Title:
Presocratic philosophy : a very short introduction / Catherine Osborne.
Author:
Rowett, Catherine.
ISBN:
9780192840943
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
144 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Content Type:
text
Media Type (RDA):
unmediated
Carrier Type:
volume
Series:
Very short introductions
Very short introductions.
Contents:
Lost words, forgotten worlds -- Puzzles about first principles -- Zeno's tortoise -- Reality and appearance : more adventures in metaphysics -- Heraclitus -- Pythagoras and other mysteries -- Spin doctors of the 5th century.
Abstract:
"Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, and to try to reconstruct the moves that they were making, to support stories that Western philosophers and historians of philosophy like to tell about their past. This book covers the invention of western philosophy: introducing to us the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004042979-d.html.
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Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2004042979-b.html
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