The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary atomic theories of Democritus; the haunting and enigmatic epigrams of Heraclitus; and the maxims of Alcmaeon: fragmentary as they often are, the thoughts of these philosophers seem strikingly modern in their concern to forge a truly scientific vocabulary and way of reasoning.
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- Paperback | 336 pages
- 129 x 198 x 15mm | 234g
- 01 Dec 2002
- Penguin Books Ltd
- PENGUIN CLASSICS
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- Revised
- 2nd ed.
- index
- 0140448152
- 9780140448153
- 28,252
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