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Studies in Early Greek Philosophy

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The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a ...
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  • 20 September 2018
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The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.
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Price: $290.00
Pages: 430
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philosophia Antiqua
Publication Date: 20 September 2018
ISBN: 9789004382053
Format: Hardcover
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"Throughout Mansfeld’s new collection of papers on early Greek philosophy, we are reminded both of the achievement of Diels, and of the need to maintain a critical attitude to even such an august tool of philological, philosophical, and historical scholarship. Mansfeld is one of the best scholars to remind us of this point, as he, like Diels, and David Runia (Mansfeld’s colleague on the important Aëtiana project), is a master of the historiography of ancient Greek philosophy (not limited to the earliest Greek thinkers). This new volume brings together nineteen discussions of the Presocratics and of the history of scholarship dealing with them." - Patricia Curd, in: Gnomon 93.1 (2021)

"Ces études de la réception sont remarquables par leur précision et leur érudition, à la fois en ce qui concerne les textes anciens et les interprétations modernes ; en témoignent l’abondance des notes en bas de page et des bibliographies. [...] Dans l’ensemble, les études proposées dans cet ouvrage sont stimulantes et solidement argumentées, et le plus souvent convaincantes. Leur richesse et leur insistance sur les détails a certes parfois le défaut d’en rendre la lecture ardue (malgré un style toujours clair et agréable), mais cette difficulté est souvent inévitable dans le domaine des études préplatoniciennes, auquel le travail de Jaap Mansfeld, dans cet ouvrage comme ailleurs, a apporté une contribution exceptionnelle." - Mathilde Brémond, in: Philosophie antique 19 (2019)
Jaap Mansfeld is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in the University of Utrecht. He has published on Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Late Commentators, with a particular focus on ancient historiographical traditions relating to philosophy.