History of Philosophy I

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the Author
• About the Book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Introduction More or Less Protreptic
• 1. Heraclitus of Ephesus
• 1.1 Logos and Unawakened
• 1.2 Harmony of Contrasts
• 1.3 Criticism of Cognitive Abilities
• 2. Parmenides and Zeno
• 2.1 Prooimion and Ways of Knowledge
• 2.2 The Nature of Being
• 2.3 The Way of the Two-headed
• 2.4 Zeno of Elea
• 3. Empedocles
• 3.1 The Principles
• 3.2 Cosmogony and Zoogony
• 3.3 Perception and Knowledge
• 3.4 The Purifications
• 4. Anaxagoras
• 4.1 Basic Principles
• 4.2 Sensory Perception and Cognition
• 5. The Presocratic Atomists
• 5.1 Atoms and Void
• 5.2 Knowledge and Cognition
• 5.3 The Ethics of Democritus
• 6. The Sophists
• 6.1 The Historical Context of Sophists
• 6.2 Protagoras of Abdera
• 6.3 Gorgias
• 6.3.1 Thesis I: “Nothing is“
• 6.3.2 Thesis II: “Even if it exists it is incomprehensible to man”
• 6.3.3 Thesis III: “Even if it is comprehensible, it surely cannot be expressed or communicated to another”
• 6.4 Physis and nomos
• List of Abbreviations
• Bibliography