THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS - Jonathan Barnes (Hardback, Routledge 2006)

THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS - Jonathan Barnes (Routledge, 2006)

Hardback. 704 pages.

The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought.

Contents:

1. The Springs of Reason
2. Anaximander on Nature
3. Science and Speculation
4. The Natural Philosophy of Heraclitus
5. The Divine Philosophy of Xenophanes
6. Pythagoras and the Soul
7. The Moral Law
8. The Principles of Human Knowledge
THE SERPENT.
9. Parmenides and the Objects of Inquiry
10. Being and Becoming
11. Stability and Change
12. Zeno: Paradox and Plurality
13. Zeno: Paradox and Progression
14. The Ports of Knowledge Closed
PARADISE REGAINED.
15. The Ionian Revival
16. Anaxagoras and the Nature of Stuffs
17. The Corpuscularian Hypothesis
18. Philolaus and the Formal Cause
19. The Logic of Locomotion
20. The Neo-Ionian World Picture
21. The Sophists
22. De Anima
23. Conduct Unbecoming
24. The Bounds of Knowledge
EPILOGUE.
25. The Last of the Line
Appendix A Sources. Appendix B Chronology. Notes. Bibliography (revised 1981). Indexes. Concordance.

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