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Title: The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History With a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, Malcolm Schofield ISBN: 0-521-27455-9 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The definitive collection of pre-socratic philosophy.
Comment: I first read Kirk and Raven's `Presocratic Philosophers' as an undergrad. I was being taught pre-socratic philosophy by a Cambridge Classical Greek philosopher. Since then it has become one of my favourite and most valuable philosophy texts. Kirk and Raven present us with all the credible `fragments' of presocratic philosophy as quoted in later philosophers. They present the original greek and a (most times) definitive english translation and analysis. Although, what I learned through my professor via Kirk and Raven is that you sift or decant yourself through these most ancient and profound fragments - more akin to an approach to the `I Ching' and poetry than contemporary analytic philosophy. Kirk and Raven present us with the `holy' text of western philosophy which never fails to produce the wonder of thinking - a true thinking that is rare and primordial. Even if you usually don't like reading philosophy, the presocratics are really `post-modern' and poetic in their fragmentary and oracular collages of meaning. T.S. Eliot's `The Four Quartets' is soaked with pre-socratic philosophy.
The Pre-socratics deserve more attention because `all', and I mean all, of the basic philosophic and scientific positions are contained within these seeds of the western tradition.
Rating: 5
Summary: RSK Presocratics
Comment: This is the standard english language academic text book on the Presocratic Philosophers in Ancient Greece. It broke hundreds of years of tradition by including Orpheus, Musaeus, Pherecydes etc. - 'philosophers' before the Ionian Physicists.
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Title: Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers by Kathleen Freeman ISBN: 0674035011 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy by A. A. Long ISBN: 0521446678 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes ISBN: 069101650X Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $47.50 |
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Title: Plato Complete Works by Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson ISBN: 0872203492 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $48.50 |
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Title: The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary by C.H. Kahn ISBN: 052128645X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1981 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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