Studies in Presocratic Philosophy Volume 1 [Paperback]

Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover:

• The nature of Presocratic thought
• The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics
• The earliest philosophers up to Heraclitus

1. The Characteristics and Effects of Pre-Socratic Philosophy H. F. Cherniss 2. Was the Ionian Philosophy Scientific? F. M. Cornford3. Review of F. M. Cornford: Principium Sapientiae Gregory Vlastos4. Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies Gregory Vlastos5. Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought Gregory Vlastos6. Back to the Prescoratics Karl Popper7. Popper on Science and the Presocratics G. S. Kirk8. Theoprastus on the Presocratic Causes J. B. McDiarmid9. Aristotle As Historian W. K. C. Guthrie10. Hot and Cold, Dry and Wet in Early Greek Thought G. E. R. Lloyd11. Anaximander and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy Uvo H?lscher12. Some Problems in Anaximander G. S. Kirk13. The Pythagoreans and Greek Mathematics W. A. Heidel14. The Discovery of Incommensurability by Hippasus of Metapontum Kurt von Fritz15. On Heraclitus Gregory Vlastos

...extremely useful for anyone concerned with the study of the Presocratics. Philosophy

David John Furley was a Greco-Roman scholar, taught at University College London 1947-1966; Professor of Classics 1966-74, Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Princeton University 1974-1992; Fellow, British Academy