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Anaximander's Apeiron
Anaximander’s Apeiron
ancient metaphysics
Aristotle's De Generatione
Aristotle’s De Generatione
Atomist Cosmology
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Cosmic Cycle
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Cosmological Account
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Demand Decoding
Di Cult
Diogenes
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Early Greek Philosophy
Epistemological Progress
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Everyday Common Sense World
Good Life
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Mortal Opinion
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Outer Heaven
Panta Rhei
paradoxes
Perceptible Properties
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Predicative Sense
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reconstructing presocratic arguments
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Su Cient Reason
Universal Mixture
Vice Versa
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Product details
- ISBN 9781844650927
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 saw the development of wide range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account that there is only one unchanging existent 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 BC. It explores how we might go about reconstructing their views and understanding the motivation and context for their work as well as highlighting the ongoing philosophical interest of their often surprising claims. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the major Presocratic thinkers, including Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Leucippus and Democritus, and an introductory chapter sets the scene by describing their intellectual world and the tradition through which their philosophy has been transmitted and interpreted. With a useful chronology and guide to further reading the book is an ideal introduction for the student and general reader.
James Warren is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
