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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (2004) — Editor — 157 exemplars
Al-Kindi (2006) 22 exemplars
Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays (2019) — Editor — 7 exemplars
Al-Rāzī (2021) 3 exemplars

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The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (2012) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy (Oxford Handbooks) (2012) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2013) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition (2006) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
The Libraries of the Neoplatonists (2007) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume 35: Winter 2008 (2008) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Rereading Ancient Philosophy : Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows (2017) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars

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Classical Philosophy by Peter Adamson book no#500 a Ancient History (octubre 2021)

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Peter Adamson explains that the Islamic world is all the places that have been under Islamic political and cultural control from the rise of Islam in the seventh century through to the present day. So this small book is full of geography, history, religion, and of course, philosophy.

I learned a great deal about the complexity of this Islamic world and its philosophy by reading the introduction, scanning through parts of each chapter, studying its maps and timelines. There was more detail than I could absorb on a first reading about this important topic. This is one of the many volumes in Oxford University Press' Very Short Introductions. It's 130 pages or so. Not a quick read for me, but an interesting one.

I learned that many of the important philosophers who contributed to this topic, through original writings or translations were not Muslims. Some were Jewish, or Christian, and much of the groundwork of the various strands of the resulting philosophy came by way of the writings of Greek and other Pagan philosophers. And each area, each era, each society had its own ideas. Theologians, philosophers, clerics, and legal scholars all contributed to the rich history of philosophy in the Islamic world.
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mykl-s | Feb 16, 2024 |
(Goodreads me deixando na mão, apagou o que havia escrito). Enfim, acompanhei pelo podcast em https://historyofphilosophy.net/series/classical-greek-philosophy . É divertido e simples, bom de acompanhar fazendo outras pequenas tarefas, e vai dos pré-socráticos aos seguidores imediatos de Aristóteles, ficando um bom tempo neste e em Platão, como era de se esperar, em 51 episódios de mais ou menos 25 minutos. As entrevistas aprofundam um pouco, mas infelizmente sofrem em termos de qualidade de áudio. É legal como um complemento que ajuda a localizar um pouco mais as correntes filosóficas (é uma empreitada em vários volumes).… (més)
 
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henrique_iwao | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Aug 30, 2022 |
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson is a detailed look at the philosophers of the Greek and Roman Era. Adamson holds a joint appointment with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Previously Professor of Philosophy at King’s College, London. He has published on Aristotle, Plotinus, al-Farabi and other members of the Baghdad School, Avicenna, and Averroes. A special focus of research is the output of the translation circle of al-Kindi, on which he has written The Arabic Plotinus: a Philosophical Study of the "Theology of Aristotle" and Great Medieval Thinkers: al-Kindi. Adamson is also editor or co-editor of several books.

In graduate school, political philosophy was taught by a newly minted Ph.D. with a dissertation on Kierkegaard. I enjoyed the class immensely mostly in part because my project that semester centered around Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy, which I read and reread several times as an undergraduate. Others were not so confident with Hegel, Kant, and Nietzsche. The thought of philosophy puts fear into many students. Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine can be intimidating, but Adamson does a remarkable job delivering the message of the Greek philosophers through the early Roman Christian philosophers.

Adamson does not give the reader a "philosophy for dummies" course but explains in uncomplicated detail more than just what the philosopher said, but his influences, worldview, and how it all ties together. He compares himself to a cover band for each philosopher and it makes sense. To be a KISS cover band, you need to do more than play "Hotter Than Hell," you need the makeup, costumes, and the fire breathing. It's the complete picture that makes everything work. Adamson, also, isn't afraid to use his sense of humor and plenty of puns (obvious and not so obvious). The reader will now he is in for a treat with chapters titles "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Like a Rolling Stone."

The Greek period covers, my favorite, the Cynics, the Stoics, the Skeptics, and the Epicureans. The Cynic Diogenes was the a man who told Alexander the Great, that he was blocking his sun and needs to move. He was also the man who traveled with only a stick, a pouch, and a cup for drinking. Once he saw a young boy cupping his hands to drink and decided not to be outdone by a child, he threw away his cup. However, there is one area where his minimalism didn't come into play -- education, "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."

I found the Greek philosophers far more interesting than the Romans, but there are interesting aspects of the latter especially when Christianity is introduced into the mix. I found that one of my favorite paradoxes is mentioned -- that of an all-knowing God and free will. Perhaps one of the most important philosophers of the period was Augustine is discussed in detail. In the Pagan era, there is coverage of Plotinus and Porphyry.

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
is a great introduction, or review, of the philosophers of the era. It is very well written and presented in a welcoming way and there is more than enough detail for those with some background in philosophy without being intimidating to those without previous knowledge on the subject. Adamson writes in a conversational tone that makes the reader feel they are being spoken to rather than spoke at. A very well written book in both subject matter and readability. I look forward to future volumes covering the Medieval and Enlightenment philosophers.

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evil_cyclist | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 16, 2020 |
Classical Philosophy is the first book in Peter Adamson’s series “A History of Philosophy without any Gaps”. The aim of this series is, unsurprisingly, to tell the history of philosophy without any gaps; that is, without passing over less well known traditions, authors or works. This alone makes it a valuable addition to the existing histories of philosophy, since even a professional philosopher like myself will find much that is unfamiliar or completely unknown. The continuous story made possible by Adamson’s approach makes it much easier to understand how humanity’s ideas have actually evolved – something that is hard to grasp when one jumps from Aristotle to Augustine with little discussion of what came in between.

In some ways, this first volume is the least representative of the series, since its focus is squarely on authors that do form part of the standard histories of philosophy. It is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the Presocratics from Thales to Empdocles, while also paying some attention to the medical writings of Hippocrates and the ideas of the sophists. The second part is about Socrates and especially Plato; while the third part tackles Aristotle. The book ends with a chapter on early women philosophers and a chapter on the immediate followers of Plato and Aristotle.

Although most of the attention goes to the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle, the without-any-gaps approach is still in evidence. Adamson tackles Plato and Aristotle by discussing many of their individual works, and he picks up a generous amount of them. For instance, the discussion of Plato doesn’t stop with the usual suspects like the Republic and the Symposium, but extends to less famous dialogues like the Gorgias, the Sophist, the Cratylus and even the Charmides and Euthydemus. The part about Aristotle ranges widely over the logic, the biology, the physics, the metaphysics, the ethics and even works like On the soul and the Politics. Anyone but a specialist will discover much that is new.

Of course, none of this would be worth much if the quality of the work were poor. In fact, it is superb. Adamson manages to be at the same time accessible and authoritative, funny and engaged in serious philosophy. He is excellent at conveying the main ideas of the works he discusses, while also touching on contemporary issues of interpretation. It is no mean feat to write a text that is useful both to the general reader with an interest in philosophy and to the professional academic philosopher, but I have not hesitation in saying that Adamson pulls it off.

Nevertheless, the book does have a weakness. It is based very closely on a series of podcasts by the same title; and because of this background, it consists entirely of approximately 7-page chapters that mostly focus on a single work and are thus relatively self-contained. For a podcast, this is the perfect format; I love the podcast without any reservations and would award it 5 stars. But for a book, this format makes less sense, since it makes it harder to keep a general overview of a philosophical system and almost impossible to discuss issues that can only be understood by linking up ideas from multiple works. Thus, the book doesn’t take full advantage of what the book format has to offer. It is still very good; but it fully comes into its own only as a companion piece to the podcast, allowing one to reread the material one has previously heard and benefit from references in the footnotes.
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