Presocratics: Natural Philosophers Before Socrates Volume 2

by James Warren

Book Overview

The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It also saw the development of a wide range of radical and challenging ideas, from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account of one unchanging existence to the development of an atomist theory of the physical world. This general account of the Presocratics introduces the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253698
• ISBN13: 9780520253698
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"