pre-Socratics

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

Dead Right « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

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

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

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

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

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

Exit Wisely 2009

Heidegger does not return again and again to the thinking of the pre-Socratics simply because of his insistence that their thought still supports our world, even though through the general forgetting of being in the West we have lost awareness of this.

Archive 2008-01-01 enowning 2008

But just as Sein und Zeit represented "one way" back to an authentic thinking on being, so the re-study of the pre-Socratics can also represent a recalling re-thinking Andenken on being.

Archive 2008-01-01 enowning 2008

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.

Archive 2008-01-01 enowning 2008

One of the things that drew me to philosophy as an undergraduate — aside from the intrinsic interest in the subject matter — was the idea of taking part in this sort of massive conversation I could trace back to the pre-Socratics and imagine extending on into the future — the mother of all late-night dorm room bull sessions.

Remembering Robert Nozick (and Some Thoughts on Philosophy as a Wiki) 2006