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Common terms and phrasesAetios Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximander's Anaximenes animals Apollodoros argument Arist Aristotle Aristotle's Aristoxenos ascribed Boundless called century B.C. certainly Chap cold cosmologists cosmology course D. L. viii Demokritos Diels Diogenes Diogenes of Apollonia doctrine doubt doxographers early earth Eleatic elements Empedokles empty space eternal everything explained fact fire follows fragments given gods Greek heavenly bodies heavens Herakleitean Herakleitos Herodotos Hesiod Hippolytos idea infinite Ionian Kroton later Leukippos Love matter means Melissos Milesian Milesian School Miletos mixture moist moon motion nature once opposite original Parmenides passage philosophy Phys Placita Plato poem primary substance probably Pythagoras Pythagoreans quoted R. P. ib reality referred regarded Satyros scientific seems sense separated Simplicius simply soul speaks Sphere statement Strife supposed Thales Theophr Theophrastos theory things thought Timaios tion tradition words writers Xenophanes Zeller Zeno Popular passagesPage 186 - It is the same, and it rests in the selfsame place, abiding in itself. And thus it remaineth constant in its place; for hard necessity keeps it in the bonds of the limit that holds it fast on every side. Wherefore it is not permitted to what is to be infinite; for it is in need of nothing; while, if it were infinite, it would stand in need of everything. Page 136 - Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for, if his prayer were heard, all things would pass away. RP 2/d. 44. War is the father of all and the king of all ; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free. Page 79 - Just as our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air encompass the whole world. Page 394 - CHARTERIS. Canonicity ; or, Early Testimonies to the Existence and Use of the Books of the New Testament. Based on Kirchhoffer's 'Quellensammlung. Page 74 - Further, he says that in the beginning man was born from animals of a different species. His reason is that, "while other animals quickly find food for themselves, man alone requires a prolonged period of suckling. Hence, had he been originally such as he is now, he could never have survived. Page 185 - One path only is left for us to speak of, namely, that It is. In this path are very many tokens that what is is uncreated and indestructible; for it is complete, immovable, and without end. Nor was it ever, nor will it be; for now it is, all at once, a continuous one. Page 187 - And there is not, and never shall be, anything besides what is, since fate has chained it so as to be whole and immovable. Wherefore all these things are but names which mortals have given, believing them to be true — coming into being and passing away, being and not being, change of place and alteration of bright colour. Page 221 - There is a double becoming of perishable things and a double passing away. The coming together of all things brings one generation into being and destroys it; the other grows up and is scattered as things become divided. And these things never cease continually changing places, at one time all uniting in one through Love, at another each borne in different directions by the repulsion of Strife. Page 149 - Herakleitos says somewhere that all things pass and naught abides ; and, comparing things to the current of a river, he says that you cannot step twice into the same stream Page 185 - It needs must be that what can be thought and spoken of is; for it is possible for it to be, and it is not possible for what is nothing to be. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarNormal Science, Pathological Science and PsychometricsJoel Michell - THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY Space And Process*JM Blaut - 1961 - The Professional Geographer On Mexican Folk MedicineJohn M Ingham - 1970 - American Anthropologist Van Intuagen and the Possibility of GunkTHEODORE SIDER - 1993 - Analysis References from web pagesJOHN BURNET'S EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY, Section Index JSTOR: Early Greek Philosophy. Introducing Ancient Greek Philosophy (IAGP) The Online Books Page: Early Greek Philosophy, by John Burnet Greek philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Straipsniai CONCEPT OF GENERATION IN THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY The Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras of Plato: a New and Literal ... PRE-SOCRATICS presocratics.html John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy Bibliographic information |