Following my reflections on the fragments of the Early Greek Philosophers I have compiled an overarching video reflection to give an introduction to the interested reader. Please subscribe for future episodes.
Recommended reading:
Primary sources:
A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia (Hackett Classics). Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Secondary sources:
Barnes, Jonathan. THE PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS (The Arguments of the Philosophers) . Taylor and Francis.
Kirk, G. S.; Raven, J. E.; Schofield, M.. The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selcetion of Texts. Cambridge University Press.
Guthrie, W. K. C.. A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1, 2 and 3. Cambridge University Press.
Graham, Daniel W.. Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy, Princeton University Press
Cordero, Nestor-Luis. By Being, It Is: The Thesis of Parmenides. Parmenides Publishing.
Intro and Outro music:
Reeder, Watchmaker’s Daughter – available on Free Music Archive or at http://www.iamreeder.com/
Painting
Fresco in the Library of El Escorial, Madrid, Zeno of Elea shows Youths the Doors to Truth and False, 1588 -1595
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