Studies in Early Greek Philosophy, : A Collection of Papers and One Review.

• Superior document: Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 151
• Author: Jaap Mansfeld
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia Antiqua 151.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 pages).

The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Detheologization -- Insight by Hindsight -- Bothering the Infinite -- Anaximander’s Fragment: Another Attempt -- Anaximenes’ Soul -- Minima Parmenidea -- Parmenides from Right to Left -- Parmenides on Sense Perception in Theophrastus and Elsewhere -- Heraclitus on Soul and Super-Soul -- Alcmaeon and Plato on Soul -- The Body Politic -- Aristotle on Anaxagoras in Relation to Empedocles in Metaphysics A -- »Das verteufelte Lastschiff« -- Democritus on Poetry -- Out of Touch -- The Presocratic Philosophers -- Protagoras on Epistemological Obstacles and Persons -- Aristotle on Socrates’ Contributions to Philosophy -- Hermann Diels (1848–1922).