Heraclitus and Thales' Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33799-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

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’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finkelberg, Aryeh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Vorsokratische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Aryeh Finkelberg, Ph.D (1985, Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at Tel Aviv University (retired); he is the author of many articles on the Presocratics published in leading professional journals.