1st Edition
In Dialogue with the Greeks Volume I: The Presocratics and Reality
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This first of two volumes on the Greeks by Rush Rhees addresses the central philosophical question: In what sense does philosophy investigate reality? In answering this question, Rhees brings the work of the Presocratics into close relation with contemporary philosophy. D.Z. Phillips's editorial commentary is particularly helpful in assisting the reader with their bearings as they approach the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; 'All Things'; Geometry and description; 'It is'; 'Eternal flux'; 'Indestructible roots'; Paradoxes?; Intelligence and 'original things'; Atoms; Is man the measure of all things?; Discourse and reality; Index.
Biography
Rush Rhees (1905 - 1989) was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and one of his literary executors. He devoted much of his life to editing his work. Rhees taught philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1940 to 1966, where he subsequently became an Honorary Professor and Fellow. Among his teachers he included John Anderson, Alfred Kastil, G. E. Moore and, above all, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
