About nature
About nature ( ancient Greek περὶ φύσεως perì phýseōs ) is the title of numerous philosophical works. It was first used by the Greek natural philosophers ( pre-Socratics ) and is used again and again in later times in open allusion to this usage. Well-known works with this title exist from:
- Parmenides
- Anaxagoras
- Lucretius
- Aristotle
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , see Nature (essay)
- Norbert Elias