Presocratic Philosophers A Critical History with a Selcetion of Texts

Name: Presocratic Philosophers A Critical History with a Selcetion of Texts
Price: 23.89 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521274555

ISBN-10: 0521274559

ISBN-13: 9780521274555

Edition: 2nd 1983 (Revised)

Authors: G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield

List price: $44.99

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $40.38

Marketplace

4 new & used from $23.89

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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 B.C. 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…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/29/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 518
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Preface to the second edition


Preface to the first edition


Abbreviations


Introductory note



The forerunners of philosophical cosmogony



The Ionian thinkers



Philosophy in the west



The Ionian response


Selective bibliography


Index of passages


General index