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…
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…
Die Milesier
by Overwien, Oliver, Anaximandre, Anaximène de Milet
fromTraditio praesocratica (Print)
Die Milesier: Anaximander und Anaximenes
Die Milesier: Anaximander und Anaximenes
Die Edition der drei milesischen Philosophen des sechsten Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Thales, Anaximander und Anaximenes ist - entsprechend der grundlegenden Zielsetzung der Neuedition der vorsokratischen Philosophen, wesentlich die Überlieferungswege und Überlieferungsintentionen der…
The book focuses on Heidegger's thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us b…