The First Philosophers
Subtitle: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 18, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780192824547
First sentence: It makes sense to group Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes together, though the idea that they were a 'school', and formed master-pupil relationships, is certainly a distortion, based on the later desire to systematize which bedevils Presocratic studies in various ways.