The first philosophers :

Contributor(s): Waterfield, Robin, 1952-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Oxford world's classicsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 400 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780199539093 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Pre-Socratic philosophers | Sophists (Greek philosophy) | PhilosophyDDC classification: 182 LOC classification: B187.5Summary: This title examines the first philosophers. Through Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic.
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Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title examines the first philosophers. Through Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic.

Translated from the Ancient Greek.