The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy / edited by A.A. Long. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy / edited by A.A. Long. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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1 online resource (xxx, 427 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Scope of early Greek philosophy / A.A. Long -- Sources / Jaap Mansfeld -- Beginnings of cosmology / Keimpe Algra -- Pythagorean tradition / Carl A. Huffman -- Heraclitus / Edward Hussey -- Parmenides and Melissus / David Sedley -- Zeno / Richard D. McKirahan, Jr. -- Empedocles and Anaxagoras : respo...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
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1999.
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The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discusse...
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The Cambridge companion to early Greek philosophy / edited by A.A. Long. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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182
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991023962506202626
