Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Barnes, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140448152 ISBN 13: 9780140448153

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

Jonathan Barnes is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva. He has held visiting posts at the University of Chicago, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and at the University of Texas. He was also a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. His publications include The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (1995), and The PreSocreatic Philosophers (1979).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0140448152
• ISBN 13: 9780140448153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 282