The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek PhilosophyA. A. Long The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics. All these thinkers are discussed in this volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on specific topics. |
Contents
The scope of early Greek philosophy | 1 |
Sources | 22 |
The beginnings of cosmology | 45 |
The Pythagorean tradition | 66 |
Heraclitus | 88 |
Parmenides and Melissus | 113 |
Zeno | 134 |
Empedocles and Anaxagoras Responses to Parmenides | 159 |
Early interest in knowledge | 225 |
Soul sensation and thought | 250 |
Culpability responsibility cause Philosophy historiography and medicine in the fifth century | 271 |
Rhetoric and relativism Protagoras and Gorgias | 290 |
Protagoras and Antiphon Sophistic debates on justice | 311 |
The poetics of early Greek philosophy | 332 |
Bibliography | 363 |
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