The Beginning of Knowledge

The Beginning of Knowledge

by Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Beginning of Knowledge

The Beginning of Knowledge

by Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Overview

In The Beginning of Knowledge, Gadamer reminds us that philosophy for the Greeks was not just a question of metaphysics and epistemology but encompassed cosmology, physics, mathematics, medicine, and the entire reach of theoretical curiosity and intellectual mastery. Whereas his book The Beginning of Philosophy dealt with the inception of philosophical inquiry, this new book brings together nearly all of Gadamer's previously published but never translated essays on the Presocratics. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments (1974 and 1990), he then moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists (1935) and the Presocratic cosmologists (1964). In the last two essays (1978 and 1994/95), Gadamer elaborates on the profound debt that modern scientific thinking owes to the Greek philosophical tradition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826411952
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/01/2001
Pages: 150
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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 Philosophy and Truth and Method.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface7
Author's Preface13
1.On the Tradition of Heraclitus21
2.Heraclitus Studies33
3.Ancient Atomic Theory82
4.Plato and Presocratic Cosmology102
5.Greek Philosophy and Modern Thought119
6.Natural Science and the Concept of Nature127
Publication History141
Index142
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