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On the other hand, it is a clear empirical fact that not every shape can be fitted to every stuff: you may fashion a sphere of wood or metal, but you will not impose a spherical form on water or fire; the characteristic ...
Parmenides of Elea is generally considered the most profound and challenging of the Presocratic philosophers. John Palmer develops and defends a fundamentally original interpretation of Parmenides and his place in early Greek thought.
This book explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from Socrates' predecessors up to the Platonists of late antiquity.
Discover how our big social, political and ethical ideas are formed with The Philosophy Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format.
Sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' 'Neoplatonism'.
Leshcr, J. H. (1995) "Mind's knowledge and powers of control in Anaxagoras DK B12," Phronesis 40: 125—42. Lewis, E. (2000) "Anaxagoras and the seeds of a physical theory," Apeiron 33: 1—23. ... (1980) An Essay on Anaxagoras. Cambridge.
The PresocraticsBy Philip Wheelwright
Heidegger and Fink, both deeply rooted in the Freiburg phenomenological tradition, offer two competing approaches to the phenomenological reading of the ancient text-a kind of reading that, as Fink says, is "not so much concerned with the ...
This book presents some of the most recent trends and developments in Presocratic scholarship.
Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines the role that allegory plays in Greek thought, particularly in the transition from the mythic tradition of the archaic poets to the philosophical traditions of the Presocratics and Plato.