From Religion to Philosophy : : A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation /

From Religion to Philosophy : : A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation / / Francis MacDonald Cornford.

In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers," F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C. emerged directly from the religious thought of the preceding era in Greece. Combining profound cl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Cornford, Francis MacDonald,
MitwirkendeR:
Ackerman, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1992
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • I. DESTINY AND LAW
  • II. THE ORIGIN OF MOIRA
  • III. NATURE, GOD, AND SOUL
  • IV. THE DATUM OF PHILOSOPHY
  • V. THE SCIENTIFIC TRADITION
  • VI. THE MYSTICAL TRADITION
  • Index of Citations
  • General Index

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