The first philosophers : the presocratics and sophists /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
Description:1 online resource (xlvi, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Présocratiques.
Sophistes grecs.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Pre-Socratic philosophers.
Sophists (Greek philosophy)
Vorsokratiker
Quelle
Sophistik
Sophistik -- Text.
Vorsokratiker -- Text.
Vorsokratiker -- Einführung.
Sophistik -- Einführung.
Filosofia antiga.
Filosofia grega.
Pré-socráticos.
Sofistas.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11259958
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Other authors / contributors:Waterfield, Robin, 1952- translator.
ISBN:9780191592478
0191592471
0192824546
9780192824547
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought.Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology,ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy.This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary."--
Other form:Print version: First philosophers. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0192824546