Studies in Early Greek Philosophy, A Collection of Papers and One Review.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansfeld, Jaap

Series:

Philosophia Antiqua 151.

Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 151

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God (Greek religion).

Philosophy, Ancient.

Natural theology--History of doctrines.

Natural theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Summary:

The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Detheologization

Insight by Hindsight

Bothering the Infinite

Anaximander’s Fragment: Another Attempt

Anaximenes’ Soul

Minima Parmenidea

Parmenides from Right to Left

Parmenides on Sense Perception in Theophrastus and Elsewhere

Heraclitus on Soul and Super-Soul

Alcmaeon and Plato on Soul

The Body Politic

Aristotle on Anaxagoras in Relation to Empedocles in Metaphysics A

»Das verteufelte Lastschiff«

Democritus on Poetry

Out of Touch

The Presocratic Philosophers

Protagoras on Epistemological Obstacles and Persons

Aristotle on Socrates’ Contributions to Philosophy

Hermann Diels (1848–1922).

ISBN:

90-04-38206-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004382060 DOI