Project Gutenberg 2022-01-03 Public domain in the USA. 505 Burnet, John 1863 1928 Burnet, Ioannes Burnet, Joannes 08034721 Early Greek philosophy $aUnited Kingdom :$bA. and C. Black,$c1908. Introduction -- The Milesian school -- Science and religion -- Herakleitos of Ephesos -- Parmenides of Elea -- Empedokles of Akragas -- Anaxagoras of Klazomenai -- The Pythagoreans -- The younger Eleatics -- Leukippos of Miletos -- Eclecticism and reaction -- Appendix: The sources. KD Weeks, Steven Rowland, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Early Greek Philosophy" by John Burnet is a scholarly account of ancient Greek philosophical thought written in the late 19th century. The work explores the evolution of philosophical ideas and cosmological theories from the early Greek thinkers, particularly focusing on how their inquiries laid the groundwork for subsequent philosophical developments. The opening of the text introduces the cosmological character of early Greek philosophy, emphasizing that it arose from the breakdown of traditional views of the world and life. Burnet explains that the earliest philosophers were preoccupied with understanding nature and existence, as old maxims were challenged and replaced by rigorous inquiry. He sets the stage for a detailed examination of various schools of thought, beginning with the Milesian school and its notable figures, such as Thales, who began to systematize knowledge in an attempt to explain the universe's order and structure. Overall, the initial chapters highlight the shift from mythological explanations to rational inquiry that characterized this formative period of philosophical history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/burnetgreek00burnrich 20190202082943burnet 1908 GB Reading ease score: 70.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Philosophy, Ancient B Text Category: History - Ancient Category: Philosophy & Ethics 1347108 2025-07-26T12:18:51.315362 text/html 1269704 2024-10-18T17:59:35 text/html 563555 2025-07-26T12:19:15.704275 application/epub+zip 585256 2025-07-26T12:18:56.179343 application/epub+zip 541992 2025-07-26T12:18:53.779364 application/epub+zip 998594 2025-07-26T12:19:27.619235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 808059 2025-07-26T12:19:13.104300 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 764747 2022-09-30T07:12:33.505970 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 969057 2025-07-26T12:18:47.215482 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 949178 2024-10-18T17:59:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16793 2025-07-26T12:19:27.830200 application/rdf+xml 7948 2025-07-26T12:18:54.135370 image/jpeg 1742 2025-07-26T12:18:53.963373 image/jpeg 493497 2025-07-26T12:18:51.406380 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia