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Review: Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet

Nature and the Nation

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Platonism and the Platosocracy

Prisocratics come from a world that is deeply mythological, t there's a religious world view. Any sort of mythological or religious content in the presocratic sophers is just brushed aside as being tangental to their project. I am convinced that this can only be made good by a fresh interpretation in detail of the platonic dialogues. O ka, so basically he says, first of all, a new thing came into the world with the early ionian teachers and that was science.

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