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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece (Hardcover)
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The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece (Hardcover)
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A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now
in English for the first time How can we talk about the beginnings
of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition
of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore the
multiple styles of thought that emerged between them? In this
acclaimed book, available in English for the first time, Maria
Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early
Greek "Presocratics" to provide a richer understanding of the roots
of what used to be called "the Greek miracle." The beginnings of
the long process leading to philosophy were characterized by
intellectual diversity and geographic polycentrism. In the sixth
and fifth centuries BC, between the Asian shores of Ionia and the
Greek city-states of southern Italy, thinkers started to reflect on
the cosmic order, elaborate doctrines on the soul, write in solemn
Homeric meter, or, later, abandon poetry for an assertive prose.
And yet the Presocratics, whether the Milesian natural thinkers,
the rhapsode Xenophanes, the mathematician and "shaman" Pythagoras,
the naturalist and seer Empedocles, the oracular Heraclitus, or the
inspired Parmenides, all shared an approach to critical thinking
that, by questioning traditional viewpoints, revolutionized
knowledge. A unique study that explores the full range of early
Greek thinkers in the context of their worlds, the book also
features a new introduction to the English edition in which the
author discusses the latest scholarship on the subject.
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