Early Greek philosophy : the Presocratics and the emergence of reason

278 Pages·2012·1.43 MB·English

by  McCoy

Early Greek Philosophy
Studies in Philosophy and the
History of Philosophy
General Editor: Jude P. Dougherty
Volume 57
Early Greek Philosophy
The Presocratics and the Emergence of Reason
Edited by Joe McCoy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Early Greek philosophy : the Presocratics and the emergence of reason /
edited by Joe McCoy.
pages cm. — (Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ;
volume 57)
Includes bibliographical references (pages) and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-8132-2121-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Pre-Socratic philosophers.
2. Philosophy, Ancient. I. McCoy, Joe. II. Kahn, Charles H. Achieve-
ment of early Greek philosophy.
B187.5.E27 2013
182—dc23 2012041070
In Memoriam
Kurt J. Pritzl, OP
1952–2011

Contents
Abbreviations ix | Joe McCoy, Introduction xi
1. Charles Kahn The Achievement of Early Greek Philosophy:
A Drama in Five Acts: From Thales to the Timaeus 1
2. Kurt Pritzl, OP Anaximander’s apeiron and the
Arrangement of Time 18
3. Kenneth Dorter The Problem of Evil in Heraclitus 36
4. Carl A. Huffman Reason and Myth in Early Pythagorean
Cosmology 55
5. J. H. Lesher A Systematic Xenophanes? 77
6. Alexander P. D. Mourelatos Parmenides, Early Greek
Astronomy, and Modern Scientific Realism 91
7. Patricia Curd Where Are Love and Strife? Incorporeality in
Empedocles 113
8. Daniel W. Graham Anaxagoras: Science and Speculation in
the Golden Age 139
9. John C. McCarthy Bacon’s Third Sailing: The “Presocratic”
Origins of Modern Philosophy 157
10. Richard Velkley Primal Truth, Errant Tradition,
and Crisis: The Presocratics in Late Modernity 189
Bibliography 209 | Contributors 221
Index of Sources 225 | Index of Names 229
Index of Subjects 233

Abbreviations
DK H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6th ed. (Berlin,
1951), and later editions, in which each Presocratic is assigned a number.
In addition, each fragment is assigned a number preceded by a “B”; tes-
timonia are given numbers preceded by an “A.” For example, the num-
ber for Anaximenes is 12, and thus Anaximenes’s fragment 1 is assigned
the Diels-Kranz number: “DK 12B1.” Line numbers are indicated by fi-
nal decimal numbers. Thus, e.g., line number 4 of Empedocles’s fragment
17 is noted as: DK 31B17.4. In the present volume, the practice is to drop
the initial DK, since Diels-Kranz numbering is used throughout, as well
as the initial Presocratic number, unless the context does not make clear
which Presocratic is being considered.
HGP W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, 6 vols. (Cambridge,
1962–1981). Only the first two volumes concern the material treated in
the present work.
KR G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge,
1957).
KRS G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers,
2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1983).
LSJ H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by H. S.
Jones, 9th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940); with a supplement, 1968.
PSP J. Barnes, The Presocratic Philosophers, rev. ed. (London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1981).
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