Heraclitus and Thales’ Conceptual Scheme: A Historical Study

Jerusalem Studies in
Religion and Culture

Editors

Guy Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

David Shulman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

VOLUME 23

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Heraclitus and Thales’
Conceptual Scheme:
A Historical Study

By

Aryeh Finkelberg

LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents

Preface ix
Sigla and Abbreviations XI

Questions of Method 1

PART 1
Heraclitus

1 Heraclitus: The Life and the Book 21

2 Fire: Want and Satiety 41

3 The Solstices of Fire 67

4 The Fugitive δαίμονες 84

5 Fighting Souls 104

6 Heraclitus and Other Teachers of Salvation 126

7 The One and the Many 146

8 The Mind that Is in Us 169

9 The Logos 189

Appendix 210

10 The Companions of Gods 216

PART 2
Thales and Pre-Platonic Thought

11 The Thaletan Conceptual Scheme 237

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12 The One 257

13 The One versus the Many 278

14 The Thaletan Conceptual Scheme and the Thaletan Tradition 302

Appendix: Marcus Aurelius’ Quotations 325

References 332
Modern Authors 375
Index nominum et rerum 384
Index locorum potiorum 395