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Atomcu Felsefe Fragmanları
Leukippos (MÖ V. yüzyıl): Sokrates öncesi felsefe ekollerinden Atomcu Felsefe’nin kurucu figürü olan Leukippos’un hayatı hakkında bilinenler çok azdır. Gerçekten yaşayıp yaşamadığı antik dünyada bile tartışma konusu olmuştur. Diogenes Laertius’tan bir alıntıda Hermarkhos gibi Epikuros’un da Leukippos adlı bir filozofun yaşamadığını düşündüğü söylenir, bununla birlikte ona dair alıntılar daha fazladır. Milet’te yaşadığı, Demokritos’un hocası olduğu kabul edilir.
Demokritos (yaklaşık MÖ 460-370): Birçok kaynakta Abderalı olarak anılmıştır. Atomcu Felsefe ve evrenin atom teorisinin gelişiminde merkezi bir yer işgal eder. Temel konularda hocası Leukippos’un izinden giden Demokritos, onun teorisini daha kuşkucu ve daha az tümdengelimci bir yöntemle ele alıp geliştirmiştir. Doğu’da çok seyahat etmiş, Mısır, Persia, Hindistan ve Babil’de birçok şey öğrenmiştir. Demokritos etik konulara da ilgi duymuş ya da kendisinden sonraki yazarlar ona bazı etik fragmanların atfedilmesini garipsememiştir. Atomcu Felsefe Fragmanları, daha sonra Epikurosçu fiziğe ve materyalist felsefeye zemin hazırlayan bu felsefe ekolünün temsilcilerine ve onların kabul veya reddedilişlerine dair tüm erken dönem yazılı kaynakları Türkçeye aktarma amacını taşımaktadır.
Demokritos (yaklaşık MÖ 460-370): Birçok kaynakta Abderalı olarak anılmıştır. Atomcu Felsefe ve evrenin atom teorisinin gelişiminde merkezi bir yer işgal eder. Temel konularda hocası Leukippos’un izinden giden Demokritos, onun teorisini daha kuşkucu ve daha az tümdengelimci bir yöntemle ele alıp geliştirmiştir. Doğu’da çok seyahat etmiş, Mısır, Persia, Hindistan ve Babil’de birçok şey öğrenmiştir. Demokritos etik konulara da ilgi duymuş ya da kendisinden sonraki yazarlar ona bazı etik fragmanların atfedilmesini garipsememiştir. Atomcu Felsefe Fragmanları, daha sonra Epikurosçu fiziğe ve materyalist felsefeye zemin hazırlayan bu felsefe ekolünün temsilcilerine ve onların kabul veya reddedilişlerine dair tüm erken dönem yazılı kaynakları Türkçeye aktarma amacını taşımaktadır.
216 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 441
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October 19, 2019
"Her şey zorunluluktan..." Atomcu felsefeyi böyle özetliyorum. Her şey düşeceği yere düşer, materyal olarak atom evrenin zorunlu oluşumuna katılarak varlığı meydana getirir. Atomcu felsefe sondan başa doğru giderek oluşu açıklar, buna göre var olan, başka türlü olması mümkün olmadığı için, o şekilde vardır.
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November 10, 2022Bazı şeyleri çok önceden, yalnızca düşünerek keşfetmiş olmaları büyük bir dehanın ürünü.
February 4, 2020
Sokrates öncesi filozoflardan, doğa düşünürlerinden ve ilginç şekilde "Atom"un isim babaları yaşadığına emin olunan Demokritos ve yaşayıp yaşamadığı belli olmayan, Demokritos'un hocası Leukippos'un diyalogları, yazıları ve onlar hakkındaki lehte, aleyhte görüşler. Diğer felsefecilerin Fragmanlar'ının tersine oldukça detaylı, zor anlaşılabilecek anekdotlar var. Bir noktada devam etmek için ciddi konsantrasyon harcadım.
February 17, 2020
Of the presocratics who take us from myth to natural philosophy, the atomists most resonate with modern science. Their ethical fragments are also fun.
April 14, 2021
Democritus ve Leukippos ile ilgili tüm yazılı kaynakları barındırması sebebiyle alanında araştırma yapacaklara ışık tutacak değerli bir eser olan "Atomcu Felsefe Fragmanları", Sokrates öncesindeki atomcu felsefeye güzel bir bakış açısı sağlıyor. Zamanına rağmen oldukça yerinde argümanların bulunduğu eseri okurken zaman zaman gerçekten etkileniyorsunuz.
09.04.2021
Londra, Birleşik Krallık
Alp Turgut
09.04.2021
Londra, Birleşik Krallık
Alp Turgut
January 6, 2020
This is a wonderful collection of the works from the atomists Leucippus and Democritus, though as you may suspect with thinkers from the 5th century BCE, the works are mostly fragments of mentions from other great thinkers and philosophers from later centuries. As such, you get used to the idea that frequently the ideas will be treated as a vital component to a hagiography or simplistic ramblings that are easily dispensed with. It's refreshing to see that even so vital a think as Aristotle could be guilty of the latter as many people think this reductionist disputation is a recent development.
Anyway, the editors of this text are to be commended in that they organize these fragments quite well, keeping this from seeming like an encyclopedia of every mention of atomism and making it a focused text on the reception and development of atomist thought on a myriad of topics. The extensive commentary to close this collection, which covers some 80 pages by itself, is worth the price of the book alone. This Phoenix collection of the works of the Presocratics seems to be in very good hands and this would make a great addition to collections of layman readers such as myself, or as a supplement to a course even tangentially related to this matter. Some favorite quotes to end this quick review:
"By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour; but in reality atoms and void."
"Education is an adornment in good fortune and a refuge in misfortune."
"One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely that he who is held back from wrongdoing by law will err in secret, but that he who is urged to what he should by persuasion will do nothing wrong either in secret or openly. Therefore he who acts rightly from understanding and knowledge proves to be at the same time courageous and right-minded."
Anyway, the editors of this text are to be commended in that they organize these fragments quite well, keeping this from seeming like an encyclopedia of every mention of atomism and making it a focused text on the reception and development of atomist thought on a myriad of topics. The extensive commentary to close this collection, which covers some 80 pages by itself, is worth the price of the book alone. This Phoenix collection of the works of the Presocratics seems to be in very good hands and this would make a great addition to collections of layman readers such as myself, or as a supplement to a course even tangentially related to this matter. Some favorite quotes to end this quick review:
"By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour; but in reality atoms and void."
"Education is an adornment in good fortune and a refuge in misfortune."
"One will seem to promote virtue better by using encouragement and persuasion of speech than law and necessity. For it is likely that he who is held back from wrongdoing by law will err in secret, but that he who is urged to what he should by persuasion will do nothing wrong either in secret or openly. Therefore he who acts rightly from understanding and knowledge proves to be at the same time courageous and right-minded."
May 18, 2024
It actually fucking blows how much work was lost throughout time.
May 18, 2026
Pretty solid, I found a lot of Democritus' ideas conceptually interesting even if when you follow them logically they lead you to have to assume some pretty wild conclusions. He was likely on the money in denying the senses and attempting to create a whole theory through a priori logical reasoning, and I like the view of his work being in opposition to Zeno's paradoxes. In the actual fragments I found Democritus' writing often pretty rhetorically strong, you can tell he's really considering language, and I found the commentator very even-handed and thorough in his elucidation of the fragments.
It's been a while since I finished it, so this review is just going off memory, but I discuss the book a little more in my review on my youtube channel if you'd like to watch B) daws_online
It's been a while since I finished it, so this review is just going off memory, but I discuss the book a little more in my review on my youtube channel if you'd like to watch B) daws_online
April 26, 2026
"Brave is not only he who masters the enemy but also he who / masters pleasures. Some are lords of cities but slaves of women."
"Nature and teaching are closely related. For teaching / reshapes the person and by reshaping makes his nature."
"For what will there be
that escapes the division? . . . Now since such a body is everywhere
divisible, let it be divided. What, then, will be left? A magnitude?
But that cannot be. For there will be something that has not been
divided, whereas we supposed that it was everywhere divisible."
"For tragedy and comedy come to be out of the same letters."
"In reality we know nothing, for truth is in the depths."
"Nature and teaching are closely related. For teaching / reshapes the person and by reshaping makes his nature."
"For what will there be
that escapes the division? . . . Now since such a body is everywhere
divisible, let it be divided. What, then, will be left? A magnitude?
But that cannot be. For there will be something that has not been
divided, whereas we supposed that it was everywhere divisible."
"For tragedy and comedy come to be out of the same letters."
"In reality we know nothing, for truth is in the depths."
April 6, 2019
A really fine scholarly source of primary texts on the early atomists. Unlike many such compendiums there is a rather good explication of the fragments in the second half wherein the conflicts presented by the fragments are delved into.
September 26, 2023
Just not a fan of fragments or the price.
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