Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pre-Socratic? Here are some examples.
Examples from Classical Literature
Many, if not all the elements of the pre-Socratic philosophy are included in the Timaeus.
The universal tendency of the pre-Socratic philosophy is to find some principle for the explanation of nature.
He is never able to reconcile the first causes of the pre-Socratic philosophers with the final causes of Socrates himself.
Moreover, Thales propounded the problem, and determined the direction and character, of all pre-Socratic philosophy.
For of all the pre-Socratic philosophers, he speaks of them with the greatest respect.
A few words must be said of the sources of our knowledge of pre-Socratic philosophy.
Haeckel's system is mainly poetico-mythical, chiefly on the lines of some of the pre-Socratic philosophers.
The myth of Janus likely was founded on the writings of the pre-Socratic philosophers.
For Santayana, as the pre-Socratic philosophers had contended, the universe constitutes a single, continuous, and mechanical flux of matter.
He explores the ideas of the pre-Socratic and classical Greek philosophers and their intellectual milieu, but also later Roman stoics.
Rustow traced this viewpoint to deism and beyond it to a mystical pre-Socratic Greek belief in a harmonious universe.
Already between the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers Parmenides and Heraclitus there was a debate about the ultimate form of reality.
In this context, the author refers to the pre-Socratic philosophers, who thought with their bodies, by walking, by connecting with the physical reality that surrounded them.
It was expressed in a metaphor centuries ago by the Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus.
