The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield, Protagoras, Empedocles, Anaximenes, Thrasymachus, Thales, Heraclitus, Zeno of Elea, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Gorgias of Leontini

The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

Robin Waterfield, Protagoras, Empedocles, Anaximenes, Thrasymachus, Thales, Heraclitus, Zeno of Elea, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Gorgias of Leontini

400 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction classics history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterpr...

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