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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Long, A. A., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 427 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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 1999 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:

Scope of early Greek philosophy / A.A. Long

Sources / Jaap Mansfeld

Beginnings of cosmology / Keimpe Algra

Pythagorean tradition / Carl A. Huffman

Heraclitus / Edward Hussey

Parmenides and Melissus / David Sedley

Zeno / Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.

Empedocles and Anaxagoras : responses to Parmenides / Daniel W. Graham

Atomists / C.C.W. Taylor

Rational theology / Sarah Broadie

Early interest in knowledge / J.H. Lesher

Soul, sensation, and thought / André Laks

Culpability, responsibility, cause : philosophy, historiography, and medicine in the fifth century / Mario Vegetti

Rhetoric and relativism : Protagoras and Gorgias / Paul Woodruff

Protagoras and Antiphon : sophistic debates on justice / Fernanda Decleva Caizzi

Poetics of early Greek philosophy / Glenn W. Most.

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ISBN:

9781139000734 (ebook)

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