Early Greek Philosophy
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503245306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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AlexBooksAndCDs said I found Burnet accessible for beginners, a good thing. For those who are considering this book, I found it accessible to beginners, because it was the *first* book on the Presocratics I read, and I got through it fine (with no prior Greek Philosophy instruction). Not as "strenuous" as Kirk & Raven which had quotes imbedded in fo. "Excellent Overview of the Presocratic Philosophy" according to Dragos Bucurenci. It is probably the best work on Presocratic philosophers including their biographies, found fragments and commentary. Burnet, who is best known for his translation of Plato's works (the Platonis Opera Oxoniensis), was one of the greatest specialists in ancient philosophy and. Kindle edition virtually unreadable Kindle edition is just scanned photographically so cannot be searched and has no usable page numbering or indexing. Main text is unalterably small and displays in landscape mode. Footnotes are smaller still, with Greek text almost impossible to make out.
Nor were those needs felt all at once. From the intro: "IT was not till the traditional view of the world and the customary rules of life had broken down, that the Greeks began to feel the needs which philosophies of nature and of conduct seek to satisfy. The ancestral maxims of conduct were not seriously questioned till the old view of nature had passed away; and, for this reason, the earliest philosophers busied themselves mainly with speculations about the world around them. In due season, Logic was called into being to meet a fresh want. The period which precedes the rise of Logic and Ethics has thus a distinctive character of its own, and may fitly be treated apar