The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield, Protagoras, Empedocles, Anaximenes, Thrasymachus, Thales, Heraclitus, Zeno of Elea, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Gorgias of Leontini

The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

Robin Waterfield, Protagoras, Empedocles, Anaximenes, Thrasymachus, Thales, Heraclitus, Zeno of Elea, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Gorgias of Leontini

15 hours, 21 minutes • first pub 2023 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction classics history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterpr...

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