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The first philosophers : the presocratics and sophists /

"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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Waterfield, Robin, 1952- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
Colección:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Select bibliography
  • Note on the texts
  • Timeline
  • The Presocratics. The Milesians: Thales of Miletus, Anaximander of Miletus, Anaximenes of Miletus ; Xenophanes of Colophon ; Heraclitus of Ephesus ; Parmenides of Elea ; Zeno of Elea ; Melissus of Samos ; Pythagoras of Croton and fifth-century Pythagoreanism ; Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ; Empedocles of Acragas ; The atomists: Leucippus of Abdera, Democritus of Abdera ; Diogenes of Apollonia
  • The Sophists. Protagoras of Abdera ; Gorgias of Leontini ; Prodicus of Ceos ; Hippias of Elis ; Antiphon the Sophist ; Thrasymachus of Chalcedon ; Euthydemus and Dionysodorus of Chios ; Double arguments ; Anonymous and miscellaneous texts
  • Explanatory notes
  • Textual notes
  • Concordance with Diels/Kranz
  • Index of translated passages.