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Sto caricando le informazioni... The first philosophers : the presocratics and sophists (edizione 2000)di Robin Waterfield (Traduttore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics) di Robin Waterfield (Translator)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This volume contains translations of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancients sources, supplemented by lucid commentary. PRIMEROS FILOSOFOS Robin Waterfield (1952) impartió la enseñanza en varias universidades inglesas. Ha traducido gran parte de los diálogos de Platón, de las tragedias de Eurípides, las Vidas paralelas de Plutarco y la Historia de Heródoto, entre otras obras clásicas del griego, y ha escrito una historia de Atenas y estudios sobre Platón y Sócrates. Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their... nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought.Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientifictask. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers orscientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists' reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy.This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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