The Beginning of Philosophy by Hans-Georg Gadamer (English) Paperback Book

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In The Beginning of Philosophy Gadamer explores the layers of interpretation and misinterpretation that have built up over 2500 years of Presocratic scholarship. Using Plato and Aristotle as his starting point his analysis moves effortlessly from Simplicius and Diogenes Laertius to the 19th-century German historicists right through to Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger. Gadamer shows us how some of the earliest philosophical concepts such as truth, equality, nature, spirit and being came to be and how our understanding of them today is deeply indebted to Presocratic thinkers. The book is based on a series of lectures delivered by Gadamer in 1967 which were then translated into English and edited by Gadamer for this collection. This is a major philosophical-historical work from one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was a celebrated and influential continental philosopher. He spent the majority of his teaching career at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he became emeritus professor in 1968. He is the author of The Beginning of Knowledge and Truth and Method.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface1. The Meaning of Beginning2. Hermeneutic Access to the Beginning3. Solid Ground: Plato and Aristotle4. Life and Soul: The Pbaedo5. The Soul between Nature and Spirit6. From the Soul to the Logos: The Theatetusand the Sophist7. Aristotle's Doxographical Approach8. Ionic Thinking in Aristotle's Physics9. Parmenides and the Opinions of the Mortals10. Parmenides and BeingIndex

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These ten lectures on the pre-Socratic beginnings of philosophy, by one of the world's greatest living philosophers, were originally delivered in Italian at the Naples Institute for the Study of Philosophy in 1988....Directed to a general university audience, they reflect Gadamer's lively and engaging style. He takes major topics in Plato and Aristotle--reason, opinion, nature, spirit, and being--and traces them back to their pre-Socratic antecedents, especially Parmenides' Way of Truth. A careful and accurate translation of a lively, engaging, and accessible series of lectures on pre-Socratic philosophy. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *

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These ten lectures on the pre-Socratic beginnings of philosophy, by one of the world's greatest living philosophers, were originally delivered in Italian at the Naples Institute for the Study of Philosophy in 1988....Directed to a general university audience, they reflect Gadamer's lively and engaging style. He takes major topics in Plato and Aristotle--reason, opinion, nature, spirit, and being--and traces them back to their pre-Socratic antecedents, especially Parmenides' Way of Truth. A careful and accurate translation of a lively, engaging, and accessible series of lectures on pre-Socratic philosophy. Highly recommended.

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Gadamer considers the beginning of philosophy in Presocratic thought.

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Traces the origins of philosophical thought in the western tradition

Details ISBN1474294464 ISBN-10 1474294464 ISBN-13 9781474294461 Format Paperback Pages 128 Series Bloomsbury Revelations Short Title BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY Language English Media Book DEWEY 182 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-10-20 UK Release Date 2016-10-20 NZ Release Date 2016-10-20 Edited by Claire Webster Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Author Hans-Georg Gadamer Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience General AU Release Date 2016-10-19 We've got this

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