系列：牛津世界经典
亚里士多德说，哲学始于奇迹，最早的西方哲学家发展了世界理论，这些理论同时表达了他们的奇迹感和他们的直觉，即世界应该是可理解的。但他们的事业绝不局限于这项原始科学任务。例如，通过赫拉克利特的神秘格言、巴门尼德和恩佩多克利斯的诗歌，以及芝诺的悖论，西方世界被现代模式中的思想家、哲学家或科学家引入了形而上学、理性主义神学、伦理和逻辑。智者们对人类及其在世界上的地位的反思，引发了人们对语言、政治、道德和社会哲学的兴趣。
这本书包含了前苏格拉底派和诡辩派的所有最重要片段的翻译，以及来自古代来源的信息最丰富的证词，并辅以清晰的评论。
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
Series: Oxford World’s Classics
Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus’ enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno’s paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic, by thinkers who often seem to be mystics or shamans as much as philosophers or scientists in the modern mould. And out of the Sophists’ reflections on human beings and their place in the world arose and interest in language, and in political, moral, and social philosophy.
This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources, supplemented by lucid commentary.
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