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Single Idea 12036

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy ]

Full Idea

Xenophanes begins a long concern with knowledge and its grounds.

Gist of Idea

Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge

Source

Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Intro)

Book Ref

Annas,Julia: 'Ancient Philosophy: a very short introduction' [OUP 2000], p.-2

A Reaction

Having that on his cv ought to make Xenophanes more famous than he is.

The 7 ideas with the same theme [philosophy up to 410 BCE]:

5988 Anaximander produced the first philosophy book (and maybe the first book) [Anaximander, by Bodnár]
3060 Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
24146 All the major problems were formulated before Socrates [Nietzsche]
2900 I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche]
12036 Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas]
20455 Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley]
21355 The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]