Early Greek philosophy
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Early Greek philosophy
（Penguin classics）（Penguin books, . Philosophy）
Penguin Books, 2001
2nd rev. ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-266) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary atomic theories of Democritus; the haunting and enigmatic epigrams of Heraclitus; and the maxims of Alcmaeon: fragmentary as they often are, the thoughts of these philosophers seem strikingly modern in their concern to forge a truly scientific vocabulary and way of reasoning.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: precursors
- Thales
- Anaximander
- Anaximenes
- Pythagoras
- Alcmaeon
- Xenophanes
- Heraclitus. Part II: Parmenides
- Melissus
- Zeno. Part III: Empedocles
- fifth-century Pythagoreanism
- Hippasus
- Philolaus
- Ion of Chios
- Hippo
- Anaxagoras
- Archelaus
- Leucippus
- Democritus
- Diogenes of Apollonia.
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