Authors: Jonathan Barnes, Various, Jonathan Barnes
ISBN-13: 9780140448153, ISBN-10: 0140448152
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: June 2002
Edition: Revised
Jonathan Barnes is professor of ancient philosophy at the University of Geneva. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Texas. His publications include The Presocratic Philosophers.
This anthology presents the early sages of Western philosophy and science who paved the way for Plato and Aristotle and their successors. Democritus's atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling "proofs" that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus's haunting and enigmatic epigrams-all form part of a revolution in human thought that relied on reasoning, forged the first scientific vocabulary, and laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Jonathan Barnes has painstakingly brought together the surviving Presocratic fragments in their original contexts, utilizing the latest research and a newly discovered major papyrus of Empedocles.
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Preface to the Second Edition | ||
Introduction | ||
Synopsis | ||
Note to the Reader | ||
1 | Precursors | 3 |
2 | Thales | 9 |
3 | Anaximander | 18 |
4 | Anaximenes | 24 |
5 | Pythagoras | 28 |
6 | Alcmaeon | 36 |
7 | Xenophanes | 40 |
8 | Heraclitus | 48 |
9 | Parmenides | 77 |
10 | Melissus | 92 |
11 | Zeno | 99 |
12 | Empedocles | 111 |
13 | Fifth-century Pythagoreanism | 162 |
14 | Hippasus | 174 |
15 | Philolaus | 176 |
16 | Ion of Chios | 182 |
17 | Hippo | 183 |
18 | Anaxagoras | 185 |
19 | Archelaus | 199 |
20 | Leucippus | 201 |
21 | Democritus | 203 |
22 | Diogenes of Apollonia | 254 |
App.: The Sources | 261 | |
Further Reading | 267 | |
Subject Index | 269 | |
Index of Quoted Texts | 274 | |
Index to Diels-Kranz B-Texts | 281 |