The Presocratic Philosophers - A Critical History with a Selection of Texts

Geoffrey Kirk, John Earle Raven

Cambridge University Press

1957

516 páginas

17h 12m

ISBN-10: B0007JI6N2

Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century it is based on a selection of some six hundred texts, in Greek and a close English translation which in this edition is given more prominence. These provide the basis for a detailed critical study of the principal individual thinkers of the time.