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The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy - Its Origin, Development, and Significance (Hardcover)
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The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy - Its Origin, Development, and Significance (Hardcover)
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When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about
the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But
what exactly does it mean to talk about "Presocratic philosophy" in
the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered
collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, Andre
Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic
philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance
and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full
crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects
today. Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth
of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of
the term "Presocratics" and the debates about it that spanned the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual
circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy--and
what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The
book closes by comparing two models of the history of
philosophy--the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg
Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer--and
their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other
categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed
include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius,
Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant.
Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book
calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early
Greek philosophy and Western rationality.
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