The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays - Brossura

Cornford, F. M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521094445 ISBN 13: 9780521094443

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1967

Riassunto

This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular interest in the field of Greek thought. In the essay that gives the collection its title Cornford develops the two complementary themes which run through much of his writing: the effects of individual style and human character which must be reckoned with in reconstructing a philosopher's system from fragments or interpreting a complete philosophic work; and the influence of abstract schemes of conception which the philosopher assumes within his cultural tradition. These themes recur in essays discussing Pythagoras, Hesiod and Plato. Cornford's enthusiasm for his subject will communicate itself to any reader. In the memoir of Cornford which accompanies the essays Professor W. K. C. Guthrie describes the Hellenic qualities of Cornford's writing: 'the living symmetry of form, the grace and delicacy of the details, the humour, irony and occasional fantasy enlivening a fundamentally serious theme'.

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This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular interest in the field of Greek thought. The volume includes essays discussing Pythagoras, Hesiod and Plato, in which Cornford's enthusiasm for his subject will communicate itself to any reader.

Contenuti:

Memoir; Note; 1. The unconscious element in literature and philosophy (1921); 2. The harmony of the spheres (1930); 3. The unwritten philosophy (1935); 4. Plato's commonwealth (1935); 5. The doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium (1937); 6. Greek natural philosophy and modern science (1938); 7. A ritual basis for Hesiod's Theofony (1941); 8. The Marxist view of ancient philosophy (1942); Appendix: a list of Cornford's publications on classical subjects (excluding reviews).

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0521094445
• ISBN 13: 9780521094443
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160