Beschreibung
Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, the book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the early sixth century B.C.E. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century. It is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide the basis for a detailed critical study of the principal individual thinkers of the time.
Buchdetails
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Seiten
500 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Jan 1, 1984
Verlag
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ausgaben
15 Ausgaben
ISBN-10
0521058910
ISBN-13
9780521058919