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Meeks Jennifer Lobo - Allegory In Early Greek Philosophy - Paperback
Meeks Jennifer Lobo - Allegory In Early Greek Philosophy - Paperback
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Description: Allegory in Early Greek Philosophyexamines 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 achieveclarity 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 simultaneouslyto move beyondmythosand express the whole in terms oflogos a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows.
Title: Allegory In Early Greek Philosophy
Author(s): Meeks Jennifer Lobo
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783838214252
Pages: 150 Pages
Publication Date: 10/20/2020
Category: Philosophy
Description: Allegory in Early Greek Philosophyexamines 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 achieveclarity 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 simultaneouslyto move beyondmythosand express the whole in terms oflogos a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows.
Title: Allegory In Early Greek Philosophy
Author(s): Meeks Jennifer Lobo
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783838214252
Pages: 150 Pages
Publication Date: 10/20/2020
Category: Philosophy
