1st Edition

The World of Parmenides Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment

By Karl Popper Copyright 2012
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocratics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to show the greatness of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philosophy, its... Read more

Foreword by Scott Austin  Editor's Preface  List of Abbreviations  Introduction  1. Back to the Presocratics  2. The Unknown Xenophanes  3. How the Moon Might Shed Some of Her Light upon the Two Ways of Parmenides (I)  4. How the Moon Might Shed Some of Her Light upon the Two Ways of Parmenides (1989)  5. Can the Moon Throw Light on Parmenides' Ways? (1988)  6. The World of Parmenides: Notes on Parmenides' Poem and its Origin in Early Greek Cosmology  7. Beyond the Search for Invariants  8. Comments on the Prehistoric Discovery of the Self and on the Mind-Problem in Ancient Greek Philosophy  9. Plato and Geometry  10. Concluding Remarks on Support and Countersupport  Appendix  Index

Biography

Sir Karl Popper (1902-94). Philosopher, born in Vienna. One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.