# Early Greek Philosophy

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- Authors: [Jonathan Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-barnes)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-08-26

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Early Greek Philosophy

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-815-3
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2004-08-26
- Language: en_GB