Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology: A Study of Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides

by Shaul Tor

Book Overview

This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it rethinks fundamentally the emergence of systematic epistemology and reflection on speculative inquiry in Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Shaul Tor argues that different forms of reasoning, and different models of divine disclosure, play equally integral, harmonious and mutually illuminating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009069845
• ISBN13: 9781009069847
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"