Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

Gadamer considers the beginning of philosophy in presocratic thought.

About the Author

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

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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