798895263884
- Weight:
- 279 g
- Height:
- 152 cm
- Width:
- 229 cm
- Thickness:
- 10 cm
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