Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Two pictures of the world
- 2 The judgement of Socrates
- 3 The beginning in Miletus
- 4 Two philosophical critics: Heraclitus and Parmenides
- 5 Pythagoras, Parmenides, and later cosmology
- 6 Anaxagoras
- 7 Empedocles and the invention of elements
- 8 Later Eleatic critics
- 9 Leucippus and Democritus
- 10 The cosmos of the Atomists
- 11 The anthropology of the Atomists
- 12 Plato's criticisms of the materialists
- 13 Aristotle's criticisms of the materialists
- Bibliography
- Index of passages
- General index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Two pictures of the world
- 2 The judgement of Socrates
- 3 The beginning in Miletus
- 4 Two philosophical critics: Heraclitus and Parmenides
- 5 Pythagoras, Parmenides, and later cosmology
- 6 Anaxagoras
- 7 Empedocles and the invention of elements
- 8 Later Eleatic critics
- 9 Leucippus and Democritus
- 10 The cosmos of the Atomists
- 11 The anthropology of the Atomists
- 12 Plato's criticisms of the materialists
- 13 Aristotle's criticisms of the materialists
- Bibliography
- Index of passages
- General index
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- The Greek Cosmologists , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987