Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0906112117
Muthos for Logos
James Taylor
Muthos For Logos
Muthos For Logos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Muthos For Logos book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Logos and Muthos
William Wians
Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438427430
Logos and Muthos by William Wians Pdf
Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
Plato the Myth Maker
Luc Brisson
Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226075192
Plato the Myth Maker by Luc Brisson Pdf
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Piety and Politics
Dale Launderville
Author : Dale Launderville
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802845054
Piety and Politics by Dale Launderville Pdf
Ancient kings who did not honor the gods overlooked an indispensable means for ruling effectively in their communities. In many traditional societies royal authority was regarded as a divine gift bestowed according to the quality of the relationship of the king both to God or the gods and to the people. The tension and the harmony within these human and divine relationships demanded that the king repeatedly strive to integrate the community's piety with his political strategies. This fascinating study explores the relationship between religion and royal authority in three of history's most influential civilizations: Homeric Greece, biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia. Dale Launderville identifies similar, contrasting, and analogous ways that piety functioned in these distinct cultures to legitimate the rule of particular kings and promote community well-being. Key to this religiopolitical dynamic was the use of royal rhetoric, which necessarily took the form of political theology. By examining a host of ancient texts and drawing on the insights of philosophers, poets, historians, anthropologists, social theorists, and theologians, Launderville shows how kings increased their status the more they demonstrated through their speech and actions that they ruled on behalf of God or the gods. Launderville's work also sheds light on a number of perennial questions about ancient political life. How could the people call the king to account? Did the people forfeit too much of their freedom and initiative by giving obedience to a king who symbolized their unity as a community? How did the religious traditions serve as a check on the king's power and keep alive the voice of the people? This study in comparative political theology elucidates these engaging concerns from multiple perspectives, making Piety and Politics of interest to readers in fields ranging from biblical studies and theology to ancient history and political science.
Mythos and Logos
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004493377
Mythos and Logos by Anonim Pdf
This book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient Greeks. As concepts fundamental to human experience, Mythos and Logos continue to guide the search for truth in the twenty-first century.
Plato and Myth
Catherine Collobert,Pierre Destrée,Francisco J. Gonzalez
Author : Catherine Collobert,Pierre Destrée,Francisco J. Gonzalez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004224360
Plato and Myth by Catherine Collobert,Pierre Destrée,Francisco J. Gonzalez Pdf
This volume seeks to show how the philosophy of Plato relates to the literary form of his discourse. Myth is one aspect of this relation whose importance for the study of Plato is only now beginning to be recognized. Reflection on this topic is essential not only for understanding Plato’s conception of philosophy and its methods, but also for understanding more broadly the relation between philosophy and literature. The twenty chapters of this volume, contributed by scholars of diverse backgrounds and approaches, elucidate the various uses and statuses of Platonic myths in the first place by reflecting on myth per se and in the second place by focusing on a specific myth in the Platonic corpus.
Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas
Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400717305
Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas by Georgios Anagnostopoulos Pdf
This volume contains outstanding studies by some of the best scholars in ancient Greek Philosophy on key topics in Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought. These studies provide rigorous analyses of arguments and texts and often advance original interpretations. The essays in the volume range over a number of central themes in ancient philosophy, such as Socratic and Platonic conceptions of philosophical method; the Socratic paradoxes; Plato's view on justice; the nature of Platonic Forms, especially the Form of the Good; Aristotle's views on the faculties of the soul; Aristotle's functionalist account of the human good; Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian views on the nature of desire and its object. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient philosophy and classics.
Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy
Lawrence J. Hatab
Author : Lawrence J. Hatab
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786613998
Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy by Lawrence J. Hatab Pdf
Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the “first” world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language. Common distinctions between mind and world, fact and value, cognition and affect miss the meaning-laden dimension of embodied, practical existence, where language and life are a matter of “dwelling in speech.” In this second volume, Hatab supplements and fortifies his initial analysis by offering a detailed treatment of child development and language acquisition, which exhibit a proto-phenomenological world in the making. He then takes up an in-depth study of the differences between oral and written language (particularly in the ancient Greek world) and how the history of alphabetic literacy shows why Western philosophy came to emphasize objective, representational models of cognition and language, which conceal and pass over the presentational domain of dwelling in speech. Such a study offers significant new angles on the nature of philosophy and language.
The Subject of Philosophy
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Author : Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816616981
The Subject of Philosophy by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Pdf
"The Subject of Philosophy" presents a sustained examination of the relation between literature and philosophy with special emphasis on the problem of the subject and of representation. Spanning the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and addressing such major moments in the history of literature as Greek tragedy and German romanticism, The book repeatedly raises the question whether philosophy's very attempts to distinguish itself from literature are not conditioned and exceeded by a fundamental inextricability of the two. In these readings, Lacoue-Labarthe focuses on such issues as the nature of fiction and of figurative language, the fate of the "work", the status of the author, the question of madness, and the definition of gender. He broaches as well the analysis of mimesis, the most important concept of his later work and one that already gives to his persistent aesthetic preoccupations an ethical and political resonance. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe is the author of many books, including "Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics", "Heidegger, Art and Politics", and, with Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Literary Absolute". This book is intended for those in the fields of literary theory, philosophy.
