Greek philosophy is a difficult subject. You have to understand complex ideas, and you have to bridge the social and historical gaps between contemporary and Hellenistic culture. The Classic Surveys on Greek Philosophy collection provides resources for gaining competency in the historical context and intellectual world of the Greek philosophers. The authors identify individual thinkers and philosophical schools, explaining the contributions of each. The perennially relevant works in this collection will provide a foundation for life-long exploration of Greek philosophy, as well as its intellectual descendants.

Originally published as a multivolume work in 1882, Alfred Benn’s The Greek Philosophers begins by asking how Greek society, on the heels of the Peloponnesian War and in social and political disarray, “developed all the highest human faculties to an extent possibly rivalled but certainly not surpassed by the collective efforts of that vastly greater population which now wields the accumulated resources of modern Europe.” Benn documents Greece’s rise in the post war years, the development of Ath...

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These scanned pages offer the ability to explore content outside our normal Logos editions.

The Philosophy of Greece considers how the prephilosophical culture and geography of Greece contributed to its fourth-century-BC intellectual and philosophical climate. Benn focuses on the nation as a whole, and seeks to understand how the Greek experience in the physical world created what many believe was the world’s most intellectually oriented society.