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The beginnings of philosophy

edited by David J. Furley and R.E. Allen

(Routledge library editions, . Ancient philosophy ; v. 4 . Studies in presocratic philosophy ; v. 1)

Routledge, 2017

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge and K. Paul ; New York : Humanities Press, 1970. (Studies in presocratic philosophy ; v. 1)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover: The nature of Presocratic thought The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics The earliest philosophers up to Heraclitus

Table of Contents

1. The Characteristics and Effects of Pre-Socratic Philosophy H. F. Cherniss 2. Was the Ionian Philosophy Scientific? F. M. Cornford 3. Review of F. M. Cornford: Principium Sapientiae Gregory Vlastos 4. Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies Gregory Vlastos 5. Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought Gregory Vlastos 6. Back to the Prescoratics Karl Popper 7. Popper on Science and the Presocratics G. S. Kirk 8. Theoprastus on the Presocratic Causes J. B. McDiarmid 9. Aristotle As Historian W. K. C. Guthrie 10. Hot and Cold, Dry and Wet in Early Greek Thought G. E. R. Lloyd 11. Anaximander and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy Uvo Hoelscher 12. Some Problems in Anaximander G. S. Kirk 13. The Pythagoreans and Greek Mathematics W. A. Heidel 14. The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum Kurt von Fritz 15. On Heraclitus Gregory Vlastos

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  • NCID
    BB22211816
  • ISBN
    • 9781138201286
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Abingdon
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 429 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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