pre‐Socraticの英語

語源

pre- +‎ Socratic

名詞

Presocratic (複数形 Presocratics)

1. Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:

     The Great Mother is no simple notion from primitive religion, but an idea in a complex mythology that became demythologized and secularized by the Presocratics, but not changed.

語源

pre- +‎ Socratic

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: prē'sŏkrăʹtĭk, IPA^(key): /ˌpɹiːsɒˈkɹætɪk/

形容詞

pre-Socratic (not comparable)

1. (historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).

名詞

pre-Socratic (複数形 pre-Socratics)

1. (historical) Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5^th century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 97:

     Hers is the philosophy that stood before the speculations of the presocratics; she is the "Holy Mother Church" which Descartes challenged when he cut the umbilical cord between philosophy and the Church and split reality into the res externa and the res cogitans.