Philosophy Before Socrates
An Introduction with Texts and Commentary
$58.03
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2011
Summary
Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan’s Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy. It provides a wide survey of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and Sophists of the fifth century. A comprehensive selection of fragments and testimonia, translated by the author, is presented in the context of a thorough and accessible discussion. An introductory chapter …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781603841825 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1603841822 |
| Author: | Richard D. McKirahan |
| Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Imprint: | Hackett Publishing Co, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 154mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
On the First Edition: McKirahan has written a comprehensive guide which steers totally clear of either simplification or mystification. Philosophy Before Socrates combines impeccable translations of the primary texts with commentary that is historically responsible and philosophically stimulating, firm guidance with unobtrusiveness. He encourages his readers to think for themselves, but he gives them a great deal of help in the way of background information, scholarly aids, and skillful dissection of competing interpretations. What stands out above all is the up-to-date scholarship and analytical acumen, the sensitivity to social context and the accessibility. The book is a great achievement: it will rapidly establish itself as the standard course-text for introducing students to early Greek philosophy. –A. A. Long, Professor of Classics and Irving G. Stone Professor of Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Richard D. McKirahan
Richard D. McKirahan is Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College.
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