The emergence of ontological styles of thinking in ancient Greece /

"This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450–350 bc. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by emergent styles of ontological thinking at this time, about issues of being and becoming, of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy, Duncan F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2025.
Series:Classics in theory.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • On the coming into being of things: a field guide to historical ontology
  • Parmenides differentiates ‘is'-being
  • Protagoras and democritus: how are ‘am/we'-being and ‘is'-being related?
  • Creating viewpoints
  • Plato reorients ‘theory'
  • Plato abducts geometry
  • Lines of inquiry: spatializing thought
  • Man measures.