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Herodotus in His Intellectual Setting (on Kingsley, Herodotus and the Presocratics)
HistosCharles Chiasson
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2023
Abstract Given the fact that our reconstruction of the Presocratic doctrines and the access to their original meaning are intrinsically tied to Latin philosophical or philosophizing authors, this chapter focuses on three contemporaneous writers (Philodemus of Gadara, Lucretius, Cicero), in whose works can be identified some sort of a ...
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Abstract Given the fact that our reconstruction of the Presocratic doctrines and the access to their original meaning are intrinsically tied to Latin philosophical or philosophizing authors, this chapter focuses on three contemporaneous writers (Philodemus of Gadara, Lucretius, Cicero), in whose works can be identified some sort of a ...
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2007
The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides account that there is only one unchanging existent to the ...
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The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides account that there is only one unchanging existent to the ...
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2001
AbstractIn this chapter, Hankinson considers the contributions to the explanation of nature of each of the major Presocratic figures. Following a brief sketch of the cosmogonies of Homer and Hesiod, Hankinson discusses the Milesian thinkers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, focussing on the presence in their thought of notions such as material ...
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AbstractIn this chapter, Hankinson considers the contributions to the explanation of nature of each of the major Presocratic figures. Following a brief sketch of the cosmogonies of Homer and Hesiod, Hankinson discusses the Milesian thinkers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, focussing on the presence in their thought of notions such as material ...
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Mnemosyne, 1948
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Melissus frag. 2 runs as follows: dte t????? ??? ????et?, ?st? te ?a? ae? ?? ?a? ae? ?sta? ?a? a???? ??? ??e? ??d? te?e?t??, ???' ?pe???? ?st??. e? ??? ?a? ????et?, a???? a? e??e? (???at? ?a? a? p?t? ?????e???) ?a? te?e?t?? (?te?e?t?se ?a? a? p?t? ?????e???)? dte d? ??te ???at? ??te ?te?e?t?se? ?e? te ?? ?a? ?e? ?sta?, ??? ??e? a???? ??d? te?e?t?? ? ??
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The foundations of presocratic atomism
1999Abstract Why should one believe in the existence of atoms? Nowadays we are inclined to think that only explanatory considerations could justify such a belief; atoms are entities posited in order to explain the phenomena, such as the qualities and changes of visible objects.
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2018
The Presocratics were the first Western philosophers. The most celebrated are Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and Democritus. Active in Greece throughout the sixth and fifth centuries bc, they concentrated on cosmogony and cosmology – the tasks of explaining the world’s origin and order ...
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The Presocratics were the first Western philosophers. The most celebrated are Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and Democritus. Active in Greece throughout the sixth and fifth centuries bc, they concentrated on cosmogony and cosmology – the tasks of explaining the world’s origin and order ...
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