James Warren (1)
Auteur de Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates (Ancient Philosophies)
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A propos de l'auteur
James Warren is University Senior Lecturer in Classics, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, at the University of Cambridge
Séries
Œuvres de James Warren
Oeuvres associées
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXX: Summer 2006 (v. 30) (2006) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Democritus: Science, The Arts, and the Care of the Soul (Philosophia Antiqua) (2006) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Professions
- university lecturer
classicist
philosopher - Organisations
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 15
- Membres
- 177
- Popularité
- #121,427
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 42
- Langues
- 1
The author does well at showing what can be known from the fragments preserved from the Presocratics: Thales, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus and Leucippus, Philolaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia. He describes what can be known of their philosophies and the questions with which they grappled.
Even though the material can sometimes be challenging, the author does well at explaining the issues in a way most people will be able to understand. One is struck at how the issues discussed within philosophy from the beginning, in many ways, continue to the present day; the same basic issues about our reality and how we perceive that reality are discussed by later Greek philosophers and such discussions continue until now.
Therefore, the book is quite useful and relevant for the modern day reader. Worth consideration.… (plus d'informations)