W. K. C. Guthrie

William Keith Chambers Guthrie

Surveys Greek thought through a critical discussion of the major schools and philosophers

A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans

A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment

The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of knowledge and language; they initiated a whole series of important and continuing debates, and they provoked Socrates and Plato to a major restatement and defence of traditional values.

A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 3, The Fifth Century Enlightenment, Part 1, The Sophists

A history of Greek philosophy. 6. Aristotle : an encounter

A History of Greek Philosophy: Aristotle, an encounter

A Study of the Orphic Movement

Orpheus and Greek Religion

A History of Greek Philosophy: The fifth-century enlightenment

James Warren

With an new foreword by James Warren Long renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie’s The Greek Philosophersoffers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek philosophy – foundations that underpin Western thought today. Guthrie explores the great age of Greek Philosophy – from Thales to Aristotle – whilst combining comprehensiveness with brevity. He unpacks the ideas and arguments of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors and describes the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking, emphasising what he calls the ‘cultural soil’ of their ideas. He also highlights the achievements of thinkers such as Pythagoras, who in contemporary accounts of Greek philosophy are frequently overlooked. Combining philosophical insight and historical sensitivity, The Greek Philosophersoffers newcomers a brilliant introduction to the greatest thinkers in ancient Greek philosophy and the very origins of Western thought.

The Greek Philosophers from Thales to Aristotle

William Keith Chambers Guthrie

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