Presocratic Philosophers - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521091691 ISBN 13: 9780521091695

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Philosophy

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Book Description:

Beginning with a revised introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this new edition traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the early 6th century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists of the fifth century.

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Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, the book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the early 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521091691
• ISBN 13: 9780521091695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 500