Beginning with the Pre-Socratics

By Merrill Ring

Designed to provide non-philosophy majors in a history of philosophy course with a simple background to the earliest Greek philosophers, this text includes a brief history of the region, followed by chapters on Greek cosmology, and the earliest rational philosophers, such as Miletus and Thales.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767413385
• ISBN13: 9780767413381
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.4" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

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This was a required text for a college course I took in Ancient Greek philosophy. Though this book does not contain large samples of fragments from the Pre-Socratics themselves it does an excellent job of both contextualizing their thought and clearly explaining their ideas. A very helpful guide to Pre-Socratic philosophy.