The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy / edited by A.A. Long.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Long, A. A.

Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 427 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Summary:

The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistemology, psychology, rhetoric and relativism, justice, and poetics. A chapter on causality extends the focus to include historians and medical writers.

Contents:

Lives and writings of the early Greek philosophers xvii

1 The scope of early Greek philosophy / A. A. Long 1

2 Sources / Jaap Mansfeld 22

3 The beginnings of cosmology / Keimpe Algra 45

4 The Pythagorean tradition / Carl A. Huffman 66

5 Heraclitus / Edward Hussey 88

6 Parmenides and Melissus / David Sedley 113

7 Zeno / Richard D. Mckirahan Jr. 134

8 Empedocles and Anaxagoras: Responses to Parmenides / Daniel W. Graham 159

9 The atomists / C. C. W. Taylor 181

10 Rational theology / Sarah Broadie 205

11 Early interest in knowledge / J. H. Lesher 225

12 Soul, sensation, and thought / Andre Laks 250

13 Culpability, responsibility, cause: Philosophy, historiography, and medicine in the fifth century / Mario Vegetti 271

14 Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias / Paul Woodruff 290

15 Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice / Fernanda Decleva Caizzi 311

16 The poetics of early Greek philosophy / Glenn W. Most 332.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-398) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521441226 [hbk.]

0521446678 [pbk.]

OCLC:

39654703