Heraclitus and Thales' conceptual scheme : : a historical study / / by Aryeh Finkelberg.

• Superior document: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, volume 23
• VerfasserIn: Finkelberg, Aryeh,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 pages).

In Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study Aryeh Finkelberg offers an alternative to the traditional teleological interpretation of early Greek thought. Instead of explaining it as targeted at later results, viz. philosophy, as this thought was first conceptualized by Aristotle and has been regarded ever since, the author seeks to determine its intended meaning by restoring it to its historical context as evinced, inter alia, by epigraphic and papyrological evidence, in particular the Gold Leaves, the Olbian bone plates, and the Derveni papyrus. This approach, together with a considerable amount of hitherto unidentified or largely disregarded evidence, yields a picture of early Greek thought significantly different from the traditional history of ‘Presocratic philosophy’.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Questions of Method -- Heraclitus: The Life and the Book -- Fire: Want and Satiety -- The Solstices of Fire -- The Fugitive δαίμονες -- Fighting Souls -- Heraclitus and Other Teachers of Salvation -- The One and the Many -- The Mind that Is in Us -- The Logos -- Appendix -- The Companions of Gods -- The Thaletan Conceptual Scheme -- The One -- The One versus the Many -- The Thaletan Conceptual Scheme and the Thaletan Tradition -- Appendix: Marcus Aurelius’ Quotations -- References -- Modern Authors -- Index nominum et rerum -- Index locorum potiorum.