{"id":11417,"count":13,"description":"Philosophy in the ancient world was not the exclusive preserve of the Greeks, although it is often presented as such. Our interviews on the subject put that right. Bryan van Norden chooses his best books on world philosophy<\/a>, including two works of ancient Chinese philosophy, two from Europe and one from India. Michael Puett chooses his best books on Chinese philosophy<\/a>, arguing that the philosophical enquiries of Confucius in China were driven by socio-economic changes that affected the whole Eurasian landmass at the end of the bronze age.\r\n\r\nPeter Adamson talks about philosophy in the Islamic World<\/a> and the interplay of the philosophical tradition in the Arabic-speaking world with the philosophy of ancient Greece.\u00a0 He explains what was original in that tradition and why he thinks that Avicenna was the most important medieval philosopher of any religious persuasion.\r\n\r\nMM McCabe talks about Socrates<\/a> and Angela Hobbs discusses the Presocratics<\/a>. Melissa Lane chooses her best books on Plato<\/a>. Other interviewees point to the enduring appeal of ancient philosophy in finding a way to live. Edith Hall discusses how Aristotle<\/a> helped her to develop a workable morality after losing her Christian faith as a teenager.\u00a0 Massimo Pigliucci talks about how Stoicism<\/a> is still a useful rule of life and Jules Evans, in his interview on ancient philosophy for modern life,<\/a> explains how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was inspired by Socrates.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/philosophy\/ancient-philosophy\/","name":"Ancient Philosophy","slug":"ancient-philosophy","taxonomy":"category","parent":5194,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5194"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11417"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11417"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}