Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

Library Journal

This volume represents the eighth installment in the series ``Hellenistic Culture and Society.'' Annas's objective is to place a renewed importance upon the previously underappreciated post-Aristotelian philosophers, mainly the Stoics and Epicureans. The author contends that the enormous variety of medical and scientific advances that were occurring during the Hellenistic Age made the study of philosophy separate from the study of science and medicine, thereby creating the opening for new, original schools of thought to replace the ``reduced'' Platonic and Aristotelian schools. Annas makes available a wealth of helpful background information condensed in footnotes that will guide the novice philosophy student to a comprehension and appreciation for this mentally strenuous and scholarly work.-- Jacqueline Garlesky, Cambria Cty. Lib., Johnstown, Pa.