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The First Philosophers - The Presocratics and Sophists

The First Philosophers - The Presocratics and Sophists
Cover: Ragasztott
ISBN: 9780199539093
Language: english
Size: 128*196
Weight: 272 g
Page no.: 400
Publish year: 2009
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The First Philosophers - The Presocratics and Sophists

The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought.

Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus` enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno`s paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists` reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy.

This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary.

CONTENTS:

Introduction
Textual note
Bibliography
Chronology
Explanatory notes
Concordance
Index





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