The Origins of Philosophy

by HYLAND, DREW A.

• ISBN13: 9781573923507
• ISBN10: 1573923508
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1973-12-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Skillfully intermingles original source material, including selections from Gilgamesh, Hesiod, Homer, Pythagoras, Plato, and Socrates, with commentaries by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger to answer the ontological question: How does philosophy arise?

Author Biography

DR. Drew A. Hyland is a member of the Philosophy Department at Trinity College in Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction: The Question of Origins	p. 15
Myth and (or as) Philosophy	p. 29
The Epic of Gilgamesh	p. 33
Homer	p. 37
Hesiod	p. 38
Xenophanes	p. 44
Philosophy and Cosmology-The Milesians	p. 97
Thales	p. 109
Anaximander	p. 117
Anaximens	p. 122
Philosophy and Mathematics--The Pythagoreans	p. 127
Pythagoras	p. 133
The Battle of the Giants	p. 145
Heraclitus--The Spokesman for Becoming	p. 160
The Battle of the Giants	p. 179
Parmenides--The Spokesman for Being	p. 189
Catching Up With Zeno	p. 203
Zeno	p. 224
Responses to the Battle of the Giants	p. 237
Empedocles	p. 224
Responses to the Battle of the Giants	p. 267
Anaxagoras	p. 273
The Atomists	p. 285
Leucippus	p. 294
Democritus	p. 297
Philosophy as Rhetoric--The Sophists	p. 317
Protagoras	p. 327
Gorgias	p. 335
The New Beginning	p. 343
Socrates and Plato	p. 351
Glossary of Greek Terms	p. 379
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 381
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