Socratics

"Some time ago, and before I was quite so well versed in the knowledge of Life in London as at present, through the medium of one of the 'young men of genius about town,' I became a member of a new philosophical society called the Socratics, held at a certain house near Temple Bar.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

His special area of philosophy is Aristotle and the pre-Socratics.

Dead Right « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

(There are 18 pre-Socratics, physiologists, sages and Sophists alone!)

Exit Wisely 2009

For the pre-Socratics, it included the totality of what people experienced.

The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth By Walter Truett Anderson William Harryman 2009

We apply these analytic methods to important moments in the history of philosophy: Greek metaphysics, including the pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle; Descartes's theory of mind and Enlightenment faculty psychology; Kant's moral theory; and analytic philosophy.

Philosopgy in the Flesh - Chapter One William Harryman 2009

(There are 18 pre-Socratics, physiologists, sages and Sophists alone!)

Exit Wisely 2009

He reads extensively in philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Schopenhauer.

The Making of Samuel Beckett Coetzee, J.M. 2009

Alain Badiou on what Lacan got from the pre-Socratics via Heidegger.

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According to Heidegger, we must be very careful when we speak of Parmenides and Heraclitus as pre-Socratics.

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Plato's theory of ideas simply drives a permanent wedge between these two aspects of being, that which was in Parmenides and Heraclitus the peculiar "togetherness" of Physis and Logos, Logos and Physis; such that Plato's theory of ideas can be said to represent the completion, though a rather unfortunate completion, to the great beginning of the pre-Socratics.

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