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Studies in Early Greek Philosophy: A Collection of Papers and One Review

By J. , Mansfeld

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2018
ISBN
9004382062, 9789004382060
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1799274 bytes)
Series
Philosophia Antiqua 151
Pages
440\438
Time added
2018-12-18 19:45:22

Description

The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms. Introduction..............1 Chapter 1 Detheologization..............6 Chapter 2 Insight by Hindsight..............40 Chapter 3 Bothering the Infinite..............52 Another Attempt..............136 Chapter 5 Anaximenes Soul..............167 Chapter 6 Minima Parmenidea..............177 Chapter 7 Parmenides from Right to Left..............185

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