Description
Title: Early Greek Philosophy
Author: BARNES JONATHAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 26/09/2002
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
A key anthology of early Western thought
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.
ISBN: 9780140448153
Weight: 234g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 336
Edition: 02