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Ancient Philosophy: Volume 4: Hellenistic and Post-Classical Schools

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Ancient Philosophy, Volume 4: Hellenistic and Post-Classical Schools The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE did not end philosophy — it transformed it. The collapse of the classical city-state forced Greek thinkers to ask a harder question: how does the individual live well in a world no longer organized around the human community? The answers they gave shaped Western thought for two thousand years, and much of how we still think about happiness, virtue, fate, and the examined life. Volume 4 of the Ancient Philosophy series traces the full arc of that transformation — from the radical street philosophy of the Cynics through the systematic consolations of Stoicism and Epicureanism, the rigorous doubt of the Pyrrhonists, the mathematical theology of the Neoplatonists, and the final closing of the ancient schools in 529 CE. More than 100 thinkers are treated individually, from household names — Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Lucretius, Plotinus — to figures whose importance is rarely appreciated outside specialist scholarship. This volume also breaks important new ground. Early Chinese philosophy receives full treatment alongside the Western tradition: Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, and their contemporaries are presented not as curiosities but as independent philosophical achievements whose parallels with Hellenistic thought are philosophically significant. The result is the most comprehensive single-volume treatment of post-classical ancient philosophy currently available for the general reader. Coverage includes: the Cynics, Cyrenaics, Megarian and Dialectical schools, Stoics, Academic and Pyrrhonian Skeptics, Epicureans, Peripatetics, Old Academy, Middle Platonism, Neoplatonism, Neopythagoreanism, Roman Eclectic philosophers, Philo of Alexandria, Hellenistic mathematics and astronomy, and early Chinese philosophy. Features: Bibliography of primary and secondary sources · Glossary of key Greek, Latin, and Chinese philosophical terms · Chronological table of thinkers and historical events · Comprehensive index Part of the Ancient Philosophy series, which argues that the history of philosophy neither began with the Greeks nor ended with them — and reads the tradition accordingly.

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: B0GTV6H6TL
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > History & Schools of Thought > Western
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 March 2026
Listed Since: 25 March 2026

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