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Ordnung und Geschichte Band 5: Die Welt der Polis: Vom Mythos zur Philosophie
2003
by
Voegelin
Eric Voegelin
Political Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
Plato
Anthropology
Auguste Comte
Thomas Aquinas
Subjective Value
Marxism
Education
Aristotle
Phenomenology
Division of Labor
Natural Law
Methodology
Epistemology
David Hume
Egalitarianism
Slavery
Imperialism
Democracy
Class Struggle
Table of Contents · 78 segments
1
Front Matter, Series Information, and Publication Data
bibliography
2
General Table of Contents for The World of the Polis
theoretical
3
Analytical Table of Contents: From Myth to Philosophy and the Century of Athens
theoretical
4
Chapter 6, Section 1: The Emergence of Philosophy
chapter
5
Philosophy and the Burden of the Polis
theoretical
6
Xenophanes’ Attack on Myth: The Adequacy of Symbols
theoretical
7
Anthropomorphism and the Differentiation of Divine Symbols
theoretical
8
Xenophanes on the Universal Divine and the One
theoretical
9
The Aretai and the Polis: Xenophanes’ Sophia
theoretical
10
Tyrtaeus and Wild Martial Courage in the Polis
theoretical
11
Tyrtaios, Civic Courage, and the Hierarchy of Aretai
theoretical
12
Solon’s Eunomia and the Divine Measure of Civic Order
theoretical
13
Solon’s Eunomia and the Prototype of Spiritual Statesmanship
theoretical
14
From Arete to Authoritative Truth: Sappho, Socrates, Plato, and Christ
theoretical
15
Parmenides: The Way of Truth and the Immortal Soul
theoretical
16
Parmenides on the Truth of Being
theoretical
17
Parmenides’ Doxa and the Probable Cosmology
theoretical
18
The Rivalry Between the Ways of Truth
theoretical
19
Heraclitus and the Inner Dimension of the Soul
theoretical
20
Pythagorean Soul Doctrine and Heraclitus’ Exploration of Psyche
theoretical
21
Heraclitus’ Philosophy of Order: Soul, Polis, Cosmos
theoretical
22
Heraclitus, Transcendence, and the Social Problem of Spiritual Order
theoretical
23
Part III: The Century of Athens — Introduction
chapter
24
The Truth of Tragedy
chapter
25
The Meaning of Action
chapter
26
Tragedy and History
chapter
27
The End of Tragedy
essay
28
Chapter 11: The Sophists
chapter
29
The Education of Athens and the Scope of the Sophists
theoretical
30
Sophistic Curriculum, Political Technique, and Virtue Classification
theoretical
31
Sophistic Enlightenment, Gorgias, and the Loss of Transcendence
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32
Sophistic Continuities with Plato and Aristotelian Philosophy
theoretical
33
Plato as Source and Hippias as Autarkic Encyclopedist
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34
Hippias on Physis, Nomos, and the Republic of Savants
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35
From Mystic-Philosophers to Encyclopedic Intellectuals
theoretical
36
Methodological Limits in Reconstructing Hippias and the Sophists
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37
Plato's Protagoras: Teachability of Virtue and the Socratic Measure
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38
Methodological Introduction to Sophistic Fragments
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39
From Parmenides to Protagoras: Immanentization, Nous, and Man as Measure
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40
Democritus: Atomism, the Void, and Knowledge
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41
Democritus: Ethics of the Soul, Pleasure, and Euthymia
theoretical
42
Democritus: Measure, Health, and Political Order
theoretical
43
Nomos and Physis: Heraclitus and the Meanings of Law
theoretical
44
Nomos and Physis: Protagoras and Conservative Skepticism
theoretical
45
Nomos and Physis: Nature, Convention, and the Persian-War Context
theoretical
46
Antiphon: Natural Rules, Legal Convention, and Justice
theoretical
47
Antiphon Critiqued: Dichotomies, Medical Nature, and Cultural Disintegration
theoretical
48
Critias and the Sisyphus Fragment
theoretical
49
Equality, Inequality, and Concord after the Collapse of Nomos
theoretical
50
Prodicus, Lycophron, Alcidamas, and Late Sophistic Equality
theoretical
51
Conservative Sophistic Responses: On Concord and Anonymus Iamblichi
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52
Hippodamus, Phaleas, and Lost Constitutional Literature
theoretical
53
Chapter Introduction: Power and History
chapter
54
Herodotus: Life, Political World, and Intellectual Milieu
essay
55
Herodotus’ Program: Memory, Great Deeds, and the Cause of War
theoretical
56
Herodotus’ Historical Dynamics: Action, Reaction, and the Wheel of Power
theoretical
57
Imperial Power, Necessity, and Herodotus’ Method of Speeches
theoretical
58
The Persian Constitutional Debate and the Continuing Wheel of History
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59
The Old Oligarch: Text, Dating, and Historical Consciousness
essay
60
Democratic Class Power and Imperial Control in the Old Oligarch
theoretical
61
Athenian Sea Power, Imperial Economy, and the Island Ideal
essay
62
Ethos, Utility, and the Significance of the Old Oligarch for Political Theory
theoretical
63
Thucydides: Biographical Introduction
chapter
64
Syngraphe and Method: Thucydides’ Empirical Science of Kinesis
theoretical
65
Theory of Kinesis: Power, Justice, and the Collapse of Athenian Order
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66
Thucydides: Literary Form of the Syngraphe
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67
Thucydides: Key Formulations from Speeches and the Collapse of Ethos
theoretical
68
Register: Index of Names, Concepts, Greek Terms, and Works
bibliography
69
Translator Notes: General Editorial Principles
footnotes
70
Translator Notes to Chapter 6
footnotes
71
Translator Notes to Chapter 7
footnotes
72
Translator Notes to Chapter 8
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73
Translator Notes to Chapter 9
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Translator Notes to Chapter 10
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Translator Notes to Chapter 11
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Translator Notes to Chapter 12
footnotes
77
The Philosophers’ Experience of Order and the Civic World of the Polis: Break with Myth and Self-Reflective Thought
essay
78
Power and Spirit in Athens
essay