- Published: 10 February 2003
- ISBN: 9780140448153
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $26.00
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Early Greek Philosophy
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A key anthology of early Western thought
The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary atomic theories of Democritus; the haunting and enigmatic epigrams of Heraclitus; and the maxims of Alcmaeon: fragmentary as they often are, the thoughts of these philosophers seem strikingly modern in their concern to forge a truly scientific vocabulary and way of reasoning.
- Published: 10 February 2003
- ISBN: 9780140448153
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $26.00
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