Interconnectedness :
Zatta, Claudia
Interconnectedness : the living world of the early Greek philosophers / Claudia Zatta. - Sankt Augustin : Academia Verlag, 2017. - 305 p. ; 22 cm. - International pre-Platonic studies ; v. 7.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Beyond the human -- 1. A presocratic trajectory : from the origin of the world to animals and plants -- 2. Creatures of chance and logos -- 3. Being in the world : animal's sensations and thought -- 4. Plants : animals upside down -- 5. Animals and the soul -- 6. Plato's timaeus : the world as a living animal and the specializations of the soul.
"What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. However, scholarship has paid little attention to these issues and to the surprisingly "modern" development they received in Presocratics' doctrines. This book fills this lacuna through a detailed (and largely unprecedented) analysis of the extant evidence.
The volume includes also the first extensive collection of the ancient sources pertaining to living beings and life in early Greek philosophy, organized chronologically and thematically."-- Publisher's description.
9783896657237
Pre-Socratic philosophers
Philosophy, Ancient
180
Interconnectedness : the living world of the early Greek philosophers / Claudia Zatta. - Sankt Augustin : Academia Verlag, 2017. - 305 p. ; 22 cm. - International pre-Platonic studies ; v. 7.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Beyond the human -- 1. A presocratic trajectory : from the origin of the world to animals and plants -- 2. Creatures of chance and logos -- 3. Being in the world : animal's sensations and thought -- 4. Plants : animals upside down -- 5. Animals and the soul -- 6. Plato's timaeus : the world as a living animal and the specializations of the soul.
"What did the early Greek philosophers think about animals and their lives? How did they view plants? And, ultimately, what type of relationship did they envisage between all sorts of living beings? On these topics there is evidence of a prolonged investigation by several Presocratics. However, scholarship has paid little attention to these issues and to the surprisingly "modern" development they received in Presocratics' doctrines. This book fills this lacuna through a detailed (and largely unprecedented) analysis of the extant evidence.
The volume includes also the first extensive collection of the ancient sources pertaining to living beings and life in early Greek philosophy, organized chronologically and thematically."-- Publisher's description.
9783896657237
Pre-Socratic philosophers
Philosophy, Ancient
180