Editor's Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Permissions v
3. Contents ix
4. Preface (1974) xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Editor's Supplement to the Princeton University Press Edition xvii
7. Addenda to the Selective Bibliography: I973~I993 xxix
8. Editor's Introduction 1
9. I. Concept Studies
10. 1. Nous, Noein, and their Derivatives in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Excluding Anaxagoras) 23
11. 2. Qualitative Change in Pre-Socratic Philosophy 86
12. II. Ionian Beginnings
13. 3 Anaximander's Fragment: The Universe Governed by Law 99
14. 4. Xenophanes' Empiricism and His Critique of Knowledge (B34) 118
15. III. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism
16. 5. Mysticism And Science in the Pythagorean Tradition 135
17. 6 Pythagorean Philosophy Before Plato 161
18. IV. Heraclitus
19. 7. Natural Change in Heraclitus 189
20. 8. Flux And Logos in Heraclitus 197
21. 9. A Thought Pattern in Heraclitus 214
22. 10. Paradox, Simile, and Gnomic Utterance in Heraclitus 229
23. V. Parmenides
24. 11. Elements of Eleatic Ontology 241
25. 12. Plato and Parmenides on the Timeless Present 271
26. 13. The Relation Between the two Parts of Parmenides' Poem 293
27. 14. The Deceptive Words of Parmenides' "Doxa" 312
28. VI. Zeno of Elea
29. 15. Zeno and Indivisible Magnitudes 353
30. 16. The Tradition About Zeno of Elea Re-Examined 368
31. VII. Empedocles
32. 17. Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle in the 'Sixties 397
33. 18. Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles' Doctrine of the Soul 426
34. VIII. Anaxagoras and the Atomists
35. 19. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras 459
36. 20 Anaxagoras and the Concept of Matter Before Aristotle 489
37. 21 The Atomists' Reply to the Eleatics 504
38. Selective Bibliography (1974) 527
39. Indexes 543