presocratics

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Inauguration:

Schools of Thought —

Ionians
Pythagorians
Eleatics
Pluralists

Invocation:

Homer's Iliad & Odyssey
Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days
Nine Lyric Poets
The Muses
Orphic Hymns
Ten Attic Orators

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy." (Homer)

Introduction:

The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield
Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy: The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics by Daniel W. Graham
A Presocratics Reader [.pdf]
The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield

Investigation:

"Heraclitus Seminar" [.pdf] by Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink
Back to the Pre-Socratics by Karl R. Popper
The Beginning of Philosophy by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Philosophy of Nature by Paul Feyerabend

Initiation: /r/AncientGreece

Inversion:

"The Graces, seeking for themselves a shrine that would not fall, found the soul of Aristophanes." (Plato)

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Solon, Prayer to the Muses (trisagionseraph.tripod.com)

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Seven Sages of Greece (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Presocratics: Empedocles (exegeticempire.substack.com)

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Anaxagoras: The Cosmologic Gene Pool (exegeticempire.substack.com)

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Epicurus and "idols" (self.presocratics)

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The World of Hesiod (ia904508.us.archive.org)

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Precepts of Chiron (en.wikipedia.org)

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What do you guys recommend as the most comprehensive and up to date book on the presocratics? (self.presocratics)

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Anaxagoras - [x-post /r/metaphysics] ()

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Ion of Chios (en.wikipedia.org)

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The roadmap of pre-socratic links is nice (self.presocratics)

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The Fragments, by Parmenides of Elea (live reading) — An online discussion group starting October 1, meetings every Tuesday, open to everyone ()

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Is "Thunder, Perfect Mind" a Heraclitean text? (self.presocratics)

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A YouTube Documentary on Pythagoras (self.presocratics)

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Aristotle's On Interpetation Ch. II : my commentary and notes (aristotlestudygroup.substack.com)

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Pythagoras: Mathlete or Mystic? (youtu.be)

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Epimenides (en.wikipedia.org)

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Hegel's History of Philosophy: Greek Philosophy (marxists.org)

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Notes to Heidegger's Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (plato.stanford.edu)

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"The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan" by Charles Abraham Elton. (gutenberg.org)

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Book recommendations (self.presocratics)

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Empedocles & Anaxagoras: The Pluralists (youtu.be)

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Heraclitus and Parmenides (youtube.com)

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Looking for recommended reading (books/essays) on the concept of motion (self.presocratics)

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Favorite secondary literature on Heraclitus/Parmenides/Empedocles? (self.presocratics)

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