Early Greek Philosophy
Early Greek Philosophy
Author: Barnes, Jonathan
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
Published on 26 September 2002 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback / softback | 336 pages
195 x 130 x 16 | 236g
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.
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