Philosophy Before Socrates (McKirahan - 2nd ed.)

Author: Richard D. McKirahan

ISBN: 9781603841825

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy. It provides a wide survey of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and Sophists of the fifth century. A comprehensive selection of fragments and testimonia, translated by the author, is presented in the context of a thorough and accessible discussion. In its second edition, this work has been updated and expanded to reflect important new discoveries and the most recent scholarship.