The Presocratic Philosophers; Thales to Zeno; Empedocles to Democritus
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xiv, [2], 3-378; [4], v-x, [2], 3-353, [1] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spines. Halton and O'Leary 320. Barnes, a respected scholar on Ancient Philosophy, gives a rigorous and precise exposition on the arguments of the Pre-Socratics, and explains how their work created the foundations of Western Philosophy. Difficult to find in the first edition, this is a classic and informative text on the pre-Socratics, founders of the Western philosophical tradition. Very near Fine / Near Fine. Item #000014290
Textblocks with slight toning; jacket's spine panels gently sunned and the front flap of volume one's jacket is corner-clipped.
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