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
Gadamer considers the beginning of philosophy in presocratic thought.
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.
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.
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