Presocratic philosophy : essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos / edited by Victor Caston and Daniel W. Graham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mourelatos, Alexander P. D., 1936-

Caston, Victor, 1963-

Graham, Daniel W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xv, 346 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2002.

Contents:

Thales and the stars / Stephen White

Greek law and the presocratics / Michael Gagarin

Heraclitus and Parmenides / Daniel W. Graham

Parmenidean being, Heraclitean fire / Alexander Nehamas

Parmenides and the metaphysics of changelessness / R.J. Hankinson

Parmenides and Plato / Charles H. Kahn

Parmenides, double-negation, and dialectic / Scott Austin

The cosmology of mortals / Herbert Granger

Anaxagoras, Plato and the naming of parts / David Furley

Reading the readings : on the first person plurals in the Strasburg Empedocles / André Laks

The metaphysics of physics : mixture and separation in Empedocles and Anaxagoras / Patricia Curd

Democritus and Xeniades / Jacques Brunschwig

Democritus and eudaimonism / Julia Annas

Democritus and the explanatory power of the void / Sylvia Berryman

Natural justice? / Paul Woodruff

Gorgias on thought and its objects / Victor Caston

To tell the truth : Dissoi logoi 4 and Aristotle's responses / Owen Goldin

Archytas and the Sophists / Carl Huffman

Aetius, Aristotle and others on coming to be and passing away / Jaap Mansfeld

The pervasiveness of being / Paul Thom

Three philosophers look at the stars / Sarah Broadie

Protagoras' Great speech and Plato's defense of Athenian democracy / William Prior.

Notes:

Festschrift for Alexander Mourelatos.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0754605027

OCLC:

50270559