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书名: The Presocratic Philosophers (Arguments of the Philosophers)
作者: Jonathan Barnes (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (November 23, 1983)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415050790
ISBN-13: 978-0415050791
Book Description
This volume provides a comprehensive exposition of the arguments of the Presocratics--the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition and the first masters of rational thought. While previous books have concentrated on historical and philological issues, The Presocratic Philosophers focuses on the philosophical content of Presocratic ideas and arguments, offering a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought. The book considers all the main thinkers from Thales to the Sophists and pays particular attention to Parmenides, Zeno, Anaxagoras and Democritus.
Review
"Jonathan Barnes . . . has carried out his large enterprise with scholarly skill, philosophical acuteness, and a degree of brilliant, disciplined imagination that will amaze and delight those of us who were inclined to be skeptical . . . All lovers of the Presocratics will welcome this highly personal, vigorous and stimulating survey of the field from a distinctly philosophical point of view." -- Journal of Philosophy
"This is one of the richest recent contributions to Presocratic studies, and by far the most exhilarating. It also rests on considerable erudition, for Barnes has taken careful and appreciative account of the work of a vast range of other scholars in the field, even those who have followed quite different paths from his own." -- Cambridge Review
About the Author
Jonathan Barnes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford University.
