The Traveller's Guide to Classical Philosophy

Mention “classical philosophy” and most people think of a chronological spread of ideas from the pre‐Socratics through Plato (and of course Socrates) and Aristotle, to Epicurus and the Stoics, and beyond through Neo‐Platonism to early medieval thought. This is, typically, the approach taken by standard works in the field like The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Shields, 2003) (RR 2003/228). Blackwell's “reader's guide” to The Classics of Western Philosophy (Gracia et al., 2003) (RR 2004/004), takes this approach: a series of essays on texts like Plato's Phaedo and his Republic, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics...