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THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY [Kindle Edition]

Eduard Zeller , Sarah Frances Alleyne , Evelyn Abbott

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Contents:

Introductory: Course of its Development

I. The Three Earliest Schools.

A. The Ancient Ionians.
Thales.
Anaximander.
Anaximenes.Later adherents of the ancient Ionian School: Diogenes

B. The Pythagoreans.
Pythagoras and his School.
The Pythagorean System: Number, and the Elements of Number.
The Pythagorean Physics.
Religious and Ethical Doctrines of the Pythagoreans.
Pythagoreanism in Combination with other Doctrines.

C. The Eleatics.
Xenophanes.
Parmenides.
Zeno and Melissus.


II. The Physicists Of The Fifth Century B.C.
Heracleitus.
Ernpedocles.
The Atomistic School.
Anaxagoras.


III. The Sophists.
Origin and Character of Sophisticism.
The Sophistical Scepticism and Eristic.
The Sophistic Ethics and Rhetoric.

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  • Publisher: Oak Grove (28 Nov 2010)
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A potent, short and sweet account of the Pre-Socratics 22 Mar 2012
By Robby - Published on Amazon.com
This belongs to any philosopher's collection.

There's minimal digression. Where it is, it seems to serve the authors' and the subject's point. Of particular admiration was the manner in which the Sophists have been handled. Unlike texts that rant endlessly regarding their eristic tendencies, their positive contributions have been mentioned too, albeit too briefly at the end of the text. I certainly do not admire their relativistic worldview but the book brings out the implications of their tenets in other fields like language, something I found informative.

This is a wonderful text for anyone seeking a quick recap of the Pre-Socratics. It provides a splendid bird's eye-view of the setting before the advent of the three great Titans.

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agree only herein, that in regard to the causes of things which science has to point out, they think primarily of their substantial causesi.e. that from which they arose, and in which, according to their essential nature, they consist; but they do not as yet definitely face the problem of explaining origin, decay, and change as such, and of discovering the universal cause of these phenomena. &quote;
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