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Greek Thought
| Author | : Jacques Brunschwig |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1084 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674002616 |
In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought, investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the possibilities of knowing. 65 color illustrations. Maps.
Early Greek Thought
| Author | : James Luchte |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2011-06-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 144115616X |
Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the 'Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology is dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an 'indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the 'origins' of 'Western', 'Occidental' philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, James Luchte excavates the context of emergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely 'children'. Luchte discloses 'philosophy in the tragic age' as a creative response to a 'contestation' of mytho-poetic narratives and 'ways of being'. The tragic character of early Greek thought is unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille, in the 'absence of myth' and the exile of poetry.
Becoming God
| Author | : Patrick Lee Miller |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2011-01-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1847061648 |
A lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to weave together philosophical thought on God, reason and happiness.
Money and the Early Greek Mind
| Author | : Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2004-03-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780521539920 |
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.
Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy
| Author | : Jennifer Lobo Meeks |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2020-10-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3838214250 |
Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines the role that allegory plays in Greek thought, particularly in the transition from the mythic tradition of the archaic poets to the philosophical traditions of the Presocratics and Plato. It explores how a mode of speech that "says one thing, but means another" is integral to philosophy, which otherwise seeks to achieve clarity and precision in its discourse. By providing the early Greek thinkers with a way of defending and appropriating the poetic wisdom of their predecessors, allegory enables philosophy to locate and recover its own origins in the mythic tradition. Allegory allows philosophy simultaneously to move beyond mythos and express the whole in terms of logos, a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows.
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
| Author | : Seaford Richard Seaford |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2016-07-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1474411002 |
From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred - independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.
Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought
| Author | : Stephanie Holton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781032229485 |
This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited. It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early Hippocratic medical writers developed theories which drew from wider investigations into physiology and psychology, the natural world and the self, while also engaging with wider literary depictions and established cultural beliefs. Although the focus is predominantly on Presocratic and Hippocratic ideas, this is not exclusive: attention is devoted from the outset to sleep and dreams in Homer and the mythic tradition, as well as to depictions across lyric, drama, and historiography. Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought provides a fascinating study of this topic which will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient medicine and the history of science, Greek philosophy, and classical culture more broadly. It is accessible to students with or without knowledge of the classical languages, and also to anyone with a general interest in the beliefs of the classical world.
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
| Author | : A. A. Long |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 1999-06-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521446679 |
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Early Greek Science
| Author | : G E R Lloyd |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2012-09-30 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1448156718 |
In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most concern us today: the interplay between economic factors and politics, the struggle to find a balance between the state and the individual, the role of the intellectual. Most of the books in this series centre on the great focal periods, those of great literature and art: the world of Herodotus and the tragedians, Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Caesar, Virgil, Horace and Tacitus. This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and economic setting of Greek science; he analyses the motives and incentives of the different groups of writers.
