Overview
- The Presocratics were the first to interpret the universe critically, through a unique combination of rational thought, intuition and observation, excluding any intervention of divine or supernatural powers
- They appealed to man’s conscience, elevating man to a free and responsible position
- They posed the fundamental questions about ‘truth’, ‘being’, ‘becoming’
- They laid the foundations for critical investigation, without which science would not exist
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 257)
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“Vamvacas provides a very neat survey of presocratic philosophers in chronological order detailing their contributions to modern science. … provide a fairly lucid introduction to presocratic thought. The book was originally written in Greek in 2001 and has been translated in a manner that is easily accessible to non-historians, including Vamvacas’ desired scientific readership.” (Luciano Boschiero, Metascience, Vol. 19 (3), November, 2010)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Founders of Western Thought – The Presocratics
Book Subtitle: A diachronic parallelism between Presocratic Thought and Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
Authors: Constantine J. Vamvacas
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9791-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9790-4Published: 08 June 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8935-7Published: 30 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9791-1Published: 28 May 2009
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 293
Additional Information: Original German edition published by Patmos/Artemis & Winkler Verlaag
Topics: Classical Philosophy, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, History of Philosophy, Popular Science, general, History, general