Audiobook: The First Philosophers by Robin Waterfield

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1945/Title: The First Philosophers Author: Robin Waterfield Narrator: Adrian Hobart Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins Release date: 09-12-23 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings Genres: Professionals & Academics Publisher's Summary: 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's enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western world was introduced to metaphysics, rationalist theology, ethics, and logic.