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The first philosophers : the pre-Socratics and sophists

2000
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This title examines the first philosophers. Through Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic.
Main title:
The first philosophers : the pre-Socratics and sophists / translated with commentary by Robin Waterfield.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Collation:
xlvi, 354p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxiv-xl) and index.Translated from the Ancient Greek.
ISBN:
9780192824547 (pbk)
Dewey class:
182A182FIR
Language:
English
BRN:
414279
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