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Title:

Presocratic philosophy : a very short introduction / Catherine Osborne.

Author:

Rowett, Catherine.

ISBN:

9780192840943

Personal Author:

Rowett, Catherine.

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.

Subject Term:

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2004042979-b.html

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This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins with the finding of the new papyrus fragment of Empedocles' poem, and uses the story of its discovery and interpretation to highlight the way our understanding of early philosophers is marked by their presentation in later sources.Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the presocratics, even though we have very few of their writings left. In this book, Catherine Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, to try to fill in the bits of a jigsaw that has been rejigged many times and in many different ways.

Author Notes

Catherine Osborne is lecturer in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. She recently moved from her position as Reader in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies at the University of Liverpool, and was previously a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. Her publications include Rethinking Early Greek Philosophy, and Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love , as well as the chapter on Heraclitus in the Routledge History of Philosophy, volume 1 and articles on a wide range of issues in Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Early Christian period.

List of illustrations	p. viii
Map	p. xi
Timelines	p. xii
A note on the pronunciation	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xv
1 Lost words, forgotten worlds	p. 1
2 Puzzles about first principles	p. 29
3 Zeno's tortoise	p. 51
4 Reality and appearance: more adventures in metaphysics	p. 61
5 Heraclitus	p. 80
6 Pythagoras and other mysteries	p. 97
7 Spin doctors of the 5th century	p. 112
Epilogue	p. 133
Further reading	p. 136
Index	p. 141

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