The Presocratic Philosophers by Barnes, Jonathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Preface Preface to the Revised Edition Note On Citations Prologue

I. The Springs of Reason

(a) The Art of Thinking (b) Thales On Magnets and Water (c) Tradition and Interpretation

Eden

II. Anaximander On Nature

(a) Pantological Knowledge (b) The Origin of Species (c) The Earth At Rest (d) Tò άπϵʟροv

III. Science and Speculation

(a) Material Monism (b) Anaximenes and Air (c) Fairy Tales or Science? (d) The Use of Analogy

IV. The Natural Philosophy of Heraclitus

(a) The Great Account (b) Nature’s Bonfire (c) All Things Are a Flowing (d) A World of Contradictions (e) Sage Heraclitus?

V. The Divine Philosophy of Xenophanes

(a) A Wandering Minstrel (b) Summa Theologiae (c) Theology and Science

VI. Pythagoras and the Soul

(a) Ipse Dixit (b) The Progress of the Soul (c) Metempsychosis, Mysticism and Logic (d) Selves and Bodies (e) Intimations of Immortality

VII. The Moral Law

(a) First Steps In Ethics (b) Eating People Is Wrong (c) Heraclitus and the Laws of God

VIII. The Principles of Human Knowledge

(a) The Origins of Scepticism (b) The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge

The Serpent

IX. Parmenides and the Objects of Inquiry

(a) Parmenides’ Journey (b) At the Crossroads (c) The Paths of Ignorance (d) Gorgias On What Is Not Appendix: A Formalization of Parmenides’argument

X. Being and Becoming

(a) Parmenidean Metaphysics (b) Melissus ‘Metaphysics (c) On Generation and Destruction (d) Being and Time (e) Eternity (f) The Logic of Becoming

XI. Stability and Change

(a) The Limits of the World (b) The Eleatic One (c) Homogeneity (d) Wholeness (e) Change and Decay (f) The Void (g) Corporeal Being (h) The Philosophy of Elea

XII. Zeno: Paradox and Plurality

(a) The Eleatic Palamedes (b) Large and Small (c) Existence (d) Infinite Division (e) The Toils of Infinity (f) The Totality of Things (g) One and Many (h) The Paradox of Place (i) The Millet Seed

XIII. Zeno: Paradox and Progression

(a) Sprightly Running (b) Infinity Again (c) Achilles and the Tortoise (d) The Arrow (e) Movement In a Moment (f) The Arrow Blunted (g) The Stadium (h) A Most Ingenious Paradox? (i) Two Last Remarks

XIV. The Ports of Knowledge Closed

(a) Parmenides On Sense and Reason (b) Melissus On Perception

Paradise Regained

XV. The Ionian Revival

(a) A Few Depressing Facts (b) Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle (c) Four Blind Alleys (d) Five Through Roads

XVI. Anaxagoras and the Nature of Stuffs

(a) Outlines of Anaxagoreanism (b) The Nature of Things (c) The Seeds of the World (d) Elements and Compounds (e) Inherent Powers (f) Anaxagoras and Infinity (g) The Vortex

XVII. The Corpuscularian Hypothesis

(a) The Origins of Atomism (b) Atoms Characterized (c) Fractured Atoms? (d) Bodies Without Number (e) Infinite Variety (f) Atomic Weight and Motion (g) Atomic Indifference (h) The Status of Sensible Qualities (i) The Philosophy of Abdera

XVIII. Philolaus and the Formal Cause

(a) Pythagorean Numerology (b) The Philosophy of Philolaus (c) Shape and Number (d) The Harmony of Things

XIX. The Logic of Locomotion

(a) Empedocles Andantiperistasis (b) The Atomists and the Void (c) Anaxagoras and Mind (d) Causas Cognoscere Rerum (e) Agents and Purposes (f) Chance and Necessity

XX. The Neo-Ionian World Picture

(a) Scientific Explanation (b) Locomotion (c) Alteration (d) Generation (e) Ontology

XXI. The Sophists

(a) Anthropology (b) The Origins of Atheism (c) The Aetiology of Religious Beliefs (d) Poetics (e) Language and Nature (f) Gorgias On Communication

XXII. De Anima

(a) Material Beginnings (b) Empedoclean Psychology (c) The Soul As Harmony (d) Metempsychosis and Immortality (e) Was Empedocles a Centaur? (f) The Whirligig of Time

XXIII. Conduct Unbecoming

(a) Antiphon and Moral Anarchy (b) The Dissoi Logoi and Moral Relativism (c) Gorgias and Moral Irresponsibility (d) Democritean Ethics

XXIV. The Bounds of Knowledge

(a) Neo-Ionian Empiricism (b) Protagoras; Man the Measure (c) Knowledge and Relativity (d) ‘Isonomia’ (e) Democritean Scepticism

Epilogue

XXV. The Last of the Line

(a) Diogenes the Eclectic (b) Monism Revived (c) The Matter of the Universe (d) Immanent Will and Its Designs

Appendix A: Sources Appendix B: Chronology Notes

I. The Springs of Reason II. Anaximander On Nature III. Science and Speculation IV. The Natural Philosophy of Heraclitus V. The Divine Philosophy of Xenophanes VI. Pythagoras and the Soul VII. The Moral Law VIII. The Principles of Human Knowledge IX. Parmenides and the Objects of Enquiry X. Being and Becoming XI. Stability and Change XII. Zeno: Paradox and Plurality XIII. Zeno: Paradox and Progression XIV. The Ports of Knowledge Closed XV. The Ionian Revival XVI. Anaxagoras and the Nature of Stuffs XVII. The Corpuscularian Hypothesis XVIII. Philolaus and the Formal Cause XIX. The Logic of Locomotion XX. The Neo-Ionian World Picture XXI. The Sophists XXII. De Anima XXIII. Conduct Unbecoming XXIV. The Bounds of Knowledge XXV. The Last of the Line

Bibliography (Revised 1981)

A: General

I: Texts II: Source Criticism III: General Histories IV: Monographs V: Anthologies VI: Collected Papers VII: Bibliography

B: Particular

Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV

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