Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of WisdomAlbert A. Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, Lech Witkowski This is a valuable book, jam-packed with learning and insight, cosmopolitan in scope, timely yet classically anchored. An achievement of intellectual beauty. This is how I like to see philosophy conducted. Robert Ginsberg Director, The International Center for the Arts, Humanities, and Value Inquiry. 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. |
Contents
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THREE | 19 |
FOUR | 35 |
FIVE | 61 |
Cephalus Choice | 83 |
Conclusion | 94 |
A Case | 97 |
The Dynamic | 115 |
TEN Heraclitus Logos as a Paradigm of the Human | 163 |
ELEVEN Logos and Mythos | 175 |
TWELVE On the Strange Relation between Heroic Socrates | 189 |
Between Self and Nature | 205 |
The Value | 221 |
FIFTEEN Zhuangzis Way of Thinking through Fables | 237 |
About the Contributors | 255 |
Philosophy | 141 |
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Achilles aesthetic allegory ancient Apollinian appears argument ascetic ideal beauty Birth of Tragedy boundless excursion butterfly Cartesian cave Cephalus claims concept consciousness context culture death Descartes Descartes's dialectic dialogue Dio Chrysostom Dionysian Dionysus discourse disruptive distinction divine dream duality Editors essay Ethics example exists experience feeling fragment Friedrich Nietzsche G. W. F. Hegel Glaucon Greek happy and boundless heart/mind Hegel Heidegger Helen Heraclitus Homer human Ibid ideas imagination interpretation kind knowledge language living love of wisdom Martin Heidegger means Mengzi metaphor metaphysical moral mystery myth mythos and logos nature object original parrhesia peng person perspective Plato poetic poets Polemarchus political question rational reason René Descartes Republic Schelling Schelling's sense Socrates soul speak Spirit story things thought tragic trans transformation translation true truth understanding Untimely Meditations values virtue volume in Philosophy Walter Kaufmann word writes Zhuangzi
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