Heraclitus and Thales' Conceptual Scheme : a Historical Study
Subtitle: A Historical Study
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9789004337992
Subjects: Heraclitus, of ephesus; Jerusalem, history
Description: Aryeh Finkelberg offers an alternative to the traditional teleological interpretation of early Greek thought. Instead of explaining it as targeted at later results, viz. philosophy, as this thought was first conceptualized by Aristotle and has been regarded ever since, the author seeks to determine its intended meaning by restoring it to its historical context as evinced, inter alia, by epigraphic and papyrological evidence, in particular, the Gold Leaves, the Olbian bone plates, and the Derveni papyrus. This approach, together with a considerable amount of hitherto unidentified or largely disregarded evidence, yields a picture of early Greek thought significantly different from the traditional history of 'Presocratic philosophy'.