ABSTRACT
This unique collection of essays, published together for the first time, not only elucidates the complexity of ancient Greek thought, but also reveals Karl Popper's engagement with Presocratic philosophy and the enlightenment he experienced in his reading of Parmenides. As Karl Popper himself states himself in his introduction, he was inspired to write about Presocratic philosophy for two reasons - firstly to illustrate the thesis that all history is the history of problem situations and secondly, to show the greatness of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philosophy, its science and its humanism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Introduction
Aristotle's invention of induction and the eclipse of Presocratic cosmology
chapter 6|41 pages
The World of Parmenides
Notes on Parmenides' poem and its origin in early Greek cosmology
chapter 10|9 pages
Concluding Remarks on Support and Countersupport
How induction becomes counterinduction, and the epagōgē returns to the elenchus