A History of Greek Philosophy: The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus PDF
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A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY VOLUME II A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY BY W.K. C.GUTHRIE F.B.A. Master ofDowning College and Laurence Professor ofAncient Philosophy in the University ofCambridge VOLUME II THE PRESOCRATIC TRADITION FROM PARMENIDES TO DEMOCRITUS CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1969 PUBLISHED BY THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London, N.W.1 American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022 West African Office: P.O. Box 33, Ibadan, Nigeria © CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1965 StandardBooh Number: 521 o5i6o 6 Library ofCongress Catalogue CardNumber: G2S2735 Firstpublished igGS Reprinted 1969 /Si Firstprintedin Great Britain at the University Printing House, Cambridge Reprintedin Great Britain byAlden & Mowbray Ltd. at the Alden Press, Oxford CONTENTS Preface page! xiii Note on the Sources xvii List ofAbbreviations xix The Eleatics I 1 A. Parmenides 1 (i) Date and life 1 (2) Writings 3 (3) A central problem 4 (4) The prologue 6 (5) Two ways ofinquiry: one true, the other impossible 13 (6) The true way and the false 20 (7) The only true way: the marks of *what is* 26 (a) It is eternal, neither comingintc)being nor perishing 26 (b) It is continuous and indivisible 3i (c) It is motionless, and lies complete within peirata 34 (d) Recapitulation: coming-into-being, loco- motion and alteration are names without content 39 (e) It is 'like a round ball' 43 (8) The false way ofwhat seems to mortals 50 (9) Cosmogony and cosmology 57 (10) Theory ofknowledge: the soul 67 (11) Being and seeming 71 Appendix: the opposites in Parmenides 77 B. Zeno - 80 (1) Date and life 80 (2) Writings and method 81 vii
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