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Book SynopsisThis collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and sc
Table of ContentsPreface (1974)AbbreviationsEditor's Supplement to the Princeton University Press EditionAddenda to the Selective Bibliography: 1973-1993Editor's Introduction11Nous, Noein, and their Derivatives in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Excluding Anaxagoras)232Qualitative Change in Pre-Socratic Philosophy863Anaximander's Fragment: The Universe Governed by Law994Xenophanes' Empiricism and His Critique of Knowledge (B[subscript 34])1185Mysticism and Science in the Pythagorean Tradition1356Pythagorean Philosophy before Plato1617Natural Change in Heraclitus1898Flux and Logos in Heraclitus1979A Thought Pattern in Heraclitus21410Paradox, Simile, and Gnomic Utterance in Heraclitus22911Elements of Eleatic Ontology24112Plato and Parmenides on the Timeless Present27113The Relation between the Two Parts of Parmenides' Poem29314The Deceptive Words of Parmenides' "Doxa"31215Zeno and Indivisible Magnitudes35316The Tradition about Zeno of Elea Re-Examined36817Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle in the 'Sixties39718Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles' Doctrine of the Soul42619The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras45920Anaxagoras and the Concept of Matter before Aristotle48921The Atomists' Reply to the Eleatics504Selective Bibliography (1974)527Indexes i. Ancient Texts543Indexes ii. Personal Names547Indexes iii. Glossary and Index of Greek Words Discussed549Indexes iv. Subject Index554
