A Presocratics Reader
Subtitle: Selected Fragments and Testimonia
By: edited, with introduction, by Patricia Curd ; translated by Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.
Contributors: Curd, Patricia, 1949-; McKirahan, Richard D.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: P.O. Box 44937 Indianapolis, Indiana, 46244-0937 USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Pre-Socratic philosophers
Description: Ideal for a two-to-three week introduction to the Presocratics and Sophists, this volume offers a selection of the extant remains of early Greek philosophical thought on cosmology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, together with unobtrusive, minimally interpretive editorial material: an Introduction, brief headnotes, maps, and a concordance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: References; title: Maps; title: Time Line; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: The Milesians; title: Thales; title: Anaximander; title: Anaximenes; title: Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism; title: Philolaus; title: Xenophanes; title: Heraclitus; title: Parmenides; title: The Pluralists: Anaxagoras and Empedocles; title: Anaxagoras; title: Empedocles; title: Zeno of Elea; title: Atomism: Leucippus and Democritus; title: Melissus; title: Diogenes of Apollonia; title: The Sophists; title: Protagoras; title: Gorgias; title: Antiphon; title: Critias; title: Suggestions for Further Reading; title: Concordance and Sources