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PREFACE xi
ABBREVIATIONS xv
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 1
I. CONCEPT STUDIES
1. Nous, Noein, and their Deriveatives in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (Excluding Anaxagoras) Kurt von Fritz 23
2. Qualitative Change in Pre-Scratic Philosophy W. A. Heidel 86
II. IONIAN BEGINNINGS
3. Anaximander's fragment: The Universe Governed by Law Charles H. Kahn 99
4. Xenophanes' Empiricism and His Critique of Knowledge (B 34) hermann Fränkel 118
III. PYTHAGORAS AND PYTHAGOREANISM
5. Mysticism and Science in the Pythagorean Trandition F. M. Cornford 135
6. Pythagorean Philosophy before Plato Charles H. Kahn 161
IV. HERACLITUS
7. Natural Change in Heraclitus G. S. Kirk 189
8. Flux and Logos in heraclitus W. K. C. Guthrie 197
9. A Thought Pattern in heraclitus Hermann Fränkel 214
10. Oaradox, Simile, and Gnomic Utterance in Heraclitus Uvo Hölscher 229
V. PARMENIDES
11. Elements of Eleatix Ontology Montgomery Furth 241
12. Plato and Parmenides on the Timeless Present G.E. L. Owen 271
13. The Relation between the Two Parts of Parmenides' Poem Karl Reinhardt 293
14. The Deceptive Words of Parmenides' "Doxa" Alexandr P. D. Mourelatos 312
VI. ZENO OF ELEA
15. Zeno and Indivisible Magnitudes David J. Furley 353
16. The Tradition about Zeno of Alea Re-Axamined Friedrich Solmsen 368
VII. EMPEDOCLES
17. Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle in the 'Sixties A. A. Long 397
18. Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles ' Doctrine of the Soul Charles H. Kahn 426
VIII. ANAXAGORAS AND THE ATOMISTS
19. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras Gregory Vlastos 459
20. Anaxagoras and the Concept of Matter before Aristotle G. B. Kerferd 489
21. The Atomists' Reply to the Eleatics David J. Furley 504
SELECTIVE BIBLIGOGRAPHY 527
INDEXS
i. Ancient Texts 543
ii. Personal Names 547
iii. Glossary and Index of Greek Words Discussed 549
iv. Subject Index 554
NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS 560