Early Greek Philosophy, Volume III: Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 2 (Loeb Classical Library)
by André Laks
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The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the material's show more thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the edition. Volumes II-III include chapters on ancient doxography, background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes IV-V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo. Volumes VI-VII comprise later philosophical systems and their aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII-IX present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics, and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama. show lessTags
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Volume III of this series is similar to Volume II, except that there is a lot more material related to the two philosophers covered in this volume, so one feels that they are getting a much more accurate understanding of Xenophanes and especially Heraclitus than one had with any of the philosophers covered in Volume II. It is also good to use these volumes along with other resources, such as W.K.C. Guthrie's "A History of Greek Philosoph VI - The earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans" to get a better understanding of these philosophers and the development of early Greek philosophy.
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- Xenophanes; Heraclitus, ca. 540-ca. 470 BC
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