A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 2: The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus

All volumes of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek philosophy have won their due acclaim. The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship, his fairness and balance of judgement and the lucidity and precision of his English prose. He has achieved clarity and comprehensiveness. Contents......Page 4 Preface......Page 11 Note on the Sources......Page 15 List of Abbreviations......Page 17 A. Parmenides......Page 19 B. Zeno......Page 98 C. Melissus......Page 119 II Ionians and Eleatics: The Rise and Fall of Monism......Page 137 A. Introduction......Page 140 B. Date and life......Page 146 C. Personality: healer and wonder-worker......Page 150 D. Writings......Page 152 E. Escape from Parmenides: the four roots......Page 156 F. Structure of matter: the theory of mixture and its relation to atomism......Page 165 G. Love and Strife page......Page 170 H. Causation in Empedocles: chance, necessity and nature......Page 177 I. The cosmic cycle......Page 185 J. Cosmogony and cosmology......Page 203 K. The formation of living creatures......Page 218 L. The structure of animate nature: physiology......Page 229 M. Cognition, thought, sensation......Page 246 N. The Purifications Page......Page 262 IV Anaxagoras......Page 284 V Archelaus......Page 357 VI Philosophy in the Second Half of the Fifth Century......Page 363 VII Diogenes of Apollonia page......Page 380 VIII The Atomists of the Fifth Century......Page 400 A. Leucippus......Page 401 B. Democritus......Page 404 C. The atomic theory......Page 407 Bibliography......Page 526 I Index of passages quoted or referred to......Page 541 II General Index......Page 555 III Index of Greek words......Page 572 v. 1. The earlier Presocratics and Pythagoreans v. 2. The Presocratic tradition from Parmenides to Democritus v. 3. The fifth-century enlightenment v. 4. Plato, the man and his dialogues v. 5. The later Plato and the academy v. 6. Aristotle, an encounter. This volume brings to completion Professor Guthrie's six-volume History of Greek Philosophy in which he surveys the whole field of Greek philosophy from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Surveys Greek thought through a critical discussion of the major schools and philosophers Presocratic philosophy is divided into two halves by the name of Parmenides.