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The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno's dizzying 'proofs' that motion is impossible; the extraordinary atomic theories of Democritus; the haunting and enigmatic epigrams of Heraclitus; and, the maxims of Alcmaeon: fragmentary as they often are, the thoughts of these philosophers seem strikingly modern in their concern to forge a truly scientific vocabulary and way of reasoning.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Early Greek Philosophy
• Author: Johnathon Barnes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780140448153
• ISBN: 0140448152
• ID: 04024540
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 244 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 130 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 2002

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