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The philosophers of Greece / Robert S. Brumbaugh

Author
Brumbaugh, Robert S. (Robert Sherrick), 1918-1992
Published
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1981.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Ionia and Italy -- Thales: inventor of physics and philosophy -- Anaximander: the ideal of neutral matter -- Anaximenes: change without personality -- Pythagoras and his school: the music of the spheres -- Heraclitus: time versus eternity -- Parmenides: logic and mysticism -- Zeno of Elea: the paradox of motion -- Empedocles: too much imagination -- Democritus and the atomic theory: materialism -- Athens: the school of Greece -- Anaxagoras: mind orders all things -- Archelaus: the first Athenian scientist -- The Sophists: how to succeed in Athens -- Socrates: the search for the self -- Plato: order, fact, and value -- Aristotle: the organization of all reality.
Summary
Illustrations include a reconstruction of the first map.
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ISBN
0585067783 (electronic bk.)
9780585067780 (electronic bk.)
0873955501
9780873955508
087395551X (pbk.)
9780873955515 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
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