Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 193 mm, Gewicht: 274 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
The Presocratics and Sophists
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 193 mm, Gewicht: 274 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-953909-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought.
Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy.
This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary.
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Zielgruppe
For A-level, graduate, and postgraduate study aimed at courses relating to Classics, Philosophy, Western Thought
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Vorsokratische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Textual note
- Bibliography
- Chronology
- Explanatory notes
- Concordance
- Index
