UID:
edocfu_9959695976002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxx, 427 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81530-X
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1-139-00073-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to philosophy
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Scope of early Greek philosophy /
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Sources /
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Beginnings of cosmology /
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Pythagorean tradition /
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Heraclitus /
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Parmenides and Melissus /
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Zeno /
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Empedocles and Anaxagoras : responses to Parmenides /
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Atomists /
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Rational theology /
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Early interest in knowledge /
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Soul, sensation, and thought /
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Culpability, responsibility, cause : philosophy, historiography, and medicine in the fifth century /
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Rhetoric and relativism : Protagoras and Gorgias /
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Protagoras and Antiphon : sophistic debates on justice /
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Poetics of early Greek philosophy /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44667-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44122-6
Language:
English