This title calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the analytic and continental traditions - that the 'pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology is dismantl…
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Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology wil…
This collection of essays is addressed to the growing number of philosophers, classicists, and intellectual historians who are interested in the development of Greek thought after Aristotle. In nine original studies, the authors explore the meaning and history of "eclecticism" i…
La sagesse grecque
by Colli, Giorgio, Gabellone, Pascal, Tramuta, Marie-José, Lorimy, Myriam, Farazzi, Patricia
fromPolemos (Combas)
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Type: Book
Review text: "Si tratta in conclusione di un contributo molto improtante non solo per la storia della filosofia ma anche per la storia della scienza antica."Marco Beretta in: Nuncius 2/2008.
The Ancient Greek Atomists assumed atoms to be the basis of the world. It is however extremely difficult to ascertain how they reached this conclusion and how they pictured these indivisible particles. (Did they see them as compact essences which were so hard that they could not…
"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers reproduces the text of a lecture series delivered by the young Friedrich Nietzsche (then a philologist) at the University of Basel between 1872 and 1876. In these lectures, Nietzsche surveys the Greek philosophers from Thales to Socrates, establish…