The Gift of Logos
David Jones,Michael Schwartz,Jason M. Wirth
Author : David Jones,Michael Schwartz,Jason M. Wirth
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443818254
The Gift of Logos by David Jones,Michael Schwartz,Jason M. Wirth Pdf
The Continental tradition has always placed great emphasis on the Logos. The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Philosophy celebrates and situates this emphasis in the genre of the gift and its giving. The process of receiving, or giving, of the gift overcomes the existential alienation and separation that is so present in the human condition. To ritualize giving and its gifting is to provide a syntax of solidarity that bespeaks our desire for cohesion and need for identities beyond our own. To give a gift is to befriend. The gift of logos is more than a gift from the gods and goddesses; it is an act of giving for those friends of wisdom—for those philosophers who give to each other and to their worlds and receive the blessings of logos from each other. The increasing objectification of human being has mobilized a regressive narcissism that shows the ego’s reassertion in the light of the meaningless quantifying forces from without. By not reflecting deeply enough upon its conditions of existence in the modern world and on its orginary moments, philosophy itself has not been immune from this besotted sense of self. Although not an invective against thinking nor against modern and contemporary philosophy’s genuine advances, The Gift of Logos portends to shed the delusion that theoretical re-description is somehow the same as transforming who we are. This transformation is our greatest gift to each other. To give it voice is the gift of Logos and what this collection of essays commemorates.
Greek Myth
Lowell Edmunds
Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110696202
Greek Myth by Lowell Edmunds Pdf
This volume provides a guide to research in the field of Greek Myth, introducing the main questions, theories and methods related to the study of Greek Myth today. The author points out, with critical reappraisal, the key themes and ideas in recent scholarship and makes suggestions for future lines of study. Aimed at students and scholars in Classics, it will also be of interest to larger audiences in the Humanities.
Deep Economy
Hans-Dirk van Hoogstraten
Author : Hans-Dirk van Hoogstraten
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Deep ecology
ISBN : 0227679652
Deep Economy by Hans-Dirk van Hoogstraten Pdf
Both true and false notions of connection exist in society and in the human imagination. In this work, economic and ecological claims of supposed connectedness are compared on a profound level. Starting with an historical analysis of the ethical and economic thought of Aristotle and Adam Smith, the two main representatives of the first and second waves of Enlightenment, this discussion clarifies the value of the term 'deep economy'. Concern about current ecological problems often confronts us with the history, theories, and experiences of natural and spiritual connectedness. This book adds an indispensable factor. It urges us to take into serious account the actual state of economic affairs. Discussion of the clash between ecology and economy has long been avoided, due to the paralysis it threatens. Dr. Van Hoogstraten, however, searched for a paramount view, and found it in religion. In his in-depth discussion of the character of both ecology and economy, the hidden religious pretensions of both fields are uncovered. A merely moral approach to the economy's devastating effects is deemed ineffective: the author offers readers a perspective beyond good and evil. The adoption of this Nietzschean approach he calls 'facing the fate'. Exposing unexplored, forgotten treasures in Jewish wisdom, Deep Economy lays out a possible way to proceed towards a new connectedness. He confronts us with the necessity of rethinking conceptions of life and death, sex and birth, wealth and work. He convincingly questions and explores hidden places, both in society as a whole and in human imagination, where basic decisions concerning living together are made. Unlike established economic thought, Deep Economy leads us through global economy's aspects of exclusion and enrichment, of curse and blessing, to the author's unique world-view presented in this book. Call it a provoking textbook for class discussion, a talking piece for politicians and political scientists, a philosophical work for economists, an interpretative study for theologians and philosophers to work with - or call it Deep Economy.
Myth and Philosophy
Frank Reynolds,David Tracy
Author : Frank Reynolds,David Tracy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791404188
Myth and Philosophy by Frank Reynolds,David Tracy Pdf
The first volume in a new series generated by a multiyear project at the U. of Chicago Divinity School. Twelve essays (all but two are edited versions of papers presented at one of six semi-annual conferences) address the nature of religion, the nature of philosophy, and their relationships. Several argue that the philosophy of religions should be global in its orientation, comparative in its approach, and grounded in the empirical study of religious traditions. Others deal with historical data, shifting from the discussion of theoretical and methodological issues. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A History of Western Philosophy of Education in Antiquity
Avi I. Mintz
Author : Avi I. Mintz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350074439
A History of Western Philosophy of Education in Antiquity by Avi I. Mintz Pdf
This volume traces the history of Western philosophy of education in Antiquity. Between the fifth century BCE and the fifth century CE, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, and others raised questions about the nature of teaching and learning, the relationship of education and politics, and the elements of a distinctively philosophical education. Their arguments on these topics launched a conversation that occupied philosophers over the millennia and continues today. About A History of Western Philosophy of Education: An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of education, this five-volume set that traces the development of philosophy of education through Western culture and history. Focusing on philosophers who have theorized education and its implementation, the series constitutes a fresh, dynamic, and developing view of educational philosophy. It expands our educational possibilities by reinvigorating philosophy's vibrant critical tradition, connecting old and new perspectives, and identifying the continuity of critique and reconstruction. It also includes a timeline showing major historical events, including educational initiatives and the publication of noteworthy philosophical works.
Logoi and Muthoi
William Wians
Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438474908
Logoi and Muthoi by William Wians Pdf
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander's calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought.
