John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy

This text is a reprint of the 3rd edition of John Burnet's famous study of Presocratic philosophy, Early Greek Philosophy, originally published in 1920. The spelling has been modernized throughout. To make the text compatible with Internet search engines, Greek names have been Latinized to their common forms and Greek characters have been transliterated to Latin.

A. Introduction
B. Note on the Sources
1. The Milesian School
2. Science and Religion
3. Heraclitus of Ephesus
4. Parmenides of Elea
5. Empedocles of Acragas
6. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
7. The Pythagoreans
8. The Younger Eleatics
9. Leucippus of Miletus
10. Eclecticism and Reaction