Full name: The Great Philosophers: Democritus

Author: Paul Cartledge Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

Democritus c. 460-c. 370BC The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': throughout the modern philosophical tradition, Democritus has been a man little known beyond his labels. Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded - loses sign of the man in the hyperbole. Flattering as it is, it fails to do justice either to the full range of Democritus' interests or to the astonishing originality of his ideas. For Democritus' remarkable investigations took him far beyond the realms of physics and chemistry to explore the science of existence as a whole. Perception, selfhood and society; ethic, politics and the law: as Paul Cartledge's enthralling introduction makes clear, Democritus has much to teach us, in all these fields and more. Similar books: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Relationship by Jiddu Krishnamurti Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein Musashi's Book of Five Rings by Stephen F. Kaufman Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Tara Smith The Warrior Within by John Little Nietzsche and Zen by Andre van der Braak Luhmann Explained by Hans-Georg Moeller Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis Nothing Matters by Ronald Green The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt The Death of God and the Meaning of Life by Julian Young A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy by Stephen P. Schwartz How to Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille