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A brief survey of Presocratic and Platonic metaphysics.
Title: A brief survey of Presocratic and Platonic metaphysics.
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
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A brief survey of Presocratic and Platonic metaphysics.
Stepping in the Same River Twice:
The Metaphysics of Plato and the Presocratics
He who cannot draw on three thousand years
is living hand to mouth
- Goethe
The SS Sardine is a fine, sea-going vessel. Its owner however, is quite bent on wanting an entirely new boat. Instead of investing the money into buying a whole boat, she figures that she will simply transform the Sardine into a new boat herself. For a period of …showed first 75 words of 1711 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1711 total…Those so quick to undermine millennia of philosophical tradition undermine what it is to be human: thought itself.
Works Cited
Aristotle. The Metaphysica. gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/02/39/12
"Greek Philosophy." The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Ed. James Fieser. 2 Feb. 2003 <http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/ greekphi.htm>
Heraclitus. "Fragment 21." Heraclitus. Ed. Philip Wheelwright Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1959 p. 12
Plato. The Republic. London: Oxford University Press, 1941
Wheelwright, Philip. The Presocratics. Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 1966
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