The Philosophers of Greece - Robert S.Brumbaugh.pdf

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OF
GREECE
The
men
and
ideas
derstanding
of
the
world
about
us
ROBERT
S.
BRUMBAUGH
THE
PHILOSOPHERS
OF
GREECE
The
Men
and
Ideas
That
Shaped
Our
Understanding
of
the
World About
Us
ROBERTS.
BRUMBAUGH
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This
brilliant
survey
of
the
cey
ideas
of
Greek
philosophy
COY:
scene
unmatched
b
time
period
er.
3
and
a
It
was
when
the
g
*
of
Western
culture
were
u-
the
world's
great
classical
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was
the
age
of
Thalcs,
Anaximenes,
Empedocles,
Heracli-
tus,
Parmenides,
Zeno,
Anaxagoras,
the
It
Sophists,
Plato,
and
Aristotle.
produced
the
great
philosophical
writings
on
meta-
physics,
cosmology,
politics,
and
logic-a
unique
record
of
man's
use
of
reason
to
explain
the
world
about
him.
As
Dr.
Brumbaugh
of
traces
the evolution
own
of
Greek
philosophy,
the
reader
sees
his
familiar
world
emerge
from
the
mist
myth
which
surrounded
is
the
ancients.
"What
real?"
asked
Thales,
the
great
inventor
and
engineer,
who
who
sparked
the
systematic
development
of
natural
science.
Following
Anaximander,
to
the
physical
world,
his
followers
extended
law
came
Pythagoras
and
with
the
discovery
of
pure
mathematics.
It
was
Socrates
who
was
to
introduce
the
second
major
question
into
Western
philos-
It"
ophy.
"What
His
question
led
to
a
new
phase
of
inquiry
and
inspired
new
approaches
to
politics
and
continued
on
back
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by
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