Jonathan Barnes: Early Greek Philosophy
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- Kategoria: filosofia & psykologia, alakategoria: filosofia
- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Penguin Classics
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780140448153
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The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy — the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence — great though that was — than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary atomic theories of Democritus; the haunting and enigmatic epigrams of Heraclitus; and, the maxims of Alcmaeon: fragmentary as they often are, the thoughts of these philosophers seem strikingly modern in their concern to forge a truly scientific vocabulary and way of reasoning.