PDF FOR THE UKEMI AUDIOBOOKS RECORDING OF EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY The Pre-Socratics

BY JOHN BURNET

RECORDED BY JONATHAN BOOTH FOR UKEMI AUDIOBOOKS CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The Cosmological Character of Early 8. Motion and Rest Greek Philosophy 9. The Secular Character of Ionian 2. The Traditional View of the World Science 3. Homer 10. Alleged Oriental Origin of Philosophy 4. Hesiod 11. Egyptian Mathematics 5. Cosmogony 12. Babylonian Astronomy 6. General Characteristics of Greek 13. The Scientific Character of the Early Cosmology Greek Cosmology 7. Physis 8. Schools of Philosophy

CHAPTER I. THE MILESIAN SCHOOL

1. Miletus and Lydia 16. The Primary Substance is Infinite 2. Origin 17. The Innumerable Worlds 3. The Eclipse Foretold by Thales 18. “Eternal Motion” and the Dinê 4. Date of Thales 19. Origin of the Heavenly Bodies 5. Thales in Egypt 20. Earth and Sea 6. Thales and Geometry 21. The Heavenly Bodies 7. Thales as a Politician 22. Animals 8. Uncertain Character of the Tradition 23. The Life of Anaximenes 9. The Cosmology of Thales 24. His Book 10. Water 25. Theory of the Primary Substances 11. Theology 26. Rarefaction and Condensation 12. The Life of 27. Air 13. Theophrastus on Anaximander’s 28. The World Breathes Theory of the Primary Substance 29. The Parts of the World 14. The Primary Substance is Not One of 30. Innumerable Worlds the Elements 31. Influence of Anaximenes 15. ’s Account of the Theory

2 CHAPTER II. SCIENCE AND RELIGION

32. Ionia and the West 47. The Figures 33. The Delian Religion 48. Triangular, Square and Oblong Numbers 34. Orphicism 49. Geometry and Harmonics 35. Philosophy as a Way of Life 50. Incommensurability 36. Relation of Religion and Philosophy 51. Proportion and Harmony 37. Character of the Tradition 52. Things Are Numbers 38. Life of Pythagoras 53. Cosmology 39. The Order 54. The Heavenly Bodies

40. Downfall of the Order 55. Life of Xenophanes 41. Want of Evidence as to the Teaching 56. Poems of Pythagoras 57. The Fragments 42. Transmigration 58. The Heavenly Bodies 43. Abstinence 59. Earth and Water 44. Akousmata 60. Finite or Infinite 45. Pythagoras as a Man of Science 61. God and the World 46. Arithmetic 62. Monotheism or Polytheism

CHAPTER III. OF EPHESUS

63. Life of Heraclitus 74. Sleeping and Waking 64. His Book 75. Life and Death 65. The Fragments 76. The Day and the Year 66. The Doxographical Tradition 77. The Great Year 67. The Discovery of Heraclitus 78. Did Heraclitus Teach a General Confla- 68. The One and the Many gration? 69. Fire 79. Strife and “Harmony” 70. Flux 80. Correlation of Opposites 71. The Upward and Downward Path 81. The Wise 72. Measure for Measure 82. Theology 73. Man 83. Ethics of Heraclitus

CHAPTER IV. OF ELEA

84. Life of Parmenides 90. The Beliefs of “Mortals” 85. The Poem 91. The Dualist Cosmology 86. “It Is” 92. The Heavenly Bodies 87. The Method of Parmenides 93. The Stephanae

88. Parmenides, the Father of Materialism 94. The Goddess 89. General Characteristcs of Greek 95. Physiology Cosmology 96. Alcmaeon of Croton

3 CHAPTER V. EMPEDOKLES OF AKRAGAS

97. Pluralism 109. Mixture and Separation 98. Date of 110. The Four Periods 99. Empedocles as a Politician 111. Our World the Work of Strife 100. Empedocles as a Religious Teacher 112. Formation of the World by Strife 101. Rhetoric and Medicine 113. The Sun, Moon, Stars, and Earth 102. Relation to Predecessors 114. Organic Combinations

103. Death 115. Plants 104. Writings 116. Evolution of Animals 105. The Remains 117. Physiology 106. Empedocles and Parmenides 118. Perception 107. The “Four Roots” 119. Theology and Religion 108. Strife and Love

CHAPTERCHAPTER VI. OF KLAZOMENAI

120. Date 129. The Portions 121. Early Life 130. Seeds 122. Relation to the Ionic School 131. “All Things Together” 123. Anaxagoras at Athens 132. Nous 124. The Trial 133. Formation of the Worlds 125. Writings 134. Innumerable Worlds 126. The Fragments 135. Cosmology 127. Anaxagoras and His Predecessors 136. Biology 128. “Everything in Everything” 137. Perception

CHAPTER VII. THE PYTHAGOREANS

138. The Pythagorean School 146. The Numbers as Magnitudes 139. Philolaus 147. The Numbers and the Elements 140. and the Pythagoreans 148. The Dodecahedron 141. The “Fragments of Philolaus” 149. The Soul a “Harmony”

142. The Problem 150. The Central Fire 143. Aristotle on the Numbers 151. The Antichthon 144. The Elements of Numbers 152. The Harmony of the Spheres 145. The Numbers Spatial 153. Things Likenesses of Numbers

4 CHAPTER VIII. THE YOUNGER ELEATICS

154. Relation to Predecessors 163. Motion 155. Life of Zeno 164. Life of Melissus 156. Writings 165. The Fragments 157. Dialectic 166. Theory of Reality 158. Zeno and 167. Reality Spatially Infinite 159. What Is the Unit? 168. Opposition to Ionians 160. The Fragments 169. Opposition to Pythagoreans 161. The Unit 170. Opposition to Anaxagoras 162. Space

CHAPTER IX. LEUKIPPOS OF MILETUS

171. and 16. The Eternal Motion 172. Theophrastus on the Atomic Theory 17. The Weight of the Atoms 173. Leucippus and the Eleatics 18. The Vortex 174. Atoms 19. The Earth and the Heavenly Bodies 175. The Void 20. Perception 176. Cosmology 21. Importance of Leucippus 177. Relation to Ionic Cosmology

CHAPTER X. ECLECTICISM AND REACTION

184. The “Bankruptcy of Science” 189. Cosmology 185. Moisture 190. Animals and Plants 186. Date of Diogenes of Apollonia 191. Anaxagoreans 187. Writings 192. Cosmology 188. The Fragments 193. Conclusion

5 NOTE ON THE SOURCES

A. PHILOSOPHERS II. BIOGRAPHICAL DOXOGRAPHERS 1. Plato 13. Hippolytus 2. Aristotle 14. The Stromateis 3. Stoics 15. “Diogenes Laertios” 4. Skeptics 16. Patristic Doxographies 5. Neoplatonists C. BIOGRAPHERS B. DOXOGRAPHERS 17. Successions 6. The Doxographi Graeci 18. Hermippos 7. The “Opinions” of Theophrastus 19. Satyros 8. Doxographers 20. “Diogenes Laertios” I. DOXOGRAPHERS PROPER 9. The Placita and Stobaeus D. CHRONOLOGISTS 10. Aetios 21. Eratosthenes and Apollodoros 11. The Vetusta Placita 12. Cicero

THE READER

Jonathan Booth has been a narrator and voiceover for over 30 years, working for a huge variety of broadcasters and brands across all media, from hundreds of BBC and National Geographic documentaries to thousands of corporate films to the voice of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. In his spare time he enjoys philosophy and cricket.

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