Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy

Name: Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521446679

ISBN-10: 0521446678

ISBN-13: 9780521446679

Edition: 1999

Authors: A. A. Long

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The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics. All these thinkers are discussed in this volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on specific topics.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

A. A. Long is Emeritus Professor of Classics, Irving G. Stone Professor of Literature, and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.



Contributors


Preface


Source abbreviations


Lives and writings of the early Greek philosophers


Chronology


Map



The scope of early Greek philosophy




Sources




The beginnings of cosmology




The Pythagorean tradition




Heraclitus




Parmenides and Melissus




Zeno




Empedocles and Anaxagoras: Responses to Parmenides




The atomists




Rational theology




Early interest in knowledge




Soul, sensation, and thought




Culpability, responsibility, cause: Philosophy, historiography, and medicine in the fifth century




Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias




Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice




The poetics of early Greek philosophy



Bibliography


Index of passages


Index of names and subjects