Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece (eBook)

Maria Michela Sassi (Autor)

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2018
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8976-1 (ISBN)

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A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "e;Presocratics"e; to provide a richer understanding of the roots of what used to be called "e;the Greek miracle."e;The beginnings of the long process leading to philosophy were characterized by intellectual diversity and geographic polycentrism. In the sixth and fifth centuries BC, between the Asian shores of Ionia and the Greek city-states of southern Italy, thinkers started to reflect on the cosmic order, elaborate doctrines on the soul, write in solemn Homeric meter, or, later, abandon poetry for an assertive prose. And yet the Presocratics whether the Milesian natural thinkers, the rhapsode Xenophanes, the mathematician and "e;shaman"e; Pythagoras, the naturalist and seer Empedocles, the oracular Heraclitus, or the inspired Parmenides all shared an approach to critical thinking that, by questioning traditional viewpoints, revolutionized knowledge.A unique study that explores the full range of early Greek thinkers in the context of their worlds, the book also features a new introduction to the English edition in which the author discusses the latest scholarship on the subject.

Autor

Maria Michela Sassi teaches the history of ancient philosophy at the University of Pisa. Her books include The Science of Man in Ancient Greece.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2018
• Übersetzer: Michele Asuni
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Acusilaus • Alcmaeon of Croton • Alcman • ALL THINGS • Ambiguity • Analogy • Anaxagoras • Anaximander • Anaximenes • Anecdote • Apeiron (cosmology) • Apollonian and Dionysian • Archē • Archilochus • Aristotle • authorial voice • authority • celestial bodies • Certainty • Charmides (dialogue) • Chronos • Classical element • Concept • cosmogony • Cosmos • creation myth • critical thinking • Criticism • Democritus • Derveni Papyrus • Dialectic • Digression • Diogenes of Apollonia • Edition (book) • egotism • Empedocles • Empiricism • Epic Poetry • Epimenides • Epistemology • Euripides • Explanation • Font Bureau • Francis MacDonald Cornford • Genre • geographic polycentrism • Greek gods • Greek medicine • Greek miracle • Greek Philosophy • Greek thinkers • Hellenistic period • Heraclitus • Herodotus • Hesiod • Hexameter • Historiography • Homer • hypothesis • Immutability (theology) • inference • Innovation • Inquiry • intellectual diversity • intellectual memory • intellectual world • Ionians • Jean-Pierre Vernant • Karl Popper • Knowledge • Literature • Marduk • Metaphor • Metaphysics • Metempsychosis • moral responsibility • Muse • Muses • muthos • Myth • Mythology • Narration • narrative • Natural order (philosophy) • Natural Philosophy • Natural science • Oceanus • On the Heavens • On the Soul • Parmenides • Personal Identity • phenomenon • Pherecydes of Syros • Philosopher • philosophical rationality • Philosophy • Poetry • Polemic • Polis • Prerogative • Pre-Socratic Philosophy • Presocratics • Principle • Prose • psuchē • Pythagoras • Pythagoreanism • rational argumentation • Rationality • reason • rhapsode • Salvation • Scientist • Scotch Roman • Sophist • Soul • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Thales • Theogony • Theology • theory • Theory of Forms • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • Thetis • The Various • Thought • Thucydides • Timaeus (dialogue) • treatise • Truth • Writing • Writing Style • Xenophanes
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8976-6 / 1400889766
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8976-1 / 9781400889761