McKirahan, Richard D.

Philosophy before Socrates : an introduction with texts and commentary / Richard D. McKirahan, Jr. - 2nd ed. - Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c2010. - xviii, 494 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-476) and indexes.

The sources of early Greek philosophy -- Hesiod and the beginnings of Greek philosophy and science -- Miletus in the sixth century -- Thales of Miletus -- Anaximander of Miletus -- Anaximenes of Miletus -- Xenophanes of Colophon -- The early Ionian achievement -- Pythagoras of Samos and the Pythagoreans -- Heraclitus of Ephesus -- Parmenides of Elea -- Zeno of Elea -- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae -- Empedocles of Acragas -- Melissus of Samos -- Fifth-century atomism: Leucippus and Democritus -- Diogenes of Apollonia -- Philolaus of Croton -- Early Greek moral thought and the fifth-century Sophists -- The Nomos-Phusis debate.

9781603841825 (pbk.) 9781603841832 (cloth)

2009040711


Pre-Socratic philosophers.

B187.5 / .M35 2010

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