Introduction: Toward a Sociology of Philosophical Culture -- 1. Presocratic Thought and the Origins of Western European Reflection -- 2. Thales and the Origins of Ionian Cosmology -- 3. Anaximander's Cosmos -- 4. Anaximenes' Pneumatology -- 5. The Pythagorean Form of Life -- 6. Heraclitus, Logologists: The Reflexive Cosmos of Heraclitus -- 7. Eleatic Ontology From Xenophanes to Parmenides and Beyond -- 8. Pluralists: Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the Beginnings of Greek Atomism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-496) and indexes.