A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the PythagoreansCambridge University Press, 1978 - 556 páginas All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness. |
Índice
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY | 1 |
THE BEGINNINGS OF PHILOSOPHY IN GREECE | 26 |
THE MILESIANS | 39 |
B Thales | 45 |
the eclipse | 46 |
2 Family | 50 |
4 Mathematics | 52 |
the unity of all things | 54 |
E Individual Pythagoreans | 319 |
1 Hippasus | 320 |
2 Petron | 322 |
3 Ecphantus | 323 |
4 Hicetas | 327 |
5 Philolaus | 329 |
6 Archytas | 333 |
Time and the Unlimited | 336 |
6 Mythical precursors | 58 |
7 Rationed explanations | 61 |
hylozoism | 62 |
science and myth | 67 |
water and life | 71 |
C Anaximander | 72 |
2 The Unlimited as arche | 76 |
3 The opposites | 78 |
4 The meaning of apeiron | 83 |
5 The apeiron divine | 87 |
6 Cosmogony and cosmology | 89 |
7 Origin of animal and human life | 101 |
8 Meteorology | 105 |
innumerable worlds | 106 |
D Anaximenes | 115 |
3 Unconscious presuppositions | 116 |
rarefaction and condensation | 119 |
5 Air life and divinity | 127 |
6 Cosmogony and cosmology | 132 |
7 Meteorology | 139 |
conclusion | 140 |
PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREANS | 146 |
A Difficulties | 148 |
B Methods of approach | 157 |
2 Fourthcentury sources excluding Aristotle and his pupils | 161 |
3 PostPlatonic sources | 169 |
4 The a priori method | 171 |
C Life of Pythagorean philosophy | 173 |
D Outline of the Pythagorean philosophy | 181 |
1 Man and his place in nature | 182 |
2 Numbers and the cosmos | 212 |
Speed and pitch | 226 |
Aristotles evidence for the general nature of the doctrine | 229 |
the generation of things from numbers | 239 |
d Cosmology | 282 |
e Abstractions as numbers | 301 |
3 The nature of the soul | 306 |
ALCMAEON | 341 |
XENOPHANES | 360 |
1 Date and life | 362 |
2 Social and political outlook | 364 |
3 Writings | 365 |
4 Tradition | 366 |
5 Destructive criticism | 370 |
6 Constructive theology | 373 |
7 God identified with the world | 381 |
8 All creatures born from earth | 383 |
9 Alternation of wet and dry ages | 387 |
10 Astronomy and meteorology | 390 |
11 Theory of knowledge | 395 |
12 Conclusion | 401 |
HERACLITUS | 403 |
2 Sources | 405 |
3 Writings | 406 |
4 Date and life | 408 |
5 Obscurity and contempt for mankind | 410 |
6 Prophetic character | 413 |
7 Relation to earlier thinkers | 415 |
selfsearch | 416 |
9 The Logos | 419 |
10 Three basic statements | 435 |
b Everything is in continuous motion and change | 449 |
c The world an everliving fire | 454 |
fire and soul | 459 |
the concept of measure | 464 |
theology | 469 |
14 Religion and the fate of the soul | 473 |
15 Astronomy and meteorology | 482 |
16 Conclusion | 486 |
The riverstatement | 488 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, The Earlier Presocratics and the ... W. K. C. Guthrie Vista previa restringida - 1962 |
A History of Greek Philosophy: The earlier Presocratics and Pythagoreans William Keith Chambers Guthrie Vista de fragmentos - 1967 |
A History of Greek Philosophy: The earlier Presocratics and Pythagoreans William Keith Chambers Guthrie Vista de fragmentos - 1967 |
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