The Origins of Philosophy: Its Rise in Myth and the Pre-Socratics - A Collection of Early Writings - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0391032178 ISBN 13 : 9780391032170

Editeur : Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S., 1984

Synopsis

Book by Drew A Hyland

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dr. Drew A. Hyland traces the origins of philosophy from its earliest roots in Babylonian and Homeric-Hesiodic mythology to its flowering in the Pre-Socratic imagination. Using selections from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Hesiod, Homer, Pythagoras, Zeno, Plato, and Socrates, to name but a few, Dr. Hyland argues against what he calls the "historical approach" to the origin of philosophy. In Hyland's view the differentiation of the human self from notions of God and nature may rightly be called the origin of philosophy. The book's skilled intermingling of original source material, with commentaries by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, among others, and the author's own thought-provoking introduction, provides an invaluable study of this fascinating period in human intellectual development.

Biographie de l'auteur

Drew A. Hyland, Ph.D. is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy and the chair of the philosophy department at Trinity College in Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0391032178
• ISBN 13: 9780391032170
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Éditeur: Hyland Drew A.
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