The Beginning of Philosophy

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Bloomsbury Publishing
20 October 2016

Philosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Series: Bloomsbury Revelations

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.

By: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 159g
ISBN: 9781474294461
ISBN 10: 1474294464
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 20 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Translator's Preface 1. The Meaning of Beginning 2. Hermeneutic Access to the Beginning 3. Solid Ground: Plato and Aristotle 4. Life and Soul: The Pbaedo 5. The Soul between Nature and Spirit 6. From the Soul to the Logos: The Theatetusand the Sophist 7. Aristotle's Doxographical Approach 8. Ionic Thinking in Aristotle's Physics 9. Parmenides and the Opinions of the Mortals 10. Parmenides and Being Index

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.

Reviews for The Beginning of Philosophy

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 *