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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Robin Waterfield (Translator), Robin Waterfieldrobin Waterfield, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-953909-X / 019953909X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953909-3 / 9780199539093 The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their |