With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the
thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem situations, and
that in following this principle we may further our understanding of the Presocr
atics and other thinkers of the past. The essays also try to show the greatness
of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philosophy, its science, an
d its humanism.' - Karl Popper, from the preface The World of Parmenides is a br
illiant exploration of the complexity of ancient Greek thought and science by on
e of the twentieth century's leading philosophers. It reveals the great importan
ce of Presocratic philosophy to Popper's thought as a whole and shows the profou
nd enlightenment he experienced reading not only Parmenides but the wider world
of Greek science and philosophy including Xenophanes and Heraclitus.
