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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

For the pre-philosophical conceptions of human nature,
see Hermann Fränkel, Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen
Griechentums,
2nd ed. (Munich, 1962), and idem, Wege und
Formen frühgriechischen Denkens,
2nd ed. (Munich, 1960),
esp. pp. 23-35; Bruno Snell, Die Entdeckung des Geistes,
3rd ed. (Hamburg, 1955); trans. T. G. Rosenmeyer as The
Discovery of the Mind
(Cambridge, Mass., 1953), esp. Chs.
I, III, VII, and VIII; E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the
Irrational
(Berkeley, 1951), esp. Chs. I-II; an excellent sum-
mary with fuller references in J. Mansfeld, Die Offenbarung
Des Parmenides und die menschliche Welt (Assen, 1964), Ch.
I, pp. 1-41.

Fragments of the early philosophical writings are quoted
from Diels and Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 7th ed.,
2 vols. (Berlin, 1954). For secondary literature see the refer-
ences in W. K. C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy,
Vol. I. (Cambridge and New York, 1962), and Vol. II
(Cambridge and New York, 1965). For the Sophists, see
Guthrie, Vol. III (1969) and Werner Jaeger, Paideia, trans.
Gilbert Highet (New York, 1939), I, 286-331. See also: Felix
Heinimann, Nomos und Physis (Basel, 1945); W. K. C.
Guthrie, In the Beginning (Ithaca, N.Y., 1957); Thomas Cole,
Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology (Cleve-
land, 1967), with full bibliography. For Thucydides see
Hans-Peter Stahl, Thukydides. Die Stellung des Menschen
im geschichtlichen Prozess
(Munich, 1966).

CHARLES H. KAHN

[See also Cultural Development in Antiquity; Historiog-
raphy, Influence of Ideas on Ancient Greek; Macrocosm
and Microcosm; Platonism.]