The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts

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Cambridge University Press, 29 дек. 1983 г. - Всего страниц: 501
Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide the basis for a detailed critical study of the principal individual thinkers of the time. Besides serving as an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek philosophy and in the history of science, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in philosophy, theology, the history of ideas and of the ancient world, and indeed to anyone who wants an authoritative account of the Presocratics.
 

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The Forerunners of Philosophical Cosmogony
7
1 The naive view of the world
9
2 Okeanos
10
3 Night
17
4 Orphic cosmogonies
21
5 The Hesiodic cosmogony and the separation of earth and sky
34
6 Mixed theogonies
47
B Pherecydes
50
Pythagoras of Samos
214
Parmenides of Elea
239
Zeno of Elea
263
Empedocles of Acragas
280
Philolaus of Croton and FifthCentury Pythagoreanism
322
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
352
Archelaus of Athens
385
Melissus of Samos
390

7 Toward philosophy
72
Thales of Miletus
76
Anaximander of Miletus
100
Anaximenes of Miletus
143
Xenophanes of Colophon
163
Heraclitus of Ephesus
181
The Atomists Leucippus of Miletus and Democritus of Abdera
402
Diogenes of Apollonia
434
Selective Bibliography
453
Index of passages
461
General Index
475
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