The Art and Thought of Heraclitus 052128645X, 9780521286459
In this study, the disconnected fragments of the writings of Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher (ca. 500 B.C.), are trans
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English Pages 372 [368] Year 1981
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- Heraclitus
- Charles H. Kahn
- Categories
- Other Social Sciences
- Philosophy
- Commentary
- Corrected pagination and added bookmarks
Table of contents :
Preface
Bibliography and abbreviations
General introduction
1. The man, the time and the place
2. The book
3. The doctrine: Heraclitus and his predecessors
Introductiory note to text and translation
The fragments
On reading Heraclitus
Commentary on the fragments
Appendices
I. Dubious quotations from Heraclitus
II. Doxographic reports
III. Heraclitus and the Orient, apropos of a recent book by M.L. West
Notes
Concordances
Indexes
1. General index
2. Index of Passages discussed
