The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy

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Title

The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy

Subject

Philosophy, Ancient

Description

The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics. All these thinkers are discussed in this volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on specific topics.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press

Date

1999

Contributor

edited by A.A. Long

Identifier

ISBN : 0521441226
ISBN : 9780521441223
ISBN : 0521446678 [pbk
ISBN : 9780521446679 [pbk

Table Of 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 / AndreĢ 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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“The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy,” Humanities Hub, accessed December 22, 2024, https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/825.