By Kathryn A. Morgan
ISBN-10: 0521033284
ISBN-13: 9780521033282
This e-book explores the advanced dating among delusion and philosophy in writings by means of Greek intellectuals among the late-sixth and mid-fourth centuries BC. even if philosophy could appear some distance faraway from mythological tales, nearer exam finds that Plato and others learned that philosophic debts too have been "stories" approximately truth. Kathryn Morgan indicates how those philosophers used fantasy to precise philosophic difficulties. Her ebook lines a convention of strictly rational and philosophical delusion via centuries.
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It is important to differentiate claims to a new objectivity and rationality from the actual appearance of these qualities. Goody, for example, suggested that writing down epic texts led people to question their truth and to distinguish myth and history. We may still speak of a change in conceptual apparatus in dealing with the past, an idea that one should compare different versions from different informants in order to arrive at more accurate knowledge (although the content of the conclusion drawn will be influenced by ideology).
In addition, the deconstruction takes place, not between statements in the text, but between metalinguistic statements about the rhetorical nature of language and a practice that undermines these statements.
Writing not only enables the Presocratics to view their own discourse with greater objectivity; it presents them with texts of the poets Havelock : –. Havelock stresses how striking a proportion of the fragments of Herakleitos focus on human communication and the consciousness expressed in speech. Compare Adkins : . Textualisation and the rise of philosophy that had previously been transmitted by internalisation. Misgivings about epic theology and cosmology can be formalised, measured against a fixed object, and transmitted to a new generation of intellectuals.
Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato by Kathryn A. Morgan
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