ABSTRACT

Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover:

  • The nature of Presocratic thought
  • The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics
  • The earliest philosophers up to Heraclitus

chapter III|14 pages

Cornford's Principium Sapientiae *

chapter VI|24 pages

Back to the Presocratics *

chapter VII|24 pages

Popper on Science and the Presocratics

chapter IX|16 pages

Aristotle as Historian

chapter XII|27 pages

Some Problems in Anaximander

chapter XIII|32 pages

The Pythagoreans and Greek Mathematics

chapter XV|17 pages

On Heraclitus *