The giants of pre-sophistic Greek philosophy: an attempt to reconstruct their thoughts

The giants of pre-sophistic Greek philosophy: an attempt to reconstruct their thoughts

Philosophy, Ancient
Philosophers -- Greece

Felix M. Cleve

The Hague, M. Nijhoff

1965

2 v. (xxxviii, 580 p.) illus. 25 cm.. ; vol. 1

v. 1: Acknowledgements -- Foreward -- Sources and motives of philosophy -- Religious reformers: Heraclitus of Ephesus -- Introduction -- The proton and its transformation -- Immortality -- His eternity the logos -- "Gran Teatro del Mundo" -- Redemption -- Heraclitus and posterity -- Philosophers of nature: introduction -- The Transformists -- Anaximander of Miletus -- The scientist -- The philosopher -- The agenetists -- Anaxagoras of Klazomenai: introduction -- The constituents of the universe -- The mlements and their moiras -- Nous, the ruler element and construction engineer -- Cosmogony -- The primordial condition -- First means of cosmopoeia: differentiation --Second means of cosmopoeia: rotation -- Differentiation and rotation acting together -- Third means of cosmopoeia: dismemberment of the axis -- The bodies -- The souls -- Infinity in space and time: One cosmos or many cosmoi? -- The ostensible beginning of time -- Anaxagoras and posterity: the elements-Aristotelian and otherwise -- Nous-Aristotelian and otherwise -- Epilogue.

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