The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays

Published by Princeton University Press 1994

The Pre-Socratics

A Collection of Critical Essays

Edited by: Alexander P.D. Mourelatos

Volume 156 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400863204

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This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. "Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public."--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology "Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better."--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World "The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject."--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences "[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics."--David E. Hahm, Isis

Originally published in 1994.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface (1974) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Editor's Supplement to the Princeton University Press Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Addenda to the Selective Bibliography: I973~I993 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxix
Editor's Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Concept Studies
1. Nous, Noein, and their Derivatives in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Excluding Anaxagoras) Kurt von Fritz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Qualitative Change in Pre-Socratic Philosophy W. A. Heidel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
II. Ionian Beginnings
3 Anaximander's Fragment: The Universe Governed by Law Charles H. Kahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
4. Xenophanes' Empiricism and His Critique of Knowledge (B34) Hermann Frankel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
III. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism
5. Mysticism And Science in the Pythagorean Tradition F. M. Comford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6 Pythagorean Philosophy Before Plato Charles H. Kahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
IV. Heraclitus
7. Natural Change in Heraclitus G. S. Kirk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
8. Flux And Logos in Heraclitus W. K. C. Guthrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
9. A Thought Pattern in Heraclitus Hermann Frdnkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
10. Paradox, Simile, and Gnomic Utterance in Heraclitus Uνο Hölscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
V. Parmenides
11. Elements of Eleatic Ontology Montgomery Furth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
12. Plato and Parmenides on the Timeless Present G. E. L. Owen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
13. The Relation Between the two Parts of Parmenides' Poem Karl Reinhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
14. The Deceptive Words of Parmenides' "Doxa" Alexander P. D. Mourelatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
VI. Zeno of Elea
15. Zeno and Indivisible Magnitudes David J. Furley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
16. The Tradition About Zeno of Elea Re-Examined Friedrich Solmsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	368
VII. Empedocles
17. Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle in the 'Sixties A. A. Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
18. Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles' Doctrine of the Soul Charles H. Kahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	426
VIII. Anaxagoras and the Atomists
19. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras Gregory Vlastos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
20 Anaxagoras and the Concept of Matter Before Aristotle G. B. Kerferd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
21 The Atomists' Reply to the Eleatics David J. Furley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	504
Selective Bibliography (1974) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543

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