Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy
Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy

Author: Jennifer Lobo Meeks

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 3838214250

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Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines 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 achieve clarity 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 simultaneously to move beyond mythos and express the whole in terms of logos, a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows.

The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy

Author: Daniel W. Graham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1035

ISBN-13: 0521845912

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This two-part volume collects the complete fragments and most important testimonies for the leading presocratic philosophers. The Greek and Latin texts are translated on facing pages and accompanied by a brief commentary for each philosopher.

Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle
Greek and Roman Philosophy After Aristotle

Author: Jason L. Saunders

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0684836432

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A concise selection from the standard philosophical works written after the death of Aristotle to the close of the third century, which includes the writings of seminal figures from early Christian thought. Eminent scholar Jason Saunders shows how philosophers from the Hellenistic Age greatly influenced early Christian teachings.

Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought

Author: Seaford Richard Seaford

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1474411002

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From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred - independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world.

The Anatomy of Myth
The Anatomy of Myth

Author: Michael W. Herren

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 019060669X

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The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.

History of Philosophy Volume 2
History of Philosophy Volume 2

Author: Frederick Copleston

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2003-06-12

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780826468963

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Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.

Allegory Studies
Allegory Studies

Author: Vladimir Brljak

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1000403726

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Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, cultural, and period-based divides, from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future, and from the rich variety of its cultural and artistic manifestations to its deep cognitive roots. Allegory is everything we already know it to be: a mode of literary and artistic composition, and a religious as well as secular interpretive practice. As this volume attests, however, it is much more than that—much more than a sum of its parts. Collectively, the phenomena we now subsume under this term comprise a dynamic cultural force which has left a deep imprint on our history, whose full impact we are only beginning to comprehend, and which therefore demands precisely such dedicated cross-disciplinary examination as this book seeks to provide.