Philosophy before Socrates : an introduction with texts and commentary / Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

The sources of early Greek philosophy -- Hesiod and the beginnings of Greek philosophy and science -- Miletus in the sixth century -- Thales of Miletus -- Anaximander of Miletus -- Anaximenes of Miletus -- Xenophanes of Colophon -- The early Ionian achievement -- Pythagoras of Samos and the Pythagoreans -- Heraclitus of Ephesus -- Parmenides of Elea -- Zeno of Elea -- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae -- Empedocles of Acragas -- Melissus of Samos -- Fifth-century atomism: Leucippus and Democritus -- Diogenes of Apollonia -- Early Greek moral thought and the fifth-century Sophists -- The Nomos-Physis debate