The cosmic fragments / Heraclitus ; edited with an introduction and commentary by G.S. Kirk.

By: Heraclitus, of Ephesus
Contributor(s): Kirk, G. S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1921-2003
Material type: TextTextLanguage: enggrc Publisher: London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1970Edition: [3rd impression]Description: xv, 423 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0521052459Subject(s): Philosophy, Ancient | Cosmology -- Early works to 1800DDC classification: 182.4
Contents:
Index of Fragments; Note on the Second Impression; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: I. The Date of Heraclitus, II. The Life of Heraclitus, III. The Ancient Evidence on Heraclitus' Thought; The Cosmic Fragments: Group 1-12; Epilogue; General index; Index of passages.
Summary: This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk's method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought.
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Text in Greek and English; introduction and commentary in English.

"First edition 1954; reprinted with corrections 1962; reprinted 1970 [with note on the 3rd impression; reprinted again] 1975".--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Index of Fragments; Note on the Second Impression; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: I. The Date of Heraclitus, II. The Life of Heraclitus, III. The Ancient Evidence on Heraclitus' Thought; The Cosmic Fragments: Group 1-12; Epilogue; General index; Index of passages.

This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk's method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought.

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