| Description | | - A colourful and authoritative introduction to presocratic philosophy
- Uses as a starting point, the recent findings of the ancient papyrus fragment carrying a poem by the Greek magician and philosopher Empedocles
- Discusses early Greek philosophy thematically rather than chronologically
- There is no other books on the subject at this level and price
- Part of the VSI series; nearly 1 million VSIs have been sold
| This is a book about the invention of Western philosophy, and the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins with the finding of the new papyrus fragment of Empedocles' poem, and uses the story of its discovery and interpretation to highlight the way our understanding of early philosophers is marked by their presentation in
later sources.
Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the presocratics, even though we have very few of their writings left. In this book, Catherine Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, to try to fill in the bits of a jigsaw that has been
rejigged many times and in many different ways.
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Readership: General readers with an interest in the history or origins of philosophy and speculative ideas; undergraduates starting presocratics courses in philosophy or classics; students studying later periods of ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, etc); students taking history of science or ancient science modules; students and general readers interested in Heidegger, Hegel, Nietzsche, Popper and others who discuss presocratic philosophy as an inspiration in their work; classicists working on history or literature of the sixth and fifth centuries BC.
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Catherine Osborne, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia, Norwich
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