Early Greek philosophy
(2001)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
182/BARNES,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 182/BARNES,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2001
EDITION
Second revised edition
DESCRIPTION

xlix, 282 pages : map ; 20 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0140448152, 9780140448153, 9780140448153, 0140448152 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Although none of their original writings have come down to us complete, patient detective work enables us to reconstruct the crucial questions they asked and their absorbing answers. Here Jonathan Barnes brings together the surviving Presocratic fragments in their original contexts, allowing modern readers to get to grips with these pioneering thinkers whose ideas remain at the centre of philosophical debate. The revised edition of the collection has been undated to take account of further research and a major new papyrus of Empedocles."--Jacket

CONTENTS

1

Precursors

3 --

2

Thales

9 --

3

Anaximander

18 --

4

Anaximenes

24 --

5

Pythagoras

28 --

6

Alcmaeon

36 --

7

Xenophanes

40 --

8

Heraclitus

48 --

9

Parmenides

77 --

10

Melissus

92 --

11

Zeno

99 --

12

Empedocles

111 --

13

Fifth-century Pythagoreanism

162 --

14

Hippasus

174 --

15

Philolaus

176 --

16

Ion of Chios

182 --

17

Hippo

183 --

18

Anaxagoras

185 --

19

Archelaus

199 --

20

Leucippus

201 --

21

Democritus

203 --

22

Diogenes of Apollonia

254