The beginnings of philosophy in Greece / Maria Michela Sassi ; translated by Michele Asuni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sassi, Maria Michela, 1955- author.

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Inizi della filosofia in Grecia. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Physical Description:

xx, 209 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Thales, Father of Philosophy? p. 1

Before the Presocratics p. 1

Ex Oriente Lux? p. 8

Back to Aristotle p. 19

Knowledge Has Many Faces p. 26

Chapter 2 Philosophy in the Cosmogonies p. 32

Hesiod: Cosmic Masses and Divine Personas p. 32

Anaximander in a World "without Gods" p. 37

The Invention of the Cosmos p. 44

The Horizon of the Theogonies p. 47

Pherecydes's "Mixed Theology" p. 51

A Cosmogony in the Temple of Thetis? p. 53

A New, Self-Conscious Knowledge p. 57

Chapter 3 Writing Experiments p. 64

A "Hot" Society p. 64

Egotisms p. 70

The Power of Writing p. 73

Anaximander; The Treatise and the Map p. 81

Xenophanes, Satirist and Polemicist p. 93

The Obscure Heraclitus p. 98

Chapter 4 Adventures of the Soul p. 110

The Soul, the Cosmos, and an Orange p. 110

From Breath to the Self p. 112

Restless Souls p. 119

Empedocles and His Daimon p. 120

To Each His Own (Compound) p. 136

Chapter 5 Voices of Authority p. 139

The Odd Couple p. 139

Farewell to the Muse p. 142

Power Games p. 148

The Truth Revealed in Song p. 151

Between Muses and Other Gods p. 160

The Specialization of Reason p. 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780691180502

0691180504

OCLC:

1029770984