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this is the first edition,
This review is from: Early Greek Philosophy (Paperback)
Potential buyers should be aware that this edition is a photographic reproduction of the 1892 first edition of Burnet's famous book. It would probably be better to find a copy (used) of the final, fourth edition.
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Excellent Overview of the Presocratic Philosophy,
By Dragos Bucurenci (Bucharest, Romania) - See all my reviews
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It is probably the best work on Presocratic philosophers including their biographies, found fragments and commentary. Burnet, who is best known for his translation of Plato's works (the Platonis Opera Oxoniensis), was one of the greatest specialists in ancient philosophy and this can be seen by the accuracy of the information this book offers. However, it is not one of those professional studies that bore the reader and don't manage to transmit any information. Apart from some newly (XXth century) acquired information in the field (that may have occurred since Burnet wrote this book), "Early Greek Philosophers" offers to the amateur reader the best overview on Presocratic Philosophy.
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I found Burnet accessible for beginners, a good thing,
This review is from: Early Greek Philosophy (Paperback)
For those who are considering this book, I found it accessible to beginners, because it was the *first* book on the Presocratics I read, and I got through it fine (with no prior Greek Philosophy instruction). Not as "strenuous" as Kirk & Raven which had quotes imbedded in footnotes etc. making it more of a "scholarly" thing (but also excellent nonetheless).
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1. IT was at Miletos that the earliest school of scientific cosmology had its home, and it is not, perhaps, without significance that Miletos is just the place where the continuity of Aegean and Ionian civilisation is most clearly marked. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes of Apollonia, Greek Thinkers, Plato's Timaeus, Seven Wise Men, Great Year, Milky Way, Das Problem, Fire of Herakleitos, Herakleides of Pontos, Marcus Aurelius, Timon of Phleious, Alkmaion of Kroton, Asia Minor, Johannes Muller, Neue Jahrb, Parmenides Lehrgedicht, Theon of Smyrna, Timaios the Lokrian, Twelve Tables New!
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1. IT was at Miletos that the earliest school of scientific cosmology had its home, and it is not, perhaps, without significance that Miletos is just the place where the continuity of Aegean and Ionian civilisation is most clearly marked. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes of Apollonia, Greek Thinkers, Plato's Timaeus, Seven Wise Men, Great Year, Milky Way, Das Problem, Fire of Herakleitos, Herakleides of Pontos, Marcus Aurelius, Timon of Phleious, Alkmaion of Kroton, Asia Minor, Johannes Muller, Neue Jahrb, Parmenides Lehrgedicht, Theon of Smyrna, Timaios the Lokrian, Twelve Tables New!
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- A Short History of Greek Mathematics (Dover Phoenix Editions) by James Gow in Front Matter, page 46, and page 295
- Hippokratische Untersuchungen (History of Ideas in Ancient Greece) by Carl Fredrich on page 244, and page 360
- Greek Theories in Front Matter, and page 194
- The Cults of the Greek States Part One by Lewis Richard Farnell in Front Matter, and page 81
- From Religion to Philosophy by Francis MacDonald Cornford in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume 1: The Presocratics by Gregory Vlastos on 12 pages
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- Outlines Of Metaphysics by John S. Mackenzie on 5 pages
- Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence) by D. H. Lawrence on 5 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Anne Fernihough on 4 pages
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