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The Pre-Socratics : A Collection of Critical Essays / ed. by Alexander P.D. Mourelatos.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 156Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (608 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691608273
  • 9781400863204
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 182
LOC classification:
  • B188 .P69 1993
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Permissions -- Contents -- Preface (1974) -- Abbreviations -- Editor's Supplement to the Princeton University Press Edition -- Addenda to the Selective Bibliography: I973~I993 -- Editor's Introduction -- I. Concept Studies -- 1. Nous, Noein, and their Derivatives in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Excluding Anaxagoras) -- 2. Qualitative Change in Pre-Socratic Philosophy -- II. Ionian Beginnings -- 3 Anaximander's Fragment: The Universe Governed by Law -- 4. Xenophanes' Empiricism and His Critique of Knowledge (B34) -- III. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism -- 5. Mysticism And Science in the Pythagorean Tradition -- 6 Pythagorean Philosophy Before Plato -- IV. Heraclitus -- 7. Natural Change in Heraclitus -- 8. Flux And Logos in Heraclitus -- 9. A Thought Pattern in Heraclitus -- 10. Paradox, Simile, and Gnomic Utterance in Heraclitus -- V. Parmenides -- 11. Elements of Eleatic Ontology -- 12. Plato and Parmenides on the Timeless Present -- 13. The Relation Between the two Parts of Parmenides' Poem -- 14. The Deceptive Words of Parmenides' "Doxa" -- VI. Zeno of Elea -- 15. Zeno and Indivisible Magnitudes -- 16. The Tradition About Zeno of Elea Re-Examined -- VII. Empedocles -- 17. Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle in the 'Sixties -- 18. Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles' Doctrine of the Soul -- VIII. Anaxagoras and the Atomists -- 19. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras -- 20 Anaxagoras and the Concept of Matter Before Aristotle -- 21 The Atomists' Reply to the Eleatics -- Selective Bibliography (1974) -- Indexes
Summary: This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. "Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public."--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology "Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better."--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World "The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject."--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences "[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics."--David E. Hahm, IsisOriginally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Permissions -- Contents -- Preface (1974) -- Abbreviations -- Editor's Supplement to the Princeton University Press Edition -- Addenda to the Selective Bibliography: I973~I993 -- Editor's Introduction -- I. Concept Studies -- 1. Nous, Noein, and their Derivatives in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Excluding Anaxagoras) -- 2. Qualitative Change in Pre-Socratic Philosophy -- II. Ionian Beginnings -- 3 Anaximander's Fragment: The Universe Governed by Law -- 4. Xenophanes' Empiricism and His Critique of Knowledge (B34) -- III. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism -- 5. Mysticism And Science in the Pythagorean Tradition -- 6 Pythagorean Philosophy Before Plato -- IV. Heraclitus -- 7. Natural Change in Heraclitus -- 8. Flux And Logos in Heraclitus -- 9. A Thought Pattern in Heraclitus -- 10. Paradox, Simile, and Gnomic Utterance in Heraclitus -- V. Parmenides -- 11. Elements of Eleatic Ontology -- 12. Plato and Parmenides on the Timeless Present -- 13. The Relation Between the two Parts of Parmenides' Poem -- 14. The Deceptive Words of Parmenides' "Doxa" -- VI. Zeno of Elea -- 15. Zeno and Indivisible Magnitudes -- 16. The Tradition About Zeno of Elea Re-Examined -- VII. Empedocles -- 17. Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle in the 'Sixties -- 18. Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles' Doctrine of the Soul -- VIII. Anaxagoras and the Atomists -- 19. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras -- 20 Anaxagoras and the Concept of Matter Before Aristotle -- 21 The Atomists' Reply to the Eleatics -- Selective Bibliography (1974) -- Indexes

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This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. "Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public."--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology "Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better."--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World "The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject."--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences "[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics."--David E. Hahm, IsisOriginally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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