Presocratics Natural Philosophers Before Socrates

Name: Presocratics Natural Philosophers Before Socrates
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ISBN: 9780520253698

ISBN-10: 0520253698

ISBN-13: 9780520253698

Edition: 2007

Authors: James Warren

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The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It also saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas, from Thales's claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides's account of one unchanging existence to the development of an atomist theory of the physical world. This general account of the Presocratics introduces the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth to the middle of the fifth century B.C. It explores how we might reconstruct their views and understand the motivation and context for their work, and it highlights the ongoing philosophical…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 235
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

James Warren is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Previous books include Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (2004) and Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: an Archaeology of Ataraxia (2002).



Acknowledgements


Sources and abbreviations


Chronology


Map of the ancient Mediterranean



Introduction: reading Presocratic philosophy



Ionian beginnings



Xenophanes



The oracles of Heraclitus



Parmenides



Reactions to Parmenides



Anaxagoras



Empedocles



Democritus and Leucippus



Epilogue


Guide to further reading


Notes


Bibliography


Index of passages


Index