Introduction -- Chapter 1. Detheologization -- Chapter 2. Insight by hindsight -- Chapter 3. Bothering the infinite -- Chapter 4. Anaximander's Fragment: another attempt -- Chapter 5. Anaximenes' Soul -- Chapter 6. Minima Parmenidea -- Chapter 7. Parmenides from right to left -- Chapter 8. Parmenides on sense perception in Theophrastus and elsewhere -- Chapter 9. Heraclitus on soul and super-soul -- Chapter 10. Alcmaeon and Plato on soul -- Chapter 11. The body politic -- Chapter 12. Aristotle on Anaxagoras in relation to Empedocles in Metaphysics A -- Chapter 13. "Das verteufelte Lastschiff" -- Chapter 14. Democritusw on poetry -- Chapter 15. Out of touch: Philoponus as a source for Democritus -- Chapter 16. The presocratic philosophers -- Chapter 17. Protagoras on epistemological obstacles and persons -- Chapter 18. Aristotle on Socrates' contributions to philosophy -- Chapter 19. Hermann Diels (1848-1922).
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The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld's Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander's cosmos, the status of Parmenides' human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus' atoms.