Early Greek philosophy : the Presocratics and the emergence of reason / edited by Joe McCoy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCoy, Joe.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 57.

Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy ; Volume 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The philosophy of the Presocratics still governs scholarly discussion today. This important volume grapples with a host of philosophical issues and philological and historical problems inherent in interpreting Presocratic philosophers.

Contents:

The achievement of early Greek philosophy: a drama in five acts: from Hesiod to the Timaeus / Charles Kahn

Op, Anaximander's Apeiron. and the arrangement of time / Kurt Pritzl

The problem of evil in Heraclitus / Kenneth Dorter

Reason and myth in early Pythagorean cosmology / Carl A. Huffman

A systematic Xenophanes? / J.H. Lesher

Parmenides, astronomy, and scientific realism / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos

Where are love and strife?: incorporeality in Empedocles / Patricia Curd

Anaxagoras: science and speculation in the golden age / Daniel W. Graham

Bacon's third sailing: the Presocratic origins of modern philosophy / John C. McCarthy

Primal truth, errant tradition, and crisis: the Presocratics in late modernity / Richard Velkley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2122-6

OCLC:

861793339