A comprehensive guide to early Greek philosophy The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with the Presocratics, a group whose influence has been incalculable. These thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistemology, psychology, rhetoric and relativism, justice, and poetics. 1. The scope of early Greek philosophy A. A. Long 2. Sources Jaap Mansfeld 3. The beginnings of cosmology Keimpe Algra 4. The Pythagorean tradition Carl A. Huffman 5. Heraclitus Edward Hussey 6. Parmenides and Melissus David Sedley 7. Zeno Richard D. McKirahan Jr 8. Empedocles and Anaxagoras: responses to Parmenides Daniel W. Graham 9. The atomists C. C. W. Taylor 10. Rational theology Sarah Broadie 11. Early interest in knowledge J. H. Lesher 12. Soul, sensation, and thought Andr&#233 Laks 13. Culpability, responsibility, cause: philosophy, historiography and medicine in the fifth century Mario Vegetti 14. Rhetoric and relativism: Protagoras and Gorgias Paul Woodruff 15. Protagoras and Antiphon: Sophistic debates on justice Fernanda DeCleva Caizzi 16. The poetics of early Greek philosophy Glenn W. Most.