TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sassi,Maria Michela
AU  - Asuni,Michele
TI  - The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
SN  - 9780691180502
AV  - B187.5 .S2713 2019
U1  - 180 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Pre-Socratic philosophers
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anaximander
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Empedocles
KW  - Francis MacDonald Cornford
KW  - Greek gods
KW  - Greek miracle
KW  - Greek philosophy
KW  - Greek thinkers
KW  - Heraclitus
KW  - Hesiod
KW  - Karl Popper
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Muses
KW  - Parmenides
KW  - Pherecydes of Syros
KW  - Presocratics
KW  - Thales
KW  - Theogony
KW  - Thetis
KW  - Xenophanes
KW  - archē
KW  - authorial voice
KW  - authority
KW  - celestial bodies
KW  - cosmogony
KW  - cosmos
KW  - critical thinking
KW  - egotism
KW  - epic poetry
KW  - geographic polycentrism
KW  - innovation
KW  - intellectual diversity
KW  - intellectual memory
KW  - intellectual world
KW  - knowledge
KW  - moral responsibility
KW  - muthos
KW  - myth
KW  - mythology
KW  - personal identity
KW  - philosophical rationality
KW  - philosophy
KW  - poetry
KW  - polis
KW  - prose
KW  - psuchē
KW  - rational argumentation
KW  - reason
KW  - salvation
KW  - soul
KW  - truth
KW  - writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; A note on this edition --; Introduction --; Chronological chart --; Chapter One. Thales, father of philosophy? --; Chapter Two. Philosophy in the Cosmogonies --; Chapter Three. Writing Experiments --; Chapter Four. Adventures of the Soul --; Chapter Five. Voices of Authority --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "Presocratics" to provide a richer understanding of the roots of what used to be called "the Greek miracle."The beginnings of the long process leading to philosophy were characterized by intellectual diversity and geographic polycentrism. In the sixth and fifth centuries BC, between the Asian shores of Ionia and the Greek city-states of southern Italy, thinkers started to reflect on the cosmic order, elaborate doctrines on the soul, write in solemn Homeric meter, or, later, abandon poetry for an assertive prose. And yet the Presocratics whether the Milesian natural thinkers, the rhapsode Xenophanes, the mathematician and "shaman" Pythagoras, the naturalist and seer Empedocles, the oracular Heraclitus, or the inspired Parmenides all shared an approach to critical thinking that, by questioning traditional viewpoints, revolutionized knowledge.A unique study that explores the full range of early Greek thinkers in the context of their worlds, the book also features a new introduction to the English edition in which the author discusses the latest scholarship on the subject
UR  - https://doi.org/10.23943/9781400889761?locatt=mode:legacy
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