Andr'e Laks: the Presocratic as the term of historiography of the ancient philosophy

Building upon a previous contribution by the same author [ΣΧΟΛΗ 6.2 (2012) 434–449] the article deals with the scholarly discussions about the terms designed to embrace the early Greek philosophers. It concern with two recent publications by a French classicist André Laks. Remaining within the tradition of the use of the term «Presocratics» A. Laks limits its scope and recognizes as the ‘Presocratic’ only those ancient Greek philosophers of the 6th–5th centuries BC who studied Nature.