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The Philosophic Spirit: Its Meaning and Presence

By Donald Phillip Verene

Book information

Publisher
ibidem-Verlag Jessica Haunschild / Christian Schon GbR
Year
2023
ISBN
3838277813, 9783838277813
Google Books ID
LDb3zwEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3394525 bytes)
Pages
\147
Time added
2024-05-21 15:43:02

Description

The philosophic spirit has persisted as part of the human spirit and human culture for over twenty-five centuries. This book presents examples of this spirit from its beginnings in Greek thought through the modern age. Among these examples are an account of Empedocles jumping into the volcano of Mt. Etna to join the gods, Plato's quarrel with the poets, St. Anselm's famous argument for the existence of God, Descartes's Archimedean proof of his own existence, and Kant's description of the perfect island of the Understanding. Attention is also given to Cassirer's concept of symbolic forms and Whitehead's theory of actual entities. The volume concludes with a discussion, based on the thought of Giambattista Vico, of a way to approach philosophy through a balance between the Ancient and the Moderns.

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