The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy

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Title:

The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy

Author:

Long, A. A.

ISBN:

9780521446679

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Physical Description:

xxx, 427 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Contents:

1. The scope of early Greek philosophy / A. A. Long -- 2. Sources / Jaap Mansfeld -- 3. The beginnings of cosmology / Keimpe Algra -- 4. The Pythagorean tradition / Carl A. Huffman -- 5. Heraclitus / Edward Hussey -- 6. Parmenides and Melissus / David Sedley -- 7. Zeno / Richard D. McKirahan, Jr. -- 8. Empedocles and Anaxagoras: Responses to Parmenides / Daniel W. Graham -- 9. The atomists / C. C. W. Taylor -- 10. Rational theology / Sarah Broadie -- 11. Early interest in knowledge / J. H. Lesher -- 12. Soul, sensation, and thought / Andre Laks -- 13. Culpability, responsibility, cause: Philosophy, historiography, and medicine in the fifth century / Mario Vegetti -- 14. Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias / Paul Woodruff -- 15. Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice / Fernanda Decleva Caizzi -- 16. The poetics of early Greek philosophy / Glenn W. Most.

Subject Term:

Philosophy, Ancient.

Added Author:

Long, A. A.

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Summary

The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistemology, psychology, rhetoric and relativism, justice, and poetics. A chapter on causality extends the focus to include historians and medical writers.