The first philosophers : the presocratics and sophists

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The first philosophers : the presocratics and sophists

Title remainder

the presocratics and sophists

Statement of responsibility

translated with commentary by Robin Waterfield

Contributor

• Waterfield, Robin, 1952-

Translator

• Waterfield, Robin, 1952-

Subject

• Filosofia antiga
• Filosofia grega
• PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys | Ancient & Classical
• Pre-Socratic philosophers
• Pre-Socratic philosophers
• Pré-socráticos
• Quelle
• Sofistas
• Sophistik
• Sophistik -- Einführung
• Sophistik -- Text
• Sophists (Greek philosophy)
• Sophists (Greek philosophy)
• Vorsokratiker
• Vorsokratiker -- Einführung
• Vorsokratiker -- Text

Genre

• Einführung
• Text

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

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• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

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Provided by publisher

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N$T

Dewey number

182

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

B187.5

LC item number

.F57 2000eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford world's classics