The Origins Of Greek Thought
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Author | : Jean-Pierre Vernant |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801492938 |
Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis. Vernant points out that when the focus of Mycenaean society gave way to the agora, the change had profound social and cultural implications. "Social experience could become the object of pragmatic thought for the Greeks," he writes, "because in the city-state it lent itself to public debate. The decline of myth dates from the day the first sages brought human order under discussion and sought to define it.... Thus evolved a strictly political thought, separate from religion, with its own vocabulary, concepts, principles, and theoretical aims."
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.
Author | : William Dameron Guthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacob Klein |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0486319814 |
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521294201 |
The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
Author | : Jack Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2021-04-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Jack Connor concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Jack Connor claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis. Connor points out that when the focus of Mycenaean society gave way to the agora, the change had profound social and cultural implications. "Social experience could become the object of pragmatic thought for the Greeks," he writes, "because in the city-state it lent itself to public debate. The decline of myth dates from the day the first sages brought human order under discussion and sought to define it. Thus evolved a strictly political thought, separate from religion, with its own vocabulary, concepts, principles, and theoretical aims."
Author | : W. T. Stace |
Publisher | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1775418561 |
Virtually every aspect of the modern Western worldview has its roots in the remarkably diverse body of philosophy that emerged from a small patch of land in the Mediterranean thousands of years ago. This volume offers an overview of the highlights of ancient Greek philosophy, as well as an historical account of the lives of many of the scholars and thinkers who helped shaped it.
Author | : William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521294218 |
The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
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.
Author | : Gerard Naddaf |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791483673 |
In The Greek Concept of Nature, Gerard Naddaf utilizes historical, mythological, and linguistic perspectives to reconstruct the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of phusis. Usually translated as nature, phusis has been decisive both for the early history of philosophy and for its subsequent development. However, there is a considerable amount of controversy on what the earliest philosophers—Anaximander, Xenophanes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, and Democritus—actually had in mind when they spoke of phusis or nature. Naddaf demonstrates that the fundamental and etymological meaning of the word refers to the whole process of birth to maturity. He argues that the use of phusis in the famous expression Peri phuseos or historia peri phuseos refers to the origin and the growth of the universe from beginning to end. Naddaf's bold and original theory for the genesis of Greek philosophy demonstrates that archaic and mythological schemes were at the origin of the philosophical representations, but also that cosmogony, anthropogony, and politogony were never totally separated in early Greek philosophy.