Die Prinzipienlehre der Milesier: Kommentar zu den Textzeugnissen bei Aristoteles und seinen Kommentatoren

This study analyzes the reception oftheories of the "first principle"of Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes (7th-6th century BC)by Aristotle and his commentators of the 2nd through 14th centuries AD. It includes a detailed discussion of 120 texts documenting this fascinating and, for the modern image of the Milesians, fundamental Wirkungsgeschichte of the earliest philosophical ideas of Europe